According to Blabbermouth.net, Thrash metal legends SLAYER kicked off their North American tour last night (Friday, October 25) at the The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
SLAYER is performing many of the band’s most classic and fan-favorite songs, all of which were originally written and released between the group’s inception and the 1990 gold disc “Seasons In The Abyss”.
SLAYER‘s “old-school night” set includes tracks from 1983’s “Show No Mercy”, 1985’s “Hell Awaits”, the genre-defining and gold-certified “Reign In Blood” (1986), 1988’s “South of Heaven”, also certified gold, and “Seasons”.
The band’s setlist for the Las Vegas show was as follows:
01. World Painted Blood
02. Necrophiliac
03. At Dawn They Sleep
04. Mandatory Suicide
05. Captor Of Sin
06. War Ensemble
07. Disciple
08. Threshold
09. Postmortem
10. Altar Of Sacrifice
11. Jesus Saves
12. Seasons In The Abyss
13. Hallowed Point
14. Dead Skin Mask
15. Raining Blood
16. Black Magic
17. Hate Worldwide
Encore:
18. South Of Heaven
19. Angel Of Death
“We [were] having such a great time rehearsing this ‘old-school’ set, we’ve decided to play it on every one of our upcoming tour dates,” announced SLAYER‘s Kerry King.
“We’re going to give the fans what amounts to ‘decades of aggression,'” added bassist/vocalist Tom Araya. ” It’s going to be a great night of music and moshing for everyone.”
Confirmed dates for SLAYER‘s 2013 fall North American tour are accessible here.
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