Science & Tech Quote by Kerry King

Kerry King’s bluntness isn’t accidental; it’s a genre signal. The line lands like a downpicked riff: abrasive, contemptuous of decorum, and designed to establish dominance over his own archive. He’s talking about leakage and half-formed ideas living online, but the real target is the fantasy that demos, outtakes, and scraps are sacred. In King’s world, they’re raw material. If a riff survives, it survives because it’s strong enough to be stolen back.

The profanity does two jobs. First, it frames the internet as an adversary - a chaotic distribution system that turns process into product and invites fans to treat every fragment as canon. Second, it asserts authorship through violation: not “we revised” or “we reworked,” but we took what was ours and aggressively repurposed it. That posture fits metal’s longstanding ethic of anti-sentimentality. Nothing is precious; everything is up for mutilation in service of impact.

There’s also a defensive edge under the swagger. By admitting they’ll cannibalize leaked songs for “new ones,” King collapses the distinction between eras and releases. He’s telling fans: don’t get attached to the bootleg narrative; the band will outpace it. The subtext is control - over the catalog, over expectations, over the idea that the internet gets to decide what counts as finished. It’s ugly language for a familiar creative truth: the riff is king, and it will be reincarnated until it hits hard enough to deserve a final form.