Creativity Quote by Kerry King

Kerry King sounds less like he is talking about art than about traffic control: albums as objects that get "held" and "held up", tragedies as variables that "change the distribution". That choice of language is the tell. When a metal lifer starts speaking in logistics terms, you are hearing the collision between a scene built on immediacy and an industry that now moves at the speed of bottlenecks, PR cycles, and fragile supply chains. The gruff understatement ("I guess it was better") is classic King: no sentimentalizing the wait, just a pragmatic shrug that still carries irritation.

The phrase "our next record tragedy" does most of the emotional work. It implies a pattern - not a one-off mishap, but a tradition of bad timing and real-world loss shadowing releases. In a genre that has long flirted with catastrophe as imagery, King is pointing to actual catastrophe as a business constraint. The subtext is grimly funny: even when something improves (a two-month hold instead of worse), the band is already bracing for the next derailment, as if disaster is baked into the rollout plan.

Context matters: veteran acts like Slayer have careers measured in eras, not singles, yet they still depend on distribution networks and label calendars that can be disrupted by anything from manufacturing delays to internal band upheaval to deaths in the extended camp. King's sentence rambles, but that messiness reads as honesty - the exhausted realism of someone who has learned that control is mostly an illusion, even when the music is built to sound like pure force.