Production value(cameras, lenses, lighting) is overrated when it comes to this type of content imo, audio quality is important and that was more than decent.
If Dimebag and Randy Rhoads can have countless signature series guitars come out long after they've died, then I don't see why Kerry King can't have a signature series come out after Slayer is done. It's all marketing ploys anyways. The price is ridiculous, but I can see a cheaper version coming out later.
They didn't change the guitar shape of the first two guys. Dime and RR played those guitars. I don't think you have to be in am active band to have a signature though.
There are boutique guitar builders who use much more expensive materials and electronics in their builds and they still don't charge 7,000 dollars. I can order an Aristides with an Evertune and Bareknuckles for like half the price.
RUclips algorithm sent me here because KK was mentioned. In summary, you don't like this guitar because of it's looks and that's okay, you're not supposed to. I just looked at your other videos of the guitars that you DO like, and if you had liked this one too, it would have to be redesigned. Even if they all sound the same, there is a REASON some people want a metal guitar that looks different.
My guess is that it's so hideous that only the diehard's and collectors would buy it, so instead of having a low price to sell more guitars, they have a high price to get the most out of the few they might manage to sell.
Actually the earwig V was a 1.5-2K guitar if you bought the import. This is a custom shop USA, even the USA earwig V was insanely expensive (6-7K). No idea why Kerry has a second signature, though, he’s carrying Dean at this point endorsement wise I suppose. Also extreme looking custom shop guitars having insane prices is nothing new (look at the price of Alexi Wild Scythes, ESP Snakebytes, Washburn Dimes and so forth), they can reach even in excess of 10K. Whether they’re worth it or not is highly debatable, but I guess it comes as a surprise to those who think only Fender strats and Gibsons justify such an amount, or think a standard USA strat is automatically a far better instrument. Lastly, the Dean USA Custom Shop has been around for a while, they do make high quality stuff (look at the Dean Southern Cross with Chondro Guitars). Regardless of what you think of the brand.
Look, that guitar deserved a video of a quality that isn't up to your standards. No need to apologise for the quality of the video. I too am a Slayer and Kerry King fan. I feel the same way as you about those guitars.
Kerry's signature gear has always been visually distinctive, even though its strange to have signature gear when you're not currently in the music business, the gear itself is cool regardless who designed it. I think the new guitar looks pretty ugly though. The price is roughly the same as an ESP Custom.
Why’d he leave BC Rich??? I love Warlock guitars. I’m 6’0” and have an LTD and I love it but the frets are way too big to stretch super far like Marty Friedman. The frets on the BC Rich are tiny so you can really stretch.
1. His original Dean USA custom shop was $5,999 - the import was $1399 MSRP 2. He was very happy when they handed him the guitar, I happened to be in Dean's booth when he came in.
It looks like a bad warlock knock off.. I mean its not the worst guitar I've ever seen but its definitely not the best I've ever seen either. Its just kind of plain looking..
I remember the video with KDH where you talked about his first Dean model (I fully agree, in the garbage). The moment this was announced, I anxiously awaited your reaction.
I completely agree with you,, Dean also makes the Doyle signature which would be cool except it's a mostly impractical shape that would only appeal to misfits fans for $10K ,, kind of ridiculous
The whole Kerry King vibe throws me off. It's clownish and he is one of the more uninteresting and least talented artists in the long list of signature guitars
I thought the exact same thing when I saw the price on Erik Rutan's 7 string Ironbird. Not to mention I've always wondered who TF is buying a guitar custom built to another guy's specs for SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS? $2k tops. Up to $3k if you're REALLY infatuated with the player I guess. But $7k sounds like a poor joke.
does kk ever play the same solo as the record? or the same solo ever twice? this is meant as an honest question because i dont follow slayer but have known of them since started playing 30+ years ago. Thanks
Some people never understand price has nothing to do with the way the neck is attached. Even the most high end custom Fenders still have bolt on necks. All Fenders do, that's the point of Fenders. Solars use Set-in necks, as does Gibson and many other companies. Comparing price to anything other than build quality or performance makes you look like a beginner
@@sixstringtv1 I’m guessing i’m some people😂so what if i am a beginner? 🤔 did you not just compare the price to a shape/inlays you in your own opinion don’t like? But i’m pretty sure you haven’t touched either the V or this X shape, you just wanted some views, whatever… In my opinion, neck construction is a build quality component. Your argument about fender/gibson to me is invalid (considering they make much more expensive garbage than this, and it’s well known how overpriced most of their stuff is anyway), my point is you can find neck-thru solars for half the money, and it’s a massive manufacturing cost difference… check the trans purple S series if you’re so sure they use set necks..
