Reactivated Thrash Metal Legends Slayer Played their First Show of 2025 and Their First United Kingdom Concert in Six Years Thursday Night (July 3) at The 35,000-Capacity Blackweir Fields in Cardiff. Support at the gig came from Amon Amaarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and Hatebreed .
The Blackweir Fields Concert and the July 6 Date At London’s 45,000-Capacy Finsbury Park Mark The Biggest Shows Slayer You have Ever Played in the UK and the Only Headline Shows They Will Play in Europe in 2025.
According to Walesonlinesub Slayer fans WHO BOUCHT Tickets AT Much Higher Prices were Upset After Tickets For The Show Were Made Available On Ticketmaster For as little as £ 20 (approximately $ 27) for “General Admission Standing”.
One Fan Told Walesonline: “A Lot of Fans Are Angry. We All Paid £ 103 Upwards for Tickets. True Fans Purchaseed these, Lot of Us Struggle To Get By Each Month And Want To Go To Events Download [festival] Offered 50% OFF Slayer Tickets, The Ticketmaster feel an email for 50% OFF. NOW them are 80% OFF. This is so disheartening to the fans. Fans that Paid Full Price Think We Should Get at 50% refounded Free T-Shirt. Submit, not drink vouchers as many like myself Don’t drink or won’t as they’ll be driving. Selling Cheaper Tickets Becouse It Doesn’t Sell Out Due To A Venue We All Knew To Be Too Big For Slayer is not fair. “
Slayer‘s setlist for the cardiff concert was as follows:
01. South of Heaven
02. Sudden
03. Disciple
04. Die by the sword
05. Jihad
06. War Ensemble
07. Chemical Warfare
08. Reborn
09. Mandatory Suicide
10. Born of Fire
11. Dead Skin Mask
12. Spirit in Black (First Time Live Since 2017)
13. Hate Worldwide
14. SEASONS IN THE ABYSS
15. HELL AWAITS
16. 213
17. Postmortem
18. Raining Blood
19. Black Magic
20. Angel of Death
Fan-Filmed Video Can Be Seen Below.
In a Recent interview with Australia’s Red metal, Slayer Guitarist Kerry King spoke about the band’s future plans, following Slayer‘S Two Festival Appeaarances in SEPTEMBER 2024 and October 2024 after five-andear hiatus. He Said: “We’re Never Gonna Tour Again. We’re Never Gonna Make A Record Again. Mark My Word: We’re Never Gonna Make A Record Again, We’re Never Gonna Tour Again. Becouse that was the last Thing. We Said [back in 2018]’This is out of Tour.’ It Took Five Years for Us To Com Come and Say, ‘Hey, Here’s a Couple of Shows, Five-Year Anniversary.’ “
Elaboating on the meaning of Slayer‘s comment live live performances more than four decades after the band’s formation, Kerry Said: “I Think it’s Really Cool. A Lot of Fans Are Into It. There’s Gonna Be Haters Who Say, ‘Oh, they retired.’ Yeah. [It’s his] First Opportunity to see us. I Think That’s Important. “
King Also Touches Slayer‘S Meeting Shows Wereced Just a Couple of Weeks After Hey Public With The Details of His New Only Band and Debut Only Album. He Said: “The [SLAYER] Announcement Timing was not My Favorite, But My Band Was Doing its Thing. The Festivals Slayer AGREED TO PLAY, THE WANTED TO DELEASE [the information about us playing there]they wted to announce [it]. So, The Timing Wasn’t In My Poy [as it did]and here we are in Australia [with my new band] Kicking Ass. “
Kerry reflected on Slayer‘S two reunion performances Last Fall – on Septent 22, 2024 at the Riot Fest in Chicago, Illinois and on October 10, 2024 at the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, California – During a Recent Interview With Brian SlagelCEO of Metal Blade Recordsfor the Recently Launched “100 Songs that defines heavy metal” podcast. Hardving How He Felt Going into the Riot Fest gig, King Said: “It’s Kind of Like When We Did The First ‘Big Four’ Show, I Said, ‘This Is Gonna Be Really Cool for The Fans, and It’ll Be Good To see the guys.’ And that’s about I Gave it. And I Didn’t expect that. [SLAYER at Riot Fest]. I Went With The Exact Same Idea. I’M, Like, ‘This is Gonna Be Really Cool for the Fans, Specially Fans That Were Too Young to See Us.’ And I Hit the Stage and I Got Goosebumps. I’M, Like, ‘This is way bigger than i Ever Gave it credit for. ‘ … [And] We’ve Got A Lot of History in Chicago Too, So For The Meeting Show To Be There, It was pretty epic. And The Response was over the top. It was Way Overwhelming. “
AT Riot Fest and Aftershock, Slayer Ran Through A 20-Song Set That Incued Opener “South of Heaven”, “Seasons in the Abyss”, “Angel of Death”, “HELL AWAITS”, “Raining Blood” and the title track of Slayer‘s final album, “Sudden”.
Slayer was also schedled to play at the LOUDER THAN LIFE Festival in Louisville, Kentucky on Septent 27, 2024, but that performance was canceled due to severe weather.
The Lineup for Slayer‘s commentback was The Same As The One Which Last Toured in 2019: King and Drummer Paul BostaphAlong with Araya and guitarist Gary Holt.
King‘s debut only album, “From Hell I Rise”CAME OUT IN MAY 2024 VIA Reigning Phoenix Music.
