Creativity Quote by Kerry King

There is a very Kerry King kind of shrug embedded in this: the accidental canonization of a song that was never meant to carry the band’s flag. He’s talking like a working musician, not a mythmaker. The origin story isn’t romantic; it’s logistics. A track gets written for a WCW wrestling compilation - a piece of branded, disposable entertainment where aggression is the point and subtlety is basically a liability. “For that I thought it was good” is faint praise on purpose. It frames the song as functional: it did the job, it fit the brief, it hit hard enough to sit beside entrance themes and pyro.

Then comes the pivot: “And then we threw it on our record as well.” “Threw” is doing a lot of work. It’s anti-auteur language, a refusal to pretend that every album choice is sacred. The subtext is confidence bordering on contempt for gatekeeping: if it rips, it belongs, even if it started life as merch-adjacent content. King also nods to how porous the 90s metal ecosystem was - wrestling, label compilations, and “serious” albums feeding off the same audience appetite for spectacle.

The intent reads like demystification. He’s puncturing the fan fantasy that great songs arrive with grand purpose. Sometimes they’re commissioned, sometimes they’re convenient, sometimes they’re better than expected - and the real flex is admitting that without apologizing.