Slayer’s Kerry King No Fan of Anthrax’s ‘Bring the Noise’ Collaboration With Public Enemy
Slayer and Anthrax are touring together this fall and there's one song that Slayer's Kerry King is probably hoping isn't part of Anthrax's set list -- "Bring the Noise."
Anthrax's collaboration with Public Enemy broke down many a genre barrier at the time, melding the band's heavy rocking styles with the hip-hop icons' rhymes and beats. And while the track was deemed influential in the boom of the rap-rock and nu metal that would come later in the decade, it's just a song that never connected for King.
Speaking with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, King stated, "Oh, I hated it, and they know it. It's not a secret or I wouldn't tell you. They don't play it a lot when we play together. Maybe it's cycled out of their set."
The Slayer guitarist once had his own collaboration with a hip-hop artist, rapper Ice-T, but defended that decision. "We did something with Ice-T back in the '90s, but it wasn't a crossover song. It was still a thrash song because Ice-T love thrash," stated King. "When [the Judgment Night soundtrack] was brought up initially for us to do, I was like, 'Nah, man, I don't want to be part of some rap song.' Nothing against rap, I like rap. I just didn't want Slayer to do that. And that's when the idea of Ice-T came up. I said, 'Yeah, we can do that.'"
Slayer and Anthrax will tour into late October with fellow metal vets Death Angel. Dates for the run can be found here.
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