Slayer's Kerry King Reveals Limp Bizkit's Popularity In The 90's Made Him Want To Quit Music

While the days of Nu-Metal may be far behind us, some heavy metal purists are still recovering from when bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, and Staind dominated the charts. One of the greatest heavy metal guitarists, Slayer's Kerry King, revealed that the popularity of Limp Bizkit in the 90's depressed him so much he almost quit music.   

Slayer was not immune from the influence of Nu-Metal, and their 1998 album Diabolus in Musica was critically and publicly panned for their attempt to fit it with current trends. 

In an interview with UDiscover, King opened up about his hatred toward the hip-hop infused style of metal, saying that it almost made Slayer split up.

“I was really jaded for a while back in the late ’90s. I couldn’t understand why Limp Bizkit was big. It affected me – I didn’t want to play music. I thought, ‘If this is the way that music’s going, then f**k this, I hate it.’ That’s why Jeff Hanneman wrote so much of our 1998 album ‘Diabolus in Musica,’ which is too funky for me.”

While we would never say that Diabolus in Musica was "funky," the band luckily returned to their trademark thrash style in subsequent albums. 

Listen to Slayer's "Stain of Mind" off Diabolus in Musica below:

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