Kerry King, member of the legendary thrash metal band Slayer and famous freestyle motocross and X Games medalist, Mike Metzger, will get together in Las Vegas on next weekend to sign autographs at the Jägermeister pit area during the AMA Supercross event scheduled to take place at Sam Boyd Stadium on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009.

 

King and fellow guitar player Jeff Hanemann founded Slayer in 1981, since then, the band has recorded 10 official albums including the controversial but yet essential 1986 album “Reign in Blood”, which has been named by Kerrang Magazine as one of the “Most Influential Metal Albums" of all times. King and other members of the band are currently working on what it is going to be follow-up to the 2006 Grammy award-winning "Christ Illusion". Slayer will also go on tour beginning on July 7^th to co-headline the second annual Mayhem Festival presented by Rockstar Energy along with Marilyn Manson, Killswitch Engage and Bullet for my Valentine.

 

Known as "The Godfather of Freestyle Motocross", Mike Metzger is one of the most successful and wildest Freestyle riders of his generation. In the 2002 X-Games he won the Freestyle and Big Air events and got second place in Step Up. Metzger repeated the first place in Big Air in the 2003 X Games and in 2006, Metzger successfully completed "The Impossible Jump", performing a world record backflip over the fountains of CaesarsPalace, Las Vegas. He is the first person to complete a backflip over the fountains, and only the second person to ever successfully land that jump. The others to attempt the jump over CaesarsPalace's fountains include Evel Knievel, Gary Wells, and Robbie Knievel.