“The end is near… SLAYER TO MAKE ITS EXIT WITH ONE FINAL WORLD TOUR!”
SLAYER have announced the first leg of One Final World Tour with LAMB OF GOD, ANTHRAX, BEHEMOTH and TESTAMENT:
After making some of the most brutal, breathtakingly aggressive, all-hell’s-a-breaking-loose music ever created, playing nearly 3000 concerts in all corners of the world, receiving countless awards, gracing hundreds of magazine covers, experiencing the devastating loss of a founding brother, and even appearing on “The Tonight Show,” the age of Slayer, one of the greatest thrash/ metal/punk bands of this or any age, is coming to an end.
Slayer will do one last concert tour around the globe to thank their fans for all of their support over the years, for making the last three-and-a-half decades so packed with good times and unforgettable experiences, and will then move on.
Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth and Testament will support Slayer on the first leg, North America, of its final world tour.
Tickets go on sale to the public this Friday, January 26 at 10AM local time.
Very limited Slayer onstage + meet & greet + exclusive merchandise packages will be available.
MAY
10 Valley View Casino Center, San Diego, CA
11 FivePoint Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA
13 Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA
16 PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC
17 South Okanagan Events Centre, Penticton, BC
19 Big Four, Calgary, AB
20 Shaw Centre, Edmonton, AB
22 Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg, MB
24 The Armory, Minneapolis, MN
25 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL
27 Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre @ Freedom Hill, Detroit, MI
29 Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON
30 Place Bell, Montreal, PQ
JUNE
1 Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT
2 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
4 Santander Arena, Reading, PA
6 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
7 Blossom Music Center, Cleveland, OH
9 KeyBank Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA
10 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
12 VUHL Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA
14 PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, NC
15 Orlando Amphitheater, Orlando, FL
17 Smart Financial Centre, Houston, TX
19 The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
20 Austin 360 Amphitheater, Austin, TX
Watch below the teaser video, entitled “The End is Near… Slayer to make its exit with one, final world tour”:
“The End is Near… Slayer to tour the world one more time…”
With this statement above, SLAYER are announcing their Final World Tour, most likely starting in North America! Any further details haven’t been revealed yet.
Watch below the teaser video, entitled “The End is Near… Slayer to make its exit with one, final world tour”
There are many perilous ways one can spend time off – volcano-boarding down Cerro Negro, Nicaragua’s active volcano, or maybe bungee jumping from a helicopter over the bubbling crater of Chile’s Villarrica volcano. How about a visit to Sao Paulo’s Snake Island, home of some 4000 golden lancehead vipers whose venom can melt human flesh, or shark diving without a cage in South Africa. But nothing is quite as hazardous or risky as a night in the pit at a SLAYER concert. Add to that the ferociousness of LAMB OF GOD and BEHEMOTH, and you’ve got a Satan-approved triple bill of Biblical proportions.
The six-week expedition will rage across North America beginning July 12 in Bemidji, MN, winding up in Phoenix, AZ on August 20. Slayer and Lamb of God will also play Wisconsin’s Rock Fest 2017 (7/13) and Rock USA 2017 (7/15), and then meet up with Behemoth at the Chicago Open Air Festival on July 16. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 3; log on to slayer.net/tour for all purchasing details.
Slayer‘s Kerry King comments: “As metal tours go, this is the one that your fellow metal heads will be bragging about if you miss it! Not very often I get to go on tour where we are all friends to start. That being said, the potential for greatness at these events is mind blowing. I look forward to being a part of it, and hanging with old friends- bands as well as fanatical fans! Let the festivities begin!!”
Lamb of God‘s Randy Blythe comments: “It’s been a while since we’ve toured with the almighty Slayer, & even longer since we’ve hit the road with our friends in Behemoth– I can’t wait! This tour is gonna be the feel-good event of the summer- the gigs are gonna be like the Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love in ’67! Ok, so that’s complete bullshit, it’s gonna be absolutely nothing like that, so don’t show up with flowers in your hair looking for free hugs or anything stupid like that. It will definitely be a good fucking time though (as long as your definition of a good time means brutal, caustic, and hideously loud music)- see ya there!”
Behemoth‘s Adam “Nergal” Darski comments: “It is with the utmost pride we are announcing the Slayer, Lamb Of God and Behemoth Summer tour! We are beyond excited to be joining this bill with these living legends and our friends one more time! We are also stoked about coming back to North American shores for the last time before kicking off the next album cycle. Come and join this EXTREME metal feast with us!”
Confirmed dates are as follows.