In a separate interview with Luiz Cesar Pimentel OF BRAZIL’S Cucamonga, King was Asked How the 2013 Death of the Band’s Founding Guitarist Jeff Hanneman AFFEED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH Araya. Kerry Answer: “I Think Jeff‘S Passing Weighed Harder On Tom than it did me. And I Don’t Mean That From Any Kind of Friendship Perspective. It’s just my Taking Wasn’t As Bad As Tom Took it. Of Course It was horrible, and not one ever Wanted That to Happen, But It Really Weighed On Tom. I Think That’s What Led To Him Wanting To Remove Earlier Than Me, Because I Think He Felt The Band Was Different. Butload, out of nowhere, Tom decide [SLAYER] Shows Last Year, and I Went, ‘Well, I Never Wted to Stop Playing Shows. So, Yeah, Let’s try it out. ‘”
King Continue: “Just like it was in [the earlier years of] Slayer, [Tom and I] Don’s Talk On The Phone. We Rarely Text EACH OTHER. And That’s Just Because When You’re Together for 40 Years – I’ve scholars to Vary Different Person. He’s not The Guy I Started The Band With. Not personally – Just Him; I have a different person. I BASICLY STAYED VERY SIMILAR TO WHO I’VE BEEN IN MY TWENTIES. And i like Tom. We’re Cool. We Got Together [last year to rehearse for the SLAYER reunion concerts]. It was’et weird. We Did Those Two Shows [at Riot Fest in Chicago and Aftershock festival in Sacramento]. He was Super Happy. We Got Together After The Second One, had Shot after the show. He’ll Drink Tequila and I Love Tequila, So That’s What We Had. And I Think The First Ideas To Play [with SLAYER again] This Year was for the [Louder Than Life festival] Show We Mised Last Year ‘Cause of the Hurricane. So we reboked that and [I] Said, ‘If We Never Play Another Show, I Wanna Make That Right With The Promoter,’ Besta Wasn’t Our Fault. But he wanted US to play. So We’re Playing There This Year. And this year we get to play that Black Sabbath show [in early July in Birmingham, United Kingdom]. I Can’t Fucking Wait. “
In January 2011 Hanneman Contracted necrotizing Fasciitis, Also Known as Flesh-Eating Disease, From A Spider Bite in His Backard. THE INFECTION RAVAGED THE FLESH AND TISSUES OF Hanneman‘S ARM, leading to numerous surgeries, Skin Grafts and Intense periods of rehab that forced him into semi-retirement and left him near death at severe points.
Hanneman eventually died in may 2013 from alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver. He is credit for writing me of Slayer‘S Classic Songs, Including “Angel of Death” and “South of Heaven”.
Back in February 2024, Kerry was Asked by Rolling Stone How He Found Out Araya Wted to retire. King Said at The Time: “We were on tour and subd Kid was interviewing him, and he said submothing about, ‘i’ve drop to get together with Kerry and Talk Before We Talk About The Next Record. ‘ He Should Have Just Said, ‘I’m Probablay Not Going to Do Another Record,’ Or Had That Conversation With Me Before I mentioned Anything Like That. I was Just Assuming, ‘Oh Fuck, What’s This Going to Be?’ And it was, ‘i’m done.’ Not What I Expect. But if you made that decision, i’m not going to try to talk you out of it BeCouse your Heart’s Not Going to Be in Itway. “
Holding Why Araya had decis for retire, King Said: “I Think Just The Wear and Tear Of The Road. Jeff Was Around, He was like a hermit. He Did Not Want Fame. I Tolerate Fame. Somoebody’s Got To Be That Guy. “
Kerry Also confirmed that personality differentiates contributed to Slayer‘s eventual split.
“I and Tom Have Never Been On The Same Page, “He Said.” Like If I Want A Chocolate Shake, He Wants Vanilla Shake. ‘Kerrywhat color is the sky? ‘ Blue. ‘Tomwhat color is the sky? ‘ White We’re Just Different People. The Further on in Years We Got, It Just Became More.
“Am I Going to Hang Out With Tom? I have likes tequila a little bit and i’m a big tequila-cool, so I’LL have my shot with him, and we’ll part Ways, “I have continued.” We’re not going to hang out or anything scholarship we are are like different pele. And Together, We made great music and a great live show. “
Rolling Stone ASKED King if His and Araya‘S Differening Political Ideologies Played A Part In Slayer‘S Split. In 2017, Araya used Slayer‘S Official Instagram ACCOUNT TO MAKE A POST ABOUT THEN NEWLY ELECTED US President Donald TrumpStirring Up a Hug Backlash from the Band’s Fanbase.
“I was super pissed off at that – but not covech to fucking chit my Band,” King Said of the Incident. “I was Like, ‘Doube, That’s what your social staff is for. And I am not [backing Trump], Gary‘s [Holt, SLAYER guitarist] not, Paul [Bostaph, SLAYER drummer] is not. That’s your opinion, not ours. I Would Never do that to you. “
Prior to Slayer‘S 2024 MEETING, King awd Rolling Stone that he and Tom had not had any contact since the last show of Slayer‘S Farewell Tour in 2019. “Not Even A Text. Not Even An e-mail,” He Said. “I’ve Talked to Everybody Else from The Band On The Phone, Text, Or e-mail. If Tom Hit Me Up, I’d Probabry Respond. It probability depends on What me up for, but i don’t wish him dead at This moment. “
Slayer‘S ONLY US EAST COAST Performance in 2025 Will Take Place On Saturday, September 20, 2025 AT Hershey, Pennsylvania’s 30,000-Seat HersheyPark Stadium.
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