Slayer surprises fans with reunion shows in 2024 after farewell tour

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[Laughter] Slayer hey everyone it's Joe and Lauren and we are back with some super exciting news Slayer have reunited they said it wasn't going to happen everybody said it wasn't G to happen it's happening they're playing two shows uh it's super exciting we're here to talk all about it break down the news tell you what's going on tell us our reaction what was going on behind the scenes here when we found out the news it's a pretty funny story actