SLAYER ANNOUNCES LEG FIVE: NORTH AMERICA OF THE BAND’S FINAL WORLD TOUR Episode 3 of “Slayer Looks Back on 37 Years” Video Interview Series Released Today “5 STARS…an extraordinary farewell gig from the kings of thrash metal – they totally slayed it. If Slayer do retire, replacing them may prove impossible.” — The Times of London |
 LOS ANGELES, CA – MONDAY, December 10, 2018 – With Leg Three: Europe of Slayer’s Final World Tour having wrapped up this past Saturday, dates in Australia, Japan, the South Pacific, and the final European dates announced in the past weeks, today Slayer announces Leg Five: North America of its Final World Tour.
Maintaining the band’s ethos of “play as many places as possible to make it easier for everyone to see the band one last time,” Leg Five will kick off May 2, 2019 at the Ak-Chin Amphitheatre in Phoenix AZ and see the band performing 16 shows across the Southern states and then up the east coast, culminating at the Xfinity Center Amphitheatre in Mansfield, MA on May 25. Lamb of God, Amon Amarth and Cannibal Corpse will support Slayer on all Leg Five dates. Special Slayer VIP Packages will be available for all dates; those details are accessible here: https://bit.ly/slayervip Also today, Episode 3 of “Slayer Looks Back on 37 Years” video interview series is released. Tom Araya and Kerry King talk about getting their first record deal and the release of Show No Mercy; Tom, Kerry and Paul Bostaph remember Paul’s first meeting with the band and his subsequent audition to be Slayer’s drummer. Check out the clip HERE. With still more dates coming – it’s a big world and it takes time to transverse it – confirmed 2019 dates for Slayer’s Final World Tour are as follows:
MARCH Leg Four: Australia, Japan, South Pacific (Anthrax and Behemoth will support on headline dates) 7 Brisbane Riverstage, Brisbane, Australia 9 Download Festival, Sydney, Australia 11 Download Festival, Melbourne, Australia 15 Eventfinda Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand 17 Horncastle Arena, Christchurch, New Zealand 21 Download Festival, Chiba Prefecture, Japan 23 Pulp Summer Slam, Manila, Philippines
 MAY Leg Five: North America (Lamb of God, Amon Amarth and Cannibal Corpse will support on all dates) 2 Ak-Chin Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ 3 Isleta Amphitheatre, Albuquerque, NM 5 UTEP/Don Haskins Center, El Paso, TX 7 Bert Ogden Arena, Edinburg, TX 8 The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Dallas, TX 10 MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa, FL 11 Coral Sky Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, Florida 13 Big Sandy Superstore Arena, Huntington, WV 14 Merriweasther Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD 16 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, Noblesville, IN 17 Providence Medical Center Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS 19 DTE Energy Music Center, Clarkston, MI 20 Covel Centre, Youngstown, OH 22 Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, ON CANADA 24 BB&T Pavilion, Camden, NJ 25 Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA
JUNE Leg Six: Europe (Support acts for headline dates TBA) 4 Arena Gilwice, Gilwice, Poland 6 Sweden Rock, Solvesborg, Sweden 8 Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany 9 Rock Im Park, Nurnberg, Germany 11 Sports Arena, Budapest, Hungary 13 Leipzig Arena, Leipzig, Germany 14 Nova Rock, Nickelsdorf, Austria Weekend of June 14-16 Download, Donington Park, UK 19 Arena, Geneva, Switzerland 21 Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium 23 Hellfest, Clisson, France 25 Tipsport Arena, Prague, Czechoslovakia 28 Tons of Rock, Oslo, Norway 29 Tuska Open Air, Helsinki, Finland
JULY July 3-6 Resurrection Festival, Viviero, Spain 5 VOA Heavy Rock Festival, Lisbon, Portugal 7 Rock The Castle, Verona, Italy 10 Metalheadmeeting, Bucharest, Romania 11 Airport Park, Sofia, Bulgaria 13 Rockwave Festival, Athens, Greece Weekend of July 27-28* Heavy Montreal, Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, QC
AUGUST 3 Messegelande, Balingen, Germany
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