Tom Araya and Kerry King of the metal legends Slayer sat down to discuss the “Repentless” video trilogy.
When the members of SLAYER were approached by Nuclear Blast America’s General Manager Gerardo Martinez to make a music video for “Repentless,” the title track of the band’s 2015 label debut, they thought it was going to be a cool, one-off music video. Martinez put the band together with up-and-coming director BJ McDonnell who turned in a storyline that the band really liked. “Meeting him, he was excited,” remembers Slayer’s Tom Araya. “He really liked the fact he was working with the band, he was a fan, and his excitement rubbed off because it made me excited. I thought, ‘well this is gonna be fucking great!'”
“Repentless” was shot on August 25 & 26, 2016 at the Sybil Brand Institute, a women’s prison in East Los Angeles. BJ and producer Felissa Rose (“Camp Dread,” the upcoming “Death House”) put together an all-star cast of instantly-recognizable bad guys: Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “From Dusk Till Dawn”), Tony Moran (“Halloween’s Michael Myers,” “American Poltergeist”), Derek Mears (“Predators,” “Friday the 13th“) Tyler Mane(“Halloween”), Sean Whalen (“Men In Black,” “Halloween II”), Vernon Wells (“Mad Max 2,” “Commando,” “Weird Science”), and Jason Trost (“Hatchet III”), who starred in all three videos. They then brought in a killer, all-pro crew – stunt coordinator Don Lee (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” “Star Trek Beyond”), director of photography Eric Leach (“The Neighbor,” “What Lola Wants”), Special FX makeup artists Tony Gardner andAdrienne Lynn (“Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse,” “Zombieland,” “The Bad Batch”), and editors Ed Marx and Andrea Porter (“Hatchet III”).
“Repentless” then received a sequel and a prequel for “Pride In Prejudice” and “You Against You” respectively.
Watch the three videos below.
You Against You
Repentless
Pride In Prejudice
