Slayer's upcoming US tour

According to Revolver magazine, SLAYER and MARILYN MANSON will co-headline this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour, which is scheduled to kick off July 10 in Sacramento, California.

The festival billing is as follows:

Main Stage:

SLAYER
MARILYN MANSON
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

Hot Topic Stage:

CANNIBAL CORPSE
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
JOB FOR A COWBOY
BEHEMOTH
WHITECHAPEL

Jägermeister Stage:

TRIVIUM
ALL THAT REMAINS
GOD FORBID

The dates are as follows (all dates are subject to change):

Jul. 10 - Sacramento, CA
Jul. 11 - San Francisco, CA
Jul. 12 - San Bernardino, CA
Jul. 14 - Seattle, WA
Jul. 17 - Phoenix, AZ
Jul. 18 - Albuquerque, NM
Jul. 19 - Denver, CO
Jul. 21 - Kansas City
Jul. 22 - St. Louis, MO
Jul. 24 - Atlanta, GA
Jul. 25 - Indianapolis, IN
Jul. 26 - Chicago, IL
Jul. 28 - Toronto, ON
Jul. 29 - Scranton, PA
Jul. 31 - Cleveland, OH
Aug. 01 - Pittsburgh, PA
Aug. 02 - Detroit, MI
Aug. 04 - Boston, MA
Aug. 06 - Virginia Beach, VA
Aug. 07 - Camden, NJ
Aug. 08 - Hartford, CT
Aug. 09 - Washington, DC
Aug. 11 - Tampa, FL
Aug. 12 - West Palm Beach, FL
Aug. 14 - Dallas, TX
Aug. 15 - Houston, TX
Aug. 16 - San Antonio, TX


Slayer are rumored to play a three week tour before this with only two openers in the smaller markets they won't hit on this thing.



I personally hate these types of tours as there is always only one or two bands I ever have a interest in. I would much rather see the small headlining your and get a full set instead of the festival set that would probably only be an hour. Plus it should be a hell of a lot cheaper than the fest price.

I dig Slayer and can see why they would want to do a festival and get to play a short set but I just can't bring myself to pay the outrageous price for such a short set. That is why I would never go to an Ozzfest.

What do you all think? I personally can't stand any of these bands besides Slayer. Cannibal was allright back in the early 90's but I guess I just got burnt out on them too soon or something. I mean I've heard them all besides Whitechapel but it seems all these US fests are always loaded with one or two established greats and a whole bunch of here today, gone tomorrow bands.

I love Slayer and haven't missed a show anywhere near me since 88 but I don't think I will see this unless its hella cheap.

"The Hot Topic Stage"? Wow, I hate America.

How in the hell did Cannibal Corpse end up on the Hot Topic Stage? Are goth and mallrats digging Cannibal Corpse now?

manny wrote:

How in the hell did Cannibal Corpse end up on the Hot Topic Stage? Are goth and mallrats digging Cannibal Corpse now?

Well, Cannibal Corpse are probably the best known "death metal" band out there, due to Ace Ventura and the "controversy" they've had through their career.

Didn't Slayer and MM tour together once already last year? Seems odd that they'd team up again so soon, doesn't it?

SpectreFate wrote:

"The Hot Topic Stage"? Wow, I hate America.

???I don't get it???? what is it anyways?

Hot Topic is a store here in America that sells rock shirts to emo and goth kids.

SpectreFate wrote:

Hot Topic is a store here in America that sells rock shirts to emo and goth kids.

ah ok. I still haven't a clue what the hell emo is?

The Wikipedia definition is good enough:

Quote :

Mainstream emo (2000–present)


While Jimmy Eat World had played emocore-style music early in their career, by the time of the release of their 2001 album Bleed American, the band had downplayed its emo influences, releasing more pop-oriented singles such as "The Middle" and "Sweetness".
Newer bands that sounded like Jimmy Eat World (and, in some cases, like
the more melodic emo bands of the late 90s) were soon included in the
genre.^[16]
2003 saw the success of Chris Carrabba, the former singer of emo band Further Seems Forever, and his project Dashboard Confessional.
Carraba found himself part of the emerging "popular" emo scene.
Carrabba's music featured lyrics founded in deep diary-like outpourings
of emotion. While certainly emotional, the new "emo" had a far greater
appeal amongst adolescents than its earlier incarnations.^[17]
At the same time, use of the term "emo" expanded beyond the musical
genre, which added to the confusion surrounding the term. The word
"emo" became associated with open displays of strong emotion. Common
fashion styles and attitudes that were becoming idiomatic of fans of
similar "emo" bands also began to be referred to as "emo." As a result,
bands that were loosely associated with "emo" trends or simply
demonstrated emotion began to be referred to as emo.^[18]
In a strange twist, screamo,
a more aggressive sub-genre of emo that began in the early 90s, also
had a reformulation of sound and has found greater popularity in recent
years through bands such as Glassjaw.^[19]
The difficulty in defining "emo" as a genre may have started at the very beginning. In a 2003 interview by Mark Prindle, Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and Rites of Spring was asked how he felt about "being the creator of the emo genre." He responded:

I don't recognize that attribution. I've never recognized "emo" as a
genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I
know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets
labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But
honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock
bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that—what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What—they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

—Mark Prindle, "Interview with Guy Picciotto". MarkPrindle.com (2003).

um ok I guess. i know I had this discussion with some fellas at work one time and one of them was telling me about some band that did a song and then just stood on stage and cried for a good ten minutes. Whatever?




I'll try and get back on my original topic and say I love Slayer but I hate these festivals.

Slayer's probably the only band there I like. Not going.

Schbopo wrote:

Slayer's probably the only band there I like. Not going.

good cover up, we all know your mom wouldn't let you go anyway

sam wrote:

good cover up, we all know your mom wouldn't let you go anyway

She probably wouldn't. Not even gonna bother asking.

Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, and Behemoth are the only good bands on the entire bill. Glad this isn't coming to Vegas.

Also glad that this dumpster of doo-doo butt-stravaganza will not disgrace the great state of Minnesota either.

Pass. I'd only be interested in seeing Slayer and I've seen them a few times already.

its not a terrible line-up not good enough to make me go see it though (if i lived in america)