SLAYER guitarist Kerry King and his solo band – drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer), bassist Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah), guitarist Phil Demmel (Machine Head), and vocalist Mark Osegueda (Death Angel) – are currently on tour in Australia, and on Tuesday (December 3) in Sydney, and tonight (December 4) in Melbourne, the band paid tribute to original IRON MAIDEN singer, Paul Di’Anno, by performing the Maiden classic, “Killers”.
Di’Anno passed away on October 21, and his manager, Stjepan Juras, revealed that Paul’s cause of death, as per his family, was “a tear in the sac around the heart.” Di’Anno was laid to rest in London, England on November 21.
Fan-filmed video of King and band performing “Killers” can be viewed below:
King and his band will hit the road for the twenty-eight date “North American Headline Tour 2025”. With MUNICIPAL WASTE as special guest and ALIEN WEAPONRY supporting, the tour is set to launch in San Francisco on January 15, and wrap at House of Blues in Las Vegas on February 22.
“Getting back on the road for the first time in five years wasn’t exactly like riding a bike, that’s for sure,” King acknowledged. “I’ve never had that much time off, but the first tours with my new band – in the UK and Europe, and then in America with LAMB OF GOD and MASTODON – were all total blasts. We’ll be headlining on this next tour, so we’re playing a longer set than we did with LAMB OF GOD and MASTODON. We’ve got a little bit of a learning curve, so will start rehearsing the first week of November. And we might put an extra Slayer song into the set and learn a cover song or two.”
