The Summer time Slaughter Tour was introduced again in 2024 to blended opinions. The tour was headlined by Veil Of Maya and Model Of Sacrifice alongside openers like Left To Endure, Gideon, Tallah, and extra. Summer time Slaughter 2024 got here beneath fairly heavy fireplace by followers, who stated the tour simply wasn’t that excessive to the purpose the place the tour’s tagline obtained modified from “most excessive tour of the yr” to “The All Day Rager Is Lastly Again!”.
Now in a stunning twist, Summer time Slaughter has been transferred over to Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta. Jasta revealed the information throughout an look on the Garza Podcast, saying: “I’ll be serving to take over Summer time Slaughter. I do not assume I can discuss concerning the lineup, however that is one thing that I actually wished to do. Particularly after the response to final yr’s lineup… Ash is a Maverick and a visionary. And when you take a look at the early days of Summer time Slaughter… There was reveals the place, like, Whitechapel opened, taking part in first, okay?
“And [Avildsen] would all the time supply us this tour, and we by no means did it, as a result of we had been all the time constructing in Europe. However now that we form of made it the place we have to be in Europe, the place both we’re headlining or we’re second or third from the highest — we centered on Europe for a very long time — I stated we need to deliver again… We would like Hatebreed to headline a summer season tour. And so after the the response [to The Summer Slaughter Tour] from final yr, I believed we may do that.
“We will deliver it again, and we are able to diversify the lineup a bit of bit, with some hardcore and a few metalcore, however nonetheless have the deathcore and the dying metallic and the crossover, or no matter you need to name it.”
Jasta additionally revealed that whereas he cannot touch upon the lineup simply but, he does need to take the tour exterior america: “So that they created headliners out lots of these bands, and Hatebreed hasn’t performed a summer season tour in years within the US. However we’ll begin small. It may be very quick, like 14-15 reveals and we’ll take small bands; we’ll take the long run bands, for higher or for worse.
“So we’re not anticipating it to be blowout bonkers, however we’re simply, we’re additionally taking it world… As a result of, it is summer season in different components of the world, at totally different locations, like Australia, like South America.
“And we [Hatebreed] additionally have to be… We’re lengthy overdue to start out working Australia often. Once more, we simply did Knotfest and simply crushed it, and in South America too. So yeah, so we obtained work to do, however it’s good issues to have and it is good alternatives to have.
“And yeah, I actually, I respect Ash giving Tim [Borror of Sound Talent Group] and myself the assist of not solely Milwaukee Steel Fest, but additionally the idea in us taking this over and making an attempt to make one thing nice once more.”
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