{"id":106759,"date":"2023-11-08T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106759"},"modified":"2023-11-08T19:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:27:14","slug":"kerry-king-new-band-project-announced-phil-anselmo-rumored-to-be-vocalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106759","title":{"rendered":"Kerry King &#8211; New Band Project Announced, Phil Anselmo Rumored To Be Vocalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">ex-<strong>SLAYER<\/strong>&nbsp;guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Kerry King<\/strong>\u2018s new musical venture will simply be titled \u2018<strong>Kerry King<\/strong>\u2018. While there\u2019s no official word yet on who else will be joining him in the project sans fellow&nbsp;<strong>Slayer<\/strong>&nbsp;alumni&nbsp;<strong>Paul Bostaph<\/strong>&nbsp;(drums), the logo for the project has newly been unveiled. The group\u2019s first show to be announced was confirmed earlier today November 8th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The band is booked to be headlining one of the side stages at the May 9th opening date of this year\u2019s \u2018<strong>Welcome To Rockville<\/strong>\u2018 festival. Further live dates are expected in the weeks and months to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/OIP-36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"266\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/OIP-36.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106770\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.781954887218045;width:575px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/OIP-36.jpg 474w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/OIP-36-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">As reported in the past,\u00a0<strong>Phil Anselmo<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>Pantera<\/strong>, etc. fame was once thought to be attached to the legendary thrash guitarist\u2019s new project, while rumors of the group being titled\u00a0<strong>Blood Reign<\/strong>\u00a0also circulated. Rumor going around is that Anselmo is<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=99623\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=99623\"> going to be fired by PANTERA<\/a> for the &#8216;racist outburst&#8217; he had at 2016 Dimebash when he blurted out &#8220;White Power&#8221; and flashed the Nazi salute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FKerryKingOfficial%2Fposts%2Fpfbid029YJLkMXb6yyjbypxQMeAPPxYvjsTaBDRCSQqtDut2Aqqf132efJWa5ytNrbPYB5Wl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><\/p><\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ex-SLAYER&nbsp;guitarist&nbsp;Kerry King\u2018s new musical venture will simply be titled \u2018Kerry King\u2018. While there\u2019s no official&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106759"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106772,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106759\/revisions\/106772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}