SLAYER guitarist Kerry King has named his second solo album: The End Of All Gods will be released on February 12, 2027 via Reigning Phoenix Music. The first single, "My War", drops on Tuesday, November 17, and a short teaser of the track is already circulating.
The record follows King's solo debut From Hell I Rise, which came out in May 2024 on the same label. The lineup is unchanged: DEATH ANGEL frontman Mark Osegueda on vocals, Phil Demmel (MACHINE HEAD, VIO-LENCE) on second guitar, Kyle Sanders (HELLYEAH) on bass and SLAYER's Paul Bostaph on drums. Josh Wilbur, who produced the debut and whom King has described as practically a sixth member of the band, is behind the desk again.
King has been talking the album up for months. Back in September we reported his comments on Brian Slagel's "100 Songs That Define Heavy Metal" podcast, where he called the new material "a wonderful extension of the first album" and singled out its intro as one of the best he has ever written. "It's a slam dunk. It's fucking crushing," he said, adding that his publicist would knock him out if he revealed much more.
As far back as 2025, King said he already had enough songs for a second record and had begun sending lyrics to Osegueda, who described the words to the first new song as "vicious". Asked by Rolling Stone Brasil whether he might lean further into punk, King said punk had been well covered on the debut — from "Everything I Hate About You" to "Two Fists" — and that the plan was simply to extend what From Hell I Rise started.
The band returned to the stage on July 4 at Summerfest in Milwaukee, its first show in nine months, stepping in as headliner after MEGADETH withdrew in April. According to the agency Independent Artist Group, which recently signed both SLAYER and King's solo band for representation outside the U.S. and Canada, a tour in support of The End Of All Gods will start in early 2027.