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    KERRY KING

    Nov 11, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS: JOE DALY

    Before entering the history books as half of metal’s famed Big 4, Metallica and Slayer were a pair of feisty young upstarts, slogging it out on the Orange County club circuit, united in their disdain for hair metal and their commitment to making the fastest, heaviest music that the world had ever known. Slayer’s Kerry King looks back on those early days, and Metallica’s rise to the top of the heavy metal pantheon.

    When did you first meet Metallica?

    “I saw them in the Woodstock [The Woodstock Concert Theatre in Anaheim, California] before they were a Bay Area band. I saw them play with

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