I don’t agree with him not being relevant enough for a signature guitar because he’s still a name in the guitar world, even if Slayer doesn’t exist anymore. It’s kind of like saying that there shouldn’t be Jimi Hendrix or Dimebag signature stuff because they’re dead. That being said, I do agree that his guitar is ugly as hell and waaaaaay overpriced.
i think it’s kinda funny if you and kdh thought staying in a motel was a good idea in USA 😂 Maybe it was to save cost. But staying in motels in USA is usually not normal
Although I do agree that these King Dean guitars are over priced....the price that you quoted for his 1st Dean guitar at $2000 is for the import version. The USA version is much more....too much. I own a Dean USA custom shop guitar....got it for $1200 and it's absolutely my best guitar. Not only does it play beautifully but it hangs just right on the strap...no neck dive
Reminds me of that hideous beast v i think its Kerry's attempt at at an x shape i wish he'd have made a bc rich stealth signature with the same hardware instead as this with the the standard reverse bc headstock or the reverse igniter headstock does anyone remember when he had a custom bc rich v with the igniter headstock i think it was on a korg tuner ad back in the day its like slim line hockey stick head
Even if juju forgive Mr Kings fashion sense…he deserves a much better shape…his solos are wonderfully asymmetrical/nonsensical his guitar shape should reflect that vulgarity….
IIRC, the USA version of his previous Dean model was in the region of $5.000 plus.? it;s not exactly a secret Dean are a mess at the moment, and maybe some of that price is going into KK's pocket.
@@sixstringtv1 I meant in general with the design as well, but I wasn't very clear 🤣 But yeah, Dean really are shitting the end these days... Sucks to see.
Looking for a silver lining to this atrocity of a guitar? If Dean had lost their latest court case with Gibson the USA Custom Shop Kerry King Signature Overlord would retail for $64,999 instead of $6,499. There's something.
...But it's a reasonable price for an instrument whom creator is dead, compared to the seven figures claimed online for a Jimi Hendrix chinese strat-egy or a David Gilmour's UniPosca non-mexican signed one without the old sticker on it...
Kerry should get sigs forever. He's not only a great guitarist but also the mascot for the best of all the 80s thrash bands. Why Dean chose to do this is not the question. The question is; Why did Kerry choose Dean?,,,,,although they did great on the V I will admit.
The thing is Kerry has no legacy with Dean anyway, Slayer's whole history for what Kerry has been know for is BC Riches and ESP's The only memory I have of Kerry with Dean really is him messing up When the Stillness Comes 4 times and then just walks off stage! Zero interest in this guitar, from a Slayer legacy point of view and it even looks crap too, Kerry should have stayed with BC Rich and done some beautiful Slayer anniversary Vs to celebrate the band existence, it was too late in the day to join with Dean.
First off let me say I'm not a fan of Carrie King at all. He might as well be Atlantis morissette? The guitar looks kind of like a BC Rich mated with a Jackson warrior! I call his signature V the earwig v. This one's a little bit better but you got to get rid of those dated kaylor trim bars.... Anyways just thought I would put in my two Sense 😅 I'm a new subscriber great channel bro have a good day and work on the German accent! Lol
7 grand for a USA custom shop signature isn't too unreasonable when you compare to to custom shop Gibson's and the likes to be fair to dean, expensive yes, unreasonable? Only a little bit
I like Kerry’s BC Rich guitars. I’ve never liked Dean guitars. Kerry’s name on a Dean doesn’t make me want it. I did try out his signature Dean V. I wanted to like it. I tried to like it. I hated the neck. It felt too thick for me. The new model just looks like add to me. I don’t even want to try it out.
