The Summer season Slaughter Tour was introduced again in 2024 to blended evaluations. The tour was headlined by Veil Of Maya and Model Of Sacrifice alongside openers like Left To Endure, Gideon, Tallah, and extra. Summer season 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 stunning twist, Summer season 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 season 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 12 months’s lineup… Ash is a Maverick and a visionary. And in the event you have a look at the early days of Summer season Slaughter… There was exhibits 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 had been at all times constructing in Europe. However now that we type of made it the place we should 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 carry again… We wish Hatebreed to headline a summer season tour. And so after the the response [to The Summer Slaughter Tour] from final 12 months, I assumed we may do that.
“We are able to carry it again, and we will diversify the lineup somewhat bit, with some hardcore and a few metalcore, however nonetheless have the deathcore and the dying 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 the USA: “So that they created headliners out lots of these bands, and Hatebreed hasn’t executed a summer season tour in years within the US. However we will begin small. It is going to be very brief, like 14-15 exhibits and we will take small bands; we will 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 should be… We’re lengthy overdue to start out working Australia usually. Once more, we simply did Knotfest and simply crushed it, and in South America too. So yeah, so we obtained work to do, but it surely’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 additionally the idea in us taking this over and making an attempt to make one thing nice once more.”
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