Slayer Shares 'When the Stillness Comes' From Upcoming 11th Album [LISTEN]

King said he was miserable when he wrote the new tune as the band trekked across Europe in a minivan. The result was a hard-hitting track about "a dude who wakes up at a crime scene and realizes he's killed everybody. It's really cool."

"When the Stillness Comes" will be included on the band's 11th studio album. It will be the thrash metal outfit's first effort since losing guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died of 2013. Slayer will also be without drummer Dave Lombardo on the new album (he exited in 2013).

"I know there's gonna be naysayers," King said about the new album. "I know there's gonna be people expecting us to fail, because so many things changed in the last six years. I'm prepared for that 'cause I know humans are just retards when they get on the Internet. But I know we put a good product together. I'm proud of it."

Hanneman's presence will be felt on the album through "Piano Wire," a song the late guitarist wrote the music for but was never able to record. There's also a Hanneman tune that's 20 years old that may be included on the album.

"He was my guitar player for 30 f*cking years, so we had a bond not many people could ever understand," King said about Hanneman. "It'd be stupid for me to try to explain it, 'cause you'd never get it."

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