Maybe it's just for collectors? Kinda like the high price Warlocks for the show they were shown on. His Dean V is just ok if not for the Kaylor bridge no body likes to use. I did like his BCRICH Vs. i thought they were cool. But it's a Hard pass on these new ones. Totally agree with you. 👊😎
I love slayer. The riffs are great, but the solos suck. Thats's like saying farts sound funny, but smell bad. The same can be said for signature guitar models.
RUclipsrs have signature guitars... Maybe Kerry King deserves one, slayer or not. *cough* dimebag *cough* But fuck no, 7000+ dollars? Thats nuuuuuuuuuuuuuts.
step 1: find earwig in yard
step 2: throw some super slinkies on that bad boy
step 3: sell for $9000 dollars
you can't use super slinkies with a kahler
just looks like an ML shape and Warlock thing
@@NateHxxlno it just looks like shit
Step 4: use it to write a thousand riffs in open Eb.
Kerry King's new guitar is so bad it stole your youth.
Lmaoo
He even broke his cherry 😂😂
hahahaa
Oof.
💀
> no glasses
> recording from a hotel
> unshaven
what namm does to a mofo
I couldn't shave the rancid facial hair clean off cause i would've looked like 12 😭
@@sixstringtv1 keep it growing and clean it and model it
I shaved everything besides the moustache. that's staying.
@@sixstringtv1 fuckin eleventeen year old.
Slayer will come back when they need money.
Production value(cameras, lenses, lighting) is overrated when it comes to this type of content imo, audio quality is important and that was more than decent.
Looks like something my artistically challenged self would have scrawled on the back of my Maths book in 1985
Dean never fails to disappoint
@KAPTEIN...
You're utterly stupid. Ever heard of a man called Dimebag?
It is like a tbh very challenged cousin of a Jackson Warrior. Also the earworm horns are back :O
Kerry has a new band. He is busy writing the music. He is still quite busy with music, just quiet now.
I liked the ESP V he had around the Seasons era. He had it in the picture in the album
That ESP V with the reverse banana headstock was so badass! Definitely his best signature imo
Problem is they're about as rare, if not rarer than the ESP MX250s.
@@dq7860 yeah I saw one on reverb that sold for like $21,000 lol
@@hsojfarren8830 holy shit. That much? Damn it looks cool but I would never pay that kind of money for a signature guitar.
Yeh that blood splatter ESP! SO COOL
Since RUclips guitarists get signature guitars, I see no valid reason why Kerry couldn't have one...
Cause RUclips guitarists do something? 🤣
It's not that I'm trying to gatekeep signature guitars from him, I just don't get it on Dean's part.
@@sixstringtv1 He's punished enough with those ugly signature guitars 😂
Kerry is a legend and his solos are legendary I can see why he got his own signature model
If you asked a random person to draw the guitar they think was used to make slayers music, this is what they would draw.
Damn you aged like 10 years, just how bad was that motel?
Oh it was bad lmao
Coming to america in a nutshell.
If Dimebag and Randy Rhoads can have countless signature series guitars come out long after they've died, then I don't see why Kerry King can't have a signature series come out after Slayer is done. It's all marketing ploys anyways. The price is ridiculous, but I can see a cheaper version coming out later.
They didn't change the guitar shape of the first two guys. Dime and RR played those guitars. I don't think you have to be in am active band to have a signature though.
I love it. We need more mass produced fucked up little weird guy guitars.
These aren't mass produced at all sadly
True
Dean did the same thing with the old guitar player . From the misfits
Let’s be real, King’s best Signature guitars are his Vs, almost any other shape he comes up with looks what an 8-13 year old thinks is cool.
I adore this guitar it's hideous in the best way
just like trans women
Hey! We don't do that here. Please find someone who will love you.
If Gibson would stop suing Dean for a minute, then maybe they wouldn’t have to charge such a stupid price…just saying 🤣
There are boutique guitar builders who use much more expensive materials and electronics in their builds and they still don't charge 7,000 dollars. I can order an Aristides with an Evertune and Bareknuckles for like half the price.
RUclips algorithm sent me here because KK was mentioned. In summary, you don't like this guitar because of it's looks and that's okay, you're not supposed to. I just looked at your other videos of the guitars that you DO like, and if you had liked this one too, it would have to be redesigned. Even if they all sound the same, there is a REASON some people want a metal guitar that looks different.