Slayer, Lamb of God, Behemoth tour dates
July 12 – Sanford Center – Bemidji, MN
July 13 – Rock Fest 2017 – Cadott, WI (Slayer, Lamb of God on this bill)
July 15 – Rock USA 2017 – Ford Festival Park @ Oshkosh, WI (Slayer, Lamb of God on this bill)
July 16 – Chicago Open Air Festival – Toyota Park @ Chicago, IL (Slayer, Lamb of God, Behemoth on this bill)
July 18 – Express Live! – Columbus, OH
July 20 – Red Hat Amphitheater – Raleigh, NC
July 21 – St. Augustine Amphitheater – St. Augustine, FL
July 23 – Electric Factory Outdoors – Philadelphia, PA
July 25 – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion – Boston, MA
July 27 – Theater at Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
July 28 – Pier Six Pavilion – Baltimore, MD
July 30 – Municipal Auditorium – Nashville, TN
Aug. 1 – Providence Medical Center Amphitheater – Bonner Springs, KS
Aug. 2 – 1st Bank Center – Denver, CO
Aug. 4 – The Joint/Hard Rock Hotel – Las Vegas, NV
Aug. 5 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA
Aug. 9 – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium – San Francisco, CA
Aug. 11 – The Cuthbert Amphitheater – Eugene, OR
Aug. 12 – WaMu Theatre – Seattle, WA
Aug. 14 – Encana Events Center – Dawson Creek, BC (Canada)
Aug. 15 – SMS Equipment Stadium – Fort McMurray, AB (Canada)
Aug. 17 – KettleHouse Amphitheater – Missoula, MT
Aug. 19 – Isleta Amphitheater – Albuquerque, NM
Aug. 20 – Comerica Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
SLAYER, the most badass thrash/metal band on the planet, will see issue #1 of its three-comic book series “Repentless” released on January 25 through Dark Horse Comics.
The comic book series is based on SLAYER‘s brutal ‘Repentless‘ music videos, written and directed by B.J. McDonnell (Hatchet III) and scripted by director/producer Jon Schnepp (Metalocalypse, The Venture Bros., The Death of Superman Lives). “Twilight Zone” artist Guiu Vilanova created the inside artwork, while Eisner Award-winning British comics artist Glenn Fabry drew Issue #1’s cover, and Eric Powell (The Goon, Hillbilly) created the variant cover.
Said SLAYER‘s Tom Araya about ‘Repentless‘, “We’re telling the story that we’ve always told about society and how humans treat each other.”
For more than three decades, SLAYER‘s onslaught has proven the band to be the supreme thrash-metal band on the planet, the band that other heavy acts are measured against and aspire to. Their membership in “The Big Four” – METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX – the four bands that defined the thrash/metal genre – secures their place in music history. The two-time Grammy-winners have also accumulated an abundance of certified Gold Albums along with “Best…” awards from media outlets all over the world, including Kerrang!, SPIN, Metal Hammer, Revolver, and Esquire. Throughout SLAYER‘s history, the band has never faltered in unleashing its extreme and focused sonic assault, and, unlike many of its contemporaries who “commercialized” their sound, SLAYER has remained crushing and brutal, steadfastly refusing to cater to the mainstream. SLAYER‘s founding member, guitarist Jeff Hanneman passed in 2013, and EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt has been filling in for him since. Paul Bostaph, who was SLAYER‘s drummer from ’94 – ’01, has rejoined bassist/vocalist Tom Araya and guitarist Kerry King, and is back behind the kit.
In September 2015, SLAYER released »Repentless«, the band’s 12th studio album, the first without Hanneman and first with producer Terry Date, to widespread rave reviews and the highest chart debut of the band’s career. The band also teamed up with director BJ McDonnell for three high-concept and brutal music videos for the album’s ‘Repentless‘, then for ‘You Against You,’ and the most recent, ‘Pride in Prejudice‘.
With the premiere of ‘Pride In Prejudice’, SLAYER complete the “Repentless” music video trilogy.
A convicted prisoner on death row… a cookie-cutter, white-bread family unit putting up the Christmas decorations… two worlds, lightness and darkness colliding… white supremacists… ruthless murders… SLAYER’s ‘Pride In Prejudice’ music video, watch it below.
Directed by BJ McDonnell
Produced by Felissa Rose
Edited by Ed Marx and Andrea Porter
Director of Photography – Eric Leach
Jason Trost (»Hatchet III«) – Wyatt
Danny Trejo (»Machete,« »From Dusk Til Dawn«)
Bill Moseley – the Dad (»House Of 1000 Corpses,« »The Devil’s Rejects«)
Caroline Williams – the Mom (»Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens,« »Hatchett III«)
Richard Speight, Jr. – returning as the ultimate Bad Guy (»CSI,« »Jericho,«»Supernatural«)
Filmed during the winter of 2016 in the mountains of Wrightwood, CA
“I’m particularly excited about this third video,” said McDonnell, “because we played with stylistic differences with the trilogy. Where one video plays like an action film, this third one is more of a dramatic piece. The final story takes us into a world that is especially sinister in tone, with the dark and the light colliding. The conclusion is visually cinematic and harsh, with SLAYER conducting us through it all with ‘Pride In Prejudice.'”
