The Summer time Slaughter Tour was introduced again in 2024 to combined evaluations. 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 below fairly heavy hearth by followers, who mentioned the tour simply wasn’t that excessive to the purpose the place the tour’s tagline acquired 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 speak in regards to 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 should you take a look at the early days of Summer time Slaughter… There was reveals the place, like, Whitechapel opened, enjoying first, okay?
“And [Avildsen] would all the time supply us this tour, and we by no means did it, as a result of we have been all the time constructing in Europe. However now that we type of made it the place we must be in Europe, the place both we’re headlining or we’re second or third from the highest — we targeted on Europe for a very long time — I mentioned we need to deliver again… We wish Hatebreed to headline a summer season tour. And so after the the response [to The Summer Slaughter Tour] from final yr, I believed we might do that.
“We are able to deliver it again, and we will diversify the lineup just a little bit, with some hardcore and a few metalcore, however nonetheless have the deathcore and the demise steel 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 outdoors america: “In order that they created headliners out a variety of these bands, and Hatebreed hasn’t finished a summer season tour in years within the US. However we’ll begin small. It will 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 season in different components of the world, at completely different locations, like Australia, like South America.
“And we [Hatebreed] additionally must be… We’re lengthy overdue to begin working Australia frequently. Once more, we simply did Knotfest and simply crushed it, and in South America too. So yeah, so we acquired work to do, nevertheless 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 Metallic Fest, but in addition the assumption in us taking this over and making an attempt to make one thing nice once more.”
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