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AT THE GATES/PARADISE LOST Drummer To SLAYER's KERRY KING: 'Up Yours'

October 22, 2011

Swedish drummer Adrian Erlandsson (AT THE GATES, PARADISE LOST, CRADLE OF FILTH, BRUJERIA) has posted a photo on his Lockerz account of a bent bass drum beater along with the caption, "Up yours, Mr. King, soft hitters don't bend bass drum beaters!" The message appears to be a response to a 2002 interviewSLAYER guitarist Kerry King gave to Sweden's Close-Up Magazine in which Kerry spoke about SLAYER's then-uncertain drummer situation. When asked if SLAYER had considered any Scandinavian musicians for the position, King said, "I haven't seen a lot, but the only thing I've seen is a lot of soft hitters. Like the guy in CRADLE OF FILTH [referring to Adrian Erlandsson. Ed.], who used to play in THE HAUNTED. He hits like a [homophobic slur that rhymes with bag]! He hits everything, but he hits like a f*g. This is SLAYER; people expect more."

Erlandsson joined the world-renowned British gothic metal band PARADISE LOST in 2009.

Drum-cam footage of Adrian Erlandsson's July 22 performance with AT THE GATES at this year's edition of the Tuska open-air metal festival at Suvilahti in Helsinki, Finland can be seen below (courtesy of Pearl Drums Finland).

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