Former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo recently sat down with Revolver. The interview covered his life story, including why he left Slayer multiple times. Voted the greatest metal drummer of all time by Revolver readers, the drummer underlined if Slayer was to reunite, they should do it very carefully since they made a big deal about the band’s farewell tour. Lombardo said:
“I don’t even go down that path. I don’t see it ever happening. If they ever do decide to come back, they’re going to piss off a lot of fans because, man, they really hyped that farewell tour. They’re going to have to be very careful on how they approach that. But who cares? The fans will be happy regardless. So, I don’t even think about that.”
The farewell World tour was in 2018, 3 years after their final album’s release. And Kerry King is still angry about the decision. King said about the disbandment:
“Anger… what else? It was premature. The reason I say ‘premature’ is because my heroes from my childhood are still playing! I can still play, I still want to play, but that livelihood got taken away from me.”
The drummer thinks it can be risky to make fans angry, but there will be many happy fans too. Metal history is full of bands doing farewell tours and reuniting years later. People sometimes criticize the bands for inconsistency. But in the end, there is always a large group of fans who is happy their favorite band came back.