My guess is that it's so hideous that only the diehard's and collectors would buy it, so instead of having a low price to sell more guitars, they have a high price to get the most out of the few they might manage to sell.
Thank God we are free to like this Guitar in any way we want, and not what others tells us to.
Actually the earwig V was a 1.5-2K guitar if you bought the import. This is a custom shop USA, even the USA earwig V was insanely expensive (6-7K). No idea why Kerry has a second signature, though, he’s carrying Dean at this point endorsement wise I suppose.
Also extreme looking custom shop guitars having insane prices is nothing new (look at the price of Alexi Wild Scythes, ESP Snakebytes, Washburn Dimes and so forth), they can reach even in excess of 10K. Whether they’re worth it or not is highly debatable, but I guess it comes as a surprise to those who think only Fender strats and Gibsons justify such an amount, or think a standard USA strat is automatically a far better instrument.
Lastly, the Dean USA Custom Shop has been around for a while, they do make high quality stuff (look at the Dean Southern Cross with Chondro Guitars). Regardless of what you think of the brand.
Look, that guitar deserved a video of a quality that isn't up to your standards. No need to apologise for the quality of the video. I too am a Slayer and Kerry King fan. I feel the same way as you about those guitars.
Kerry's signature gear has always been visually distinctive, even though its strange to have signature gear when you're not currently in the music business, the gear itself is cool regardless who designed it. I think the new guitar looks pretty ugly though. The price is roughly the same as an ESP Custom.
The guitar looks like Lobster Boy's "Thalidomide Baby" birth defects.
His first Dean was a custom shop that was priced at $6,666 because edge
I like that guitar from the shape perspective, it looks pretty ergonomic.
This dude with a forehead of the size of a matchbox looks like he's Tom Arays's love child. Now badmouthing King makes perfect sense.🤣🤣🤣
Apparently Kerry had originally wanted telecaster pickups and a bigsby but Dean said nah, that'll look ugly...
Why’d he leave BC Rich??? I love Warlock guitars. I’m 6’0” and have an LTD and I love it but the frets are way too big to stretch super far like Marty Friedman. The frets on the BC Rich are tiny so you can really stretch.
Why is thing the price of 2 Custom Shop Stratocasters?
I'm sure there's a couple, but how many Slayer fans can afford and would spend that much for a guitar that doesn't even come with his autograph?
Is not the machine, it's the operater. Who cares what it looks like he could play a fender squire bullet and make it sound awesome
Dean went full modern Bc rich with that price. Even when kerry king was with the old Bc rich, he had affordable models.
1. His original Dean USA custom shop was $5,999 - the import was $1399 MSRP
2. He was very happy when they handed him the guitar, I happened to be in Dean's booth when he came in.
1:06 right?!
I usually don't like metal guitars.. but these looks rad!
It looks like a bad warlock knock off..
I mean its not the worst guitar I've ever seen but its definitely not the best I've ever seen either. Its just kind of plain looking..
Thx for saying that
I remember the video with KDH where you talked about his first Dean model (I fully agree, in the garbage). The moment this was announced, I anxiously awaited your reaction.
I completely agree with you,, Dean also makes the Doyle signature which would be cool except it's a mostly impractical shape that would only appeal to misfits fans for $10K ,, kind of ridiculous
The whole Kerry King vibe throws me off. It's clownish and he is one of the more uninteresting and least talented artists in the long list of signature guitars
I thought the exact same thing when I saw the price on Erik Rutan's 7 string Ironbird. Not to mention I've always wondered who TF is buying a guitar custom built to another guy's specs for SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS?
$2k tops. Up to $3k if you're REALLY infatuated with the player I guess. But $7k sounds like a poor joke.
Holy crap you look like an adult after namm.... 🤘
does kk ever play the same solo as the record? or the same solo ever twice? this is meant as an honest question because i dont follow slayer but have known of them since started playing 30+ years ago. Thanks
He's actually quite good at memorizing his solos hahah
Ofc Kerry king isn’t Eddie Van Halen, but if we’re saying bands that aren’t playing shouldn’t get signature guitars, why can Van Halen?
