The Summer season Slaughter Tour was introduced again in 2024 to blended critiques. 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 fireplace by followers, who stated the tour simply wasn’t that excessive to the purpose the place the tour’s tagline bought modified from “most excessive tour of the yr” to “The All Day Rager Is Lastly Again!”.
Now in a surprising 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’ll be serving to take over Summer season 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 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, 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 had been all the time 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 wish 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 yr, I believed we may do that.
“We are able to carry 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 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: “In order that they created headliners out numerous these bands, and Hatebreed hasn’t executed a summer season tour in years within the US. However we will begin small. It may be very brief, like 14-15 exhibits and we will take small bands; we will 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 world… As a result of, it is summer season in different elements 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 recurrently. Once more, we simply did Knotfest and simply crushed it, and in South America too. So yeah, so we bought 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 in addition the idea in us taking this over and making an attempt to make one thing nice once more.”
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