Slayer performed their “closing” present on November 30, 2019 at The Discussion board in Inglewood, CA. Kerry King dropped his chains, Tom Araya dropped off the face of the earth, and that was that. Then suddenly, Slayer introduced reunion reveals for 2024. Slayer performed Riot Fest in September and Aftershock in October, with a possible European date to be announced for 2025.
So what does the longer term maintain for extra Slayer reunion reveals? Based on Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph in an interview with Nikki Blakk, Aftershock was the final one so far as he is aware of.
“We performed our final one… If all people’s asking that query [about the possibility of more Slayer gigs], I’m too, however I haven’t got the reply to that query. So, yeah, Aftershock was the final one. And all of us hope that there will likely be extra.” Bostaph added: “It is enjoyable to play Slayer songs. So, hopefully that may occur sooner or later. However [as of right now], that was the final present.”
Bostaph later talked about that he by no means thought Slayer would occur once more. Which particularly is smart contemplating Bostaph additionally performs in Kerry King‘s solo band – who knew each issues would occur on the similar time?
“How do I really feel [about the shows]? Um, wow. That is a extremely good query. I am type of a bit drained. Sacramento was a whole lot of visitors there, a whole lot of mates, to not point out the present. So it was a whole lot of vitality simply put out. However every one of many reveals type of felt that manner as a result of it was type of overwhelming as a result of I by no means thought it could occur once more. So, yeah, it was a whole lot of relearning songs that you simply actually thought you probably did know, however you hadn’t performed them for 5 years. So, I do not know — it was nice. I really feel prefer it was most likely top-of-the-line stay experiences I had as a result of the followers had been actually into it. They had been hungry for it, and that type of made it particular.”
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