Limp Bizkit almost made Slayer’s Kerry King quit music
Limp Bizkit has been working on its sixth studio album—Stampede Of The Disco Elephants—for almost five years now, but surely we can all remember where we were when we first heard the majesty of “Nookie” back in 1999. Slayer guitarist Kerry King definitely remembers, because the sheer horror of Limp Bizkit’s popularity almost made him quite playing music altogether. As part of an interview with UDiscoverMusic (via Noisey), King explained that he got really jaded in the late ‘90s, and he just couldn’t wrap his head around how Fred Durst and his rowdy boys were so successful. “It affected me,” he said. “I didn’t want to play music. I thought, if this is the way that music’s going, then fuck this. I hate it.”