Kerry King headlined a show at House of Blues in Houston, Tx on February 13th, 2025 with support from Municipal Waste & Alien Weaponry on their twenty-eight date North American Headline Tour 2025. The tour is in support of King’s debut solo album From Hell I Rise.
King was born on June 3rd, 1964. He is considered one of the most recognizable and influential thrash metal guitarists of his generation.
For decades, Kerry has been the unmistakable guitar slinger in thrash metal gods Slayer. Though the band played the last date of their Final World Tour at the L.A. Forum back on November 30, 2019, ever since, KFK’s been writing music and figuring out how to do the one thing he loves the most – getting back out on the road and playing live. While COVID enforced a two-year “pause” on making that happen, King took advantage of the situation and wrote – a lot. His music and lyrics have been very intentional with song topics covering war (in particular, the Ukraine war that broke out in February 2022), women’s rights, and current American politics. Plus, there’s doomy stuff, punky stuff, spooky stuff, and definitely some of those Herculean speeds he’s known for playing.
Kerry enlisted some of the heaviest names in metal for his new band – vocalist Mark Osegueda (Death Angel), guitarist Phil Demmell (Machinehead, Vio-lence), Kyle Sanders on bass (Hellyeah), and Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph!
Osegueda speaking about “Shrapnel”:
“This song is about the atrocities of war. It was relevant then and it’s relevant now. This song is called ‘Shrapnel’.”
Highlights from this set were the explosive new singles “Residue” & “Shrapnel”, the two Iron Maiden covers “Purgatory” & ” Killers” and the five Slayer songs “Repentless“, “Disciple“, “At Dawn They Sleep“, “Raining Blood” & “Black Magic“. This new supergroup was very reminiscent to the legendary metal band Slayer. They might have called it a quits, but Kerry King is here to stay expressing how he plans to continue touring.
Osegueda speaking before they conclude their set:
“This is the last song of the day for us. We have one more fucking song to make a lasting impression on each other and unleash some fucking energy and pent up aggression with each other until we come back. Let’s get one fucking thing straight Houston, we will be back! So are you fucking ready for the challenge? Are you up for the fucking task? I need you to physically fucking prove it. I want to feel the ground fucking shake! Thank you for you energy. This one is a title track from the new record. This one’s called ‘From Hell I Rise’!”
Setlist:
- Where I Reign
- Rage
- Trophies of the Tyrant
- Residue
- Two Fists
- Idle Hands
- Repentless (Slayer song)
- Toxic
- Tension
- Everything I Hate About You
- Disciple (Slayer song)
- Purgatory (Iron Maiden song)
- Killers (Iron Maiden song)
- Crucifixation
- At Dawn They Sleep (Slayer song)
- Shrapnel
- Raining Blood (Slayer song)
- Black Magic (Slayer song)
- From Hell I Rise
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