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In an interview published this week on uDiscover, Slayer frontman Kerry King spoke about the band in the 90s, and how the direction of music at the time depressed him:
“I was really tired for a while in the late 90s. I couldn’t understand why Limp Bizkit was so big. It affected me a lot. I didn’t want to play music. I thought, ‘If that’s where music is going, screw it all, I hate it.’ That’s why Jeff Hanneman wrote so much of our 98 album, “Diabolus In Musica,” which is a bit too funky for me.”
Last year King spoke about the same subject in Metal Hammer , commenting: “In particular, I didn’t like the direction music was taking, and I let myself be affected by it for the only time in my career, which was basically the 90s. I couldn’t understand why it was becoming popular and that made me sad. I had to forget about it and refocus, because it was depressing me.”