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Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:01 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
I see that IOMMI thing as an album... like a "project".

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:00 pm
by The Bill
Is Dave Matthew’s Band really a band?

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:11 pm
by FVBTVS

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:23 pm
by The Bill
FVBTVS wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:11 pm
No way in hell does Ozzy use, let alone know how to use social media. Is that his cunt ex-wife talking for him again?

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:50 pm
by Introvert
Alice Cooper

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:04 pm
by Toilet Fleet
The responsible thing to do is to make sure you're clearly a guy with a backing band: Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Tom Petty/Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello/Attractions, etc. If you're using a stage name there might be some wiggle room but I'm less forgiving if it's the whole-ass stage name (e.g., the band is Dio and not Ronnie James Dio)

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:29 pm
by Necrometer
yeah there are almost no bands where the name of the band is just the first/last on your birth certificate. this sets kerry king apart from Dio, Danzig, King Diamond, etc

I'm gradually accepting that kerry king is not a band, and never will be

BUT if 10 years later he's using that same logo of his name... that's something

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:01 pm
by Introvert
Pretty sure he’s just going with it and there won’t be a creative or flashy band name for future releases or tours. Why was he throwing picks out into the crowd on the final Slayer tour that had ‘Reborn’ printed on them? Was that what he was going to call his new band but found out later that it was already taken?

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:15 pm
by Introvert
Necrometer wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:29 pm BUT if 10 years later he's using that same logo of his name... that's something
10 years later, he’s gonna be creeping up on 70 years old. If he’s not doing unplugged acoustic versions of Spill The Blood and Seasons In The Abyss in hipster dive bars then I’ll be a bit bummed

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:31 pm
by Zerohero
Introvert wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:01 pm Pretty sure he’s just going with it and there won’t be a creative or flashy band name for future releases or tours. Why was he throwing picks out into the crowd on the final Slayer tour that had ‘Reborn’ printed on them? Was that what he was going to call his new band but found out later that it was already taken?
maybe he could call it KK's Slayer and tour with KK's Priest

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:11 am
by spacehamster
When I was a kid in Switzerland and nobody spoke English, a lot of us thought Judas Priest and Iron Maiden were the names of people because it's two words and we didn't know what they meant, so it had to be a person's name. That's what I got.

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:51 pm
by Toilet Fleet
Bernie and Fleetwood Mac are siblings

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:59 pm
by Warpsmasher
Only Abbath is real...

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:21 am
by Foot Foot

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:34 am
by the awesome Assassin
Hahaha

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:18 pm
by Introvert
Foot Foot wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:21 am
It’s not April Fools yet!!

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:35 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
Well. They were broken up for what? 5 years?
Not bad by rockstar standards

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:56 pm
by Introvert
They were one that I figured would stay gone. Inflation must have quickly eaten up Tom‘s retirement fund. Kind of sad that they make this announcement before KK‘s solo thing even played one show

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 4:13 pm
by Introvert
What is the payday for a headliner who is EXCLUSIVE! First show in X years! at Riot Fest? Wasn’t (Original) Misfits first show at Riot Fest?

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:11 pm
by kevin hash
The buzz around Kerry King's solo crap was non Existent so it stands to reason that Slayer would come back.

New album in 2025 and the only way it will be good is if Gary Holt writes the whole thing.

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:18 am
by Warpsmasher
Tom & Dave could just do it without him, would anybody really mind?

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:24 am
by postaddiction
Eight Bit Alien wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:35 pm Well. They were broken up for what? 5 years?
Not bad by rockstar standards
I came here to argue with you... "It's only been like 2-3." Then I looked it up. Their last show was in Nov. 30, 2019. Now I'm very confused as to how 2019 has become 5 years ago

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:29 am
by postaddiction
kevin hash wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:11 pm The buzz around Kerry King's solo crap was non Existent so it stands to reason that Slayer would come back.

New album in 2025 and the only way it will be good is if Gary Holt writes the whole thing.
Tom should place a blank sheet of tablature on a Ouija board and hold a seance with Hanneman to write the next album. Maybe even patch in Himmler and Goebbels for some solos

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:40 pm
by Necrometer
this thread got even dumber than i anticipated

damn, that "exclusive midwest performance" qualifier is looming large

Re: King Diamond is a band. Is Kerry King a band?

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:42 pm
by Necrometer
I changed my vote

kerry king is not a band

there was a chance, but this reunion squashed it

it also clicked that there are zero (metal) bands with the name of the band being the full, birth-certificate name of one of the main members