News•August 27, 2014 10:35 AM ET•11,170 views

Dave Lombardo: I won't ever go back to Slayer

They haven't exactly asked him to return, but former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo now tells Metal Hammer that he will never rejoin the band:

"No. That's it. I'm done now. I've got lots of other things on my plate and I now know that, when it comes to money, you don't have any friends in this business. I won't ever be going back."

Elaborating on the deterioration of his relationship with the band, Lombardo said, "I didn't have that [type of relationship] towards the end. We just saw each other before going onstage every night. You travel in different buses and hang out in different circles. It made it very hard to go onstage and have any sort of chemistry." As you may recall, Lombardo was fired from Slayer in early-2013.