10 Rock Music Collaborations No One Could Have Predicted
9. Sum 41 & Kerry King
Man, 2002 was a fun time.
Attack of the Clones came out, the height of being 'edgy' was wearing a flame shirt with a spiked bracelet, Arsenal were good at football, and pop punk was wrestling our love away from nu metal.
Enter Sum 41, the Canadian quartet who had begun winning our hearts with the release of their debut All Killer No Filler the previous year. With tracks such as "Fat Lip", "In Too Deep" and "Motivation", Sum 41 were receiving a lot of mainstream attention, so much so that they were invited to contribute to the soundtrack of that year's blockbuster, Spider-Man.
Based on the high school superhero's characteristics, getting a song that was "down with the kids" at that time made sense (remember the flame shirts), but maybe what wasn't expected was the inclusion of bald-headed, bible-branding Goliath Kerry King of legendary thrash metal act Slayer.
King provides a pretty paint-by-numbers solo to Sum 41's otherwise bad Beastie Boys tribute rapcore effort, and even gets involved in the music video.
He's a big softy after all.