I don't think people who buy artist signature models, if such people in fact exist, care whether the artist is actively playing.
Idk man the newest warlock is kinda off
Speaking of the solar masterbuilt series, a set neck for 3.5k isn’t much better…
Some people never understand price has nothing to do with the way the neck is attached. Even the most high end custom Fenders still have bolt on necks. All Fenders do, that's the point of Fenders. Solars use Set-in necks, as does Gibson and many other companies.
Comparing price to anything other than build quality or performance makes you look like a beginner
@@sixstringtv1 I’m guessing i’m some people😂so what if i am a beginner? 🤔 did you not just compare the price to a shape/inlays you in your own opinion don’t like? But i’m pretty sure you haven’t touched either the V or this X shape, you just wanted some views, whatever… In my opinion, neck construction is a build quality component. Your argument about fender/gibson to me is invalid (considering they make much more expensive garbage than this, and it’s well known how overpriced most of their stuff is anyway), my point is you can find neck-thru solars for half the money, and it’s a massive manufacturing cost difference… check the trans purple S series if you’re so sure they use set necks..
I don’t agree with him not being relevant enough for a signature guitar because he’s still a name in the guitar world, even if Slayer doesn’t exist anymore. It’s kind of like saying that there shouldn’t be Jimi Hendrix or Dimebag signature stuff because they’re dead.
That being said, I do agree that his guitar is ugly as hell and waaaaaay overpriced.
A friend spotted Kerry at a restaraunt a few months ago so we know that he still
eats food.
Isn't this the german guy? Or is he from the U.S...or U.K.? U.K. accent? Just wonderin'. So many review guys! Good review btw.
Why didn't you demo one?
I'm no Kerry king fan but by that logic what's Les Paul done lately.
i think it’s kinda funny if you and kdh thought staying in a motel was a good idea in USA 😂 Maybe it was to save cost. But staying in motels in USA is usually not normal
Although I do agree that these King Dean guitars are over priced....the price that you quoted for his 1st Dean guitar at $2000 is for the import version. The USA version is much more....too much. I own a Dean USA custom shop guitar....got it for $1200 and it's absolutely my best guitar. Not only does it play beautifully but it hangs just right on the strap...no neck dive
A Kerry King signature guitar? For one, Kerry King hasn't been active in years, and for two, that price tag is appalling.
The Kerry Krab signature model!
I cannot unsee this now 😂
Reminds me of that hideous beast v i think its Kerry's attempt at at an x shape i wish he'd have made a bc rich stealth signature with the same hardware instead as this with the the standard reverse bc headstock or the reverse igniter headstock does anyone remember when he had a custom bc rich v with the igniter headstock i think it was on a korg tuner ad back in the day its like slim line hockey stick head
Let's get a campaign started to get Kev Frasad some free ones because he would LOVE these.
He hates them, I've talked to him
@@sixstringtv1 Thank god, because these things are fucking awful.
I like his BC rich guitars lmfao, he keeps them in business.
What makes you happy?
NAMM made me very happy
Motel 6 locations vary in quality. Some of them are good. Others are what you had to go to.
Must need the money for that Gibson lawsuit 🤣🤣
I would like it if it didn't have the "crab" claws.
I didn't like the sustainiac pickup when I tried one. Wife loved it tho....😉
Even if juju forgive Mr Kings fashion sense…he deserves a much better shape…his solos are wonderfully asymmetrical/nonsensical his guitar shape should reflect that vulgarity….
@@piggyeternal5724 bwahaaaa
IIRC, the USA version of his previous Dean model was in the region of $5.000 plus.? it;s not exactly a secret Dean are a mess at the moment, and maybe some of that price is going into KK's pocket.
I ran into him in nyc recently and he said he has been working on a new project with Gary holt.
No way 👀
Overlord? More like Overpriced.
Man, what was that guy thinking...
The pricing wasn't his choice. Dean are just greedy
@@sixstringtv1 I meant in general with the design as well, but I wasn't very clear 🤣
But yeah, Dean really are shitting the end these days... Sucks to see.
