The Summer time Slaughter Tour was introduced again in 2024 to combined 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 underneath fairly heavy hearth 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 12 months” to “The All Day Rager Is Lastly Again!”.
Now in a surprising 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 will be serving to take over Summer time Slaughter. I do not suppose I can discuss concerning the lineup, however that is one thing that I actually wished to do. Particularly after the response to final 12 months’s lineup… Ash is a Maverick and a visionary. And if you happen to have a look at the early days of Summer time Slaughter… There was reveals the place, like, Whitechapel opened, enjoying first, okay?
“And [Avildsen] would at all times provide us this tour, and we by no means did it, as a result of we have been at all times constructing in Europe. However now that we type 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 wish to convey again… We would like Hatebreed to headline a summer time tour. And so after the the response [to The Summer Slaughter Tour] from final 12 months, I assumed we may do that.
“We will convey it again, and we will diversify the lineup slightly bit, with some hardcore and a few metalcore, however nonetheless have the deathcore and the dying steel and the crossover, or no matter you wish to name it.”
Jasta additionally revealed that whereas he cannot touch upon the lineup simply but, he does wish to take the tour outdoors america: “So that they created headliners out numerous these bands, and Hatebreed hasn’t achieved a summer time tour in years within the US. However we’ll begin small. It may be very brief, 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 international… As a result of, it is summer time in different elements of the world, at completely different locations, like Australia, like South America.
“And we [Hatebreed] additionally have to be… We’re lengthy overdue to start out working Australia commonly. Once more, we simply did Knotfest and simply crushed it, and in South America too. So yeah, so we obtained work to do, nevertheless it’s good issues to have and it is good alternatives to have.
“And yeah, I actually, I recognize Ash giving Tim [Borror of Sound Talent Group] and myself the assist of not solely Milwaukee Metallic Fest, but in addition the idea in us taking this over and attempting to make one thing nice once more.”
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