If there were a heavy metal Mount Rushmore, it’d be a safe bet that Kerry King’s spectacular bald bonce would be carved out somewhere close to the top. Demonic tattoo. Trailing goatee. Wraparound shades. The works. The Los Angeles native mightn’t be the most technical six-stringer in the genre’s history, nor the most diverse creative, but it’s hard to argue that he’s not one of the most consistently, charismatically badass. When he ceremoniously raised the heavy duty link-chain from his waistband to salute fans assembled at the Los Angeles Forum for Slayer’s ‘final’ farewell show on November 30, 2019, it felt like the end of an era. But never quite The End. “Was it inevitable that I would find myself back onstage?” he strokes his wiry beard four-and-a-half years down ...