This was a beautiful guitar lots of great specs on it got to see it in person , to hate on a guitar you didn't see yourself is reaching.
Why do I need to have seen it in real life to know the specs and what it looks like?
Dean? The same company that agreed the razorback was dimes design and they wouldnt trademark it, then they went and trademarked it
Looks like the LaQuinta Inn….
Kerry King's signature guitars have mostly been hideous. How can one day it is horrible without playing it?
You got that Wyattxhim video quality😭
Looking for a silver lining to this atrocity of a guitar? If Dean had lost their latest court case with Gibson the USA Custom Shop Kerry King Signature Overlord would retail for $64,999 instead of $6,499. There's something.
...But it's a reasonable price for an instrument whom creator is dead, compared to the seven figures claimed online for a Jimi Hendrix chinese strat-egy or a David Gilmour's UniPosca non-mexican signed one without the old sticker on it...
Kerry should get sigs forever. He's not only a great guitarist but also the mascot for the best of all the 80s thrash bands.
Why Dean chose to do this is not the question. The question is; Why did Kerry choose Dean?,,,,,although they did great on the V I will admit.
Oh man that guitar is sweet😂
You're sure that yellowish thing behind you is not a cell wall?🤣🤣🤣
Dean seems to be slipping off. Going to their artist page returns only a handful of people. Some of those artists have no guitars on their page.
Kerry King just one upped himself in bad taste. I didnt think it was possible.
The thing is Kerry has no legacy with Dean anyway, Slayer's whole history for what Kerry has been know for is BC Riches and ESP's
The only memory I have of Kerry with Dean really is him messing up When the Stillness Comes 4 times and then just walks off stage!
Zero interest in this guitar, from a Slayer legacy point of view and it even looks crap too, Kerry should have stayed with BC Rich and done some beautiful Slayer anniversary Vs to celebrate the band existence, it was too late in the day to join with Dean.
They need to do a version with abalone veneer on the body 🤌😂
It's overpriced because Dean has legal bills to pay 😏
From all the pedo trials lmao
What kinda vape is that
First off let me say I'm not a fan of Carrie King at all. He might as well be Atlantis morissette? The guitar looks kind of like a BC Rich mated with a Jackson warrior! I call his signature V the earwig v. This one's a little bit better but you got to get rid of those dated kaylor trim bars....
Anyways just thought I would put in my two Sense 😅
I'm a new subscriber great channel bro have a good day and work on the German accent! Lol
SpiritWorld have continued where Slayer left off - Check 'em out
This man is barely 18!!! Putting out legit content!!! Do y’all understand?!?
Usually that phrase is associated with a different kind of online content.
7 grand for a USA custom shop signature isn't too unreasonable when you compare to to custom shop Gibson's and the likes to be fair to dean, expensive yes, unreasonable? Only a little bit
It looks like Jackson Warrior that's been run over by a steamroller.
So what you’re saying is Kerry King has a new signature guitar and it’s not for sale
It is if you wanna spend used car kind of money on a shitty guitar lmao
"Kerry King c-shape neck" what?
I like Kerry’s BC Rich guitars. I’ve never liked Dean guitars. Kerry’s name on a Dean doesn’t make me want it. I did try out his signature Dean V. I wanted to like it. I tried to like it. I hated the neck. It felt too thick for me. The new model just looks like add to me. I don’t even want to try it out.
Maybe it's just for collectors? Kinda like the high price Warlocks for the show they were shown on. His Dean V is just ok if not for the Kaylor bridge no body likes to use. I did like his BCRICH Vs. i thought they were cool. But it's a Hard pass on these new ones. Totally agree with you. 👊😎
It’s super horrible. I think he will have a new band soon and I don’t think Phil is going to front it. He should start completely fresh.
I love slayer. The riffs are great, but the solos suck. Thats's like saying farts sound funny, but smell bad. The same can be said for signature guitar models.
Bro its not Kerry Kings fault you cant see the true value of earwig themed guitars
RUclipsrs have signature guitars... Maybe Kerry King deserves one, slayer or not. *cough* dimebag *cough*
But fuck no, 7000+ dollars? Thats nuuuuuuuuuuuuuts.
It looks like it hates Dave Lombardo too.