The Summer season 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 season Slaughter 2024 got here beneath fairly heavy hearth by followers, who stated the tour simply wasn’t that excessive to the purpose the place the tour’s tagline received modified from “most excessive tour of the yr” 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 suppose I can discuss in regards to the lineup, however that is one thing that I actually needed to do. Particularly after the response to final yr’s lineup… Ash is a Maverick and a visionary. And in case you have a look at the early days of Summer season Slaughter… There was exhibits the place, like, Whitechapel opened, taking part in first, okay?
“And [Avildsen] would at all times supply 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 must 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 time tour. And so after the the response [to The Summer Slaughter Tour] from final yr, I assumed we may do that.
“We will carry it again, and we will diversify the lineup slightly bit, with some hardcore and a few metalcore, however nonetheless have the deathcore and the loss of life 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 exterior the USA: “In order that they created headliners out loads of these bands, and Hatebreed hasn’t finished a summer time tour in years within the US. However we’ll begin small. It’ll be very brief, like 14-15 exhibits and we’ll take small bands; we’ll take the longer term 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 must be… We’re lengthy overdue to begin working Australia commonly. Once more, we simply did Knotfest and simply crushed it, and in South America too. So yeah, so we received work to do, nevertheless it’s good issues to have and it is good alternatives to have.
“And yeah, I actually, I admire Ash giving Tim [Borror of Sound Talent Group] and myself the help 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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