Slayer & Rob Zombie announce headline US Tour

Tue, 29 Mar 2011

Slayer & Rob Zombie have announce a summer US & Canada tour together which will see them tour together for the first time since Ozzfest 1999!

The 12th date tour in North America will kick off on July 20th in Reading, PA and end in Seattle on August 6th, and will also include appearances as the Heavy T.O Festival in Canada.

"We haven't toured with Zombie since Ozzfest 1999, so you can expect no less than 'hell on earth,'" says Slayer guitarist Kerry King, "Total sonic annihilation and a visual bludgeoning. Bring your own body bag...".

Both Rob Zombie and Slayer will play full sets on the tour at every date and will take it in turn to close the show.  Support act Exodus has been confirmed to be joining the line up.

Tour dates are confirmed below:
JULY
20 Sovereign Center, Reading, PA
22 DTE Amphitheatre, Detroit, MI
23 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
24 Heavy T.O. at Downsview Park, Toronto, ON Canada -
27 MTS Centre, Winnipeg, MB Canada
29 Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon, SK Canada
30 Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, AB Canada
31 Rexall Place, Edmonton, AB Canada

AUGUST
2 Save-On-Foods Memorial Center, Victoria, BC Canada
3 Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC Canada
5 Rose Quarter Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
6 WaMu Theatre, Seattle, WA 


Meanwhile in other Slayer news, drummer Dave Lombardo has revealed that guitarist Jeff Hanneman has started to play guitar again after his hospitalisation earlier this year from a flesh eating disease he contracted from a spider bite.  "He's starting to play, he's getting ready and getting his arm back into shape for shows that are coming up." He says in an interview with Metalchroniques which you can watch here.


Whilst Jeff Hanneman recovered the band continued with their tour and brought in Exodus guitarist Gary Holt, who's band will join Slayer & Rob Zombie on tour this summer, the drummer explained in the interview why they chose Gary Holt to fill in.  "When we were at Hellfest in France, Gary was playing in Exodus, and he really impressed Kerry and myself, he did really good, we we're like 'man this guy's really good.' And then this happened with Jeff, Gary was the first person that came to mind, there was no second person"


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