Slayer Forge On After Jeff Hanneman’s Death

Kerry King was recently interviewed by Rolling Sone and he talked about “the day after” Hanneman’s death and the plans of the band regarding recording music for the new album.
Are you going to use any Hanneman material on future recordings?
Jeff gave us – there was a song leftover from the last album that Jeff finished as an afterthought that was called “Piano Wire.” It wasn’t on the album because it wasn’t as good as the other songs. I knew Jeff as gonna work on the lyrics and get it done. He was always talking about reworking the song. When you try to make a song better, you pretty much have to deconstruct it to make it better. I know there are two other ones, which are incomplete things, which he had for 15 to 20 years. Those will come out. My big thing is that I don’t want people to say “Oh, that’s a bummer that this was Jeff’s last song.” I want people to say, “this is awesome that this was Jeff’s last song.”

How is the new album coming along?
I finished seven lyrically. I’ve done, like, 11 demos with Paul. There’s leftover Jeff stuff and my leftover stuff. There’s tons of stuff, we just have to record it. Hopefully we’ll record in January.

Do you have any song titles?
I don’t release song titles early because people might steal them!

What concepts do you address?
It’s gonna be the extension of World Painted Blood, like World Painted Blood was an extension of Christ Illusion. It will be what Slayer fans like, because that’s why Slayer fans like us.