“It was a pleasure working with BJ on this project,” said SLAYER’s Kerry King. “SLAYER are notorious for letting the artist be the artist, the producer be the producer, and the director be the director, etc. By doing this we get a completely unique perspective that never really strays far from our own. Get ready for video three. It’s my favourite!”
SLAYER and the »Repentless« video trilogy
With the premiere of ‘Pride In Prejudice,’ SLAYER complete the »Repentless« music video trilogy.
The first video, ‘Repentless,’ was released 9/11/15 and has accumulated nearly 9.8 million views to date. It introduced us to Wyatt, the eyepatched rebel inmate (Jason Trost (»Hatchet III«)), and a host of nefarious prisoners played by some of today’s most iconic horror film actors includingDanny Trejo (»Machete,« »From Dusk Till Dawn«), Tony Moran (»Halloween«’s Michael Myers, »American Poltergeist«), Derek Mears (»Predators,« »Friday the 13th«), Tyler Mane (»Halloween«), Sean Whalen (»Men In Black,« »Halloween II«), and Vernon Wells (»Mad Max 2,« »Commando,« »Weird Science«). ‘Repentless’ was shot at the Sybil Brand Institute in East Los Angeles and has SLAYER performing the song in the prison yard while a riot breaks out, blood flowing in abundance, inmates and prison guards brutally slaughtered.
From the very first frame, ‘You Against You,’ the gore, the violence, the carnage begins and just never ends. While the second video in the trilogy, it is the prequel to ‘Repentless,’ telling the story of the circumstances that led to Wyatt’s erroneous arrest and imprisonment. SLAYER’s performance for ‘You Against You’ was shot at a graveyard of jets, airliners and helicopters inCalifornia’s Mojave Desert. ‘You Against You’ premiered 3/16/16 and has accumulated more than 4.6 million YouTube views.
The »Repentless« video trilogy was conceived and directed by BJ McDonnell who directed the 2013 horror film »Hatchett III.« His rich resume as a motion picture cameraman includes »Jack Reacher,« »Tomorrowland« and »The Interview,« and just wrapped filming for the upcoming»Annabelle 2.«
In September 2015, SLAYER released »Repentless,« the band’s 12th studio album, the first without founding member Jeff Hanneman and first with producer Terry Date, to widespread rave reviews and the highest chart debut of the band’s career. The band – Tom Araya (vocals, bass),Kerry King (guitars), Paul Bostaph (drums) and EXODUS / SLAYER touring guitarist Gary Holt- has toured near-non-stop since the album’s release, and heads out on the road starting September 9 with a seven-week North American trek. This fall, Dark Horse Comics will publish a three-issue comic book series based on McDonnell’s original concept for the »Repentless« video trilogy and written by Jon Schnepp. In addition, October will see the release of SLAYER’s “Cradle To Grave” BMX Bikes/Subrosa four-bike collection. Comprised of the SLAYER Balance, SLAYER 20, SLAYER 26 and the SLAYER Urban Terrain Bike, all are intended for BMX riders to “use and abuse.”
On July 1st, SLAYER’s new single, ‘You Against You’, has been released. New editions (shape, green, white/red splatter, clear) will be available soon. Pre-order now: http://nblast.de/SlayerNB
24.09. USA Houston, TX – Houston Open Air
25.09. USA San Bernardino, CA – Ozzfest Meets Knotfest
29.10. PRI San Juan – Coliseum Of Perto Rico
w/ ANTHRAX, DEATH ANGEL
09.09. USA Cleveland, OH – Jacob’s Pavilion
10.09. USA Detroit, MI – Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
12.09. CDN Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
13.09. CDN Montreal, QC – Metropolis
15.09. USA Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
18.09. USA Chester, PA – Rock Allegiance
20.09. USA Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room
22.09. USA St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
27.09. USA Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
28.09. USA Miami, FL – Fillmore
30.09. USA Tunica, MS – Horseshoe Casino Tunica
03.10. USA Norfolk, VA – Norva
05.10. USA Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
07.10. USA Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey Live
08.10. USA Austin, TX – ACL At The Moody Theatre
10.10. USA Denver, CO – Fillmore
11.10. USA Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
13.10. USA Missoula, MT – The Wilma Theatre
17.10. USA Lethbridge, AB – ENMAX Center
19.10. USA Penticton, BC – South Okanagan Events Centre
20.10. USA Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre
23.10. USA Reno, NV – Reno Events Center
27.10. USA El Paso, TX – El Paso County Coliseum
On July 4th, SLAYER performed at Market Sound in Milan (Italy). Fan-filmed video footage has been posted online, watch below. Photos by Zel – Ancient.
SLAYER’s setlist was:
Repentless
Disciple
God Send Death
Mandatory Suicide
Fight Till Death
War Ensemble
When the Stillness Comes
You Against You
Postmortem
Hate Worldwide
Dead Skin Mask
The Antichrist
Pride in Prejudice
Take Control
Seasons in the Abyss
Encore:
South of Heaven
Raining Blood
Black Magic
Angel of Death
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