Slayer’s ena gitarrist Kerry King har uttalat sig om både Jeff Hennerman’s läkningsprocess (- efter att ha blivit biten av en spindel) samt planerna på att släppa en EP under sommaren. Om Hennerman säger King, ”Jeff is… If you look at him, he looks fine. But playing the intricate things that we do, he’s not ready to do that. He doesn’t know if he has the stamina for an hour-and-fifteen-minute set. He can play any of the slower stuff and do it just like the record. But we made a name for ourselves, historically, for being good live, so we had to make the decision and say, ’You’ve gotta get better before you try to come back. If you come back, make it a special thing, not just an adequate thing.'”
Om planerna för den nya EP’n samt det kommande albumet säger King, ”The two new Slayer tracks are done, but they’re just not mixed. It’s like, do you put them out now or do you just wait for the full-length record to be done and include them as part of the final package? We’re gona finish the record September-October. So I, myself, would rather wait, because I don’t like to put those two songs out and then include them on the record. In my thinking, if you put those two songs out, then make ten more songs and put those two on that album just as an afterthought. But I feel like I’ve gotta give people ten new songs. That’s why on the last one 2009’s World Painted Blood we did 11, cause Psychopathy Red was already out. So the two new songs are done. We’ll see what the record company proposes. I think they’ve been talking about an EP, which is kind of a throwback to the ’80s, which is really cool, I think. But we’ll just have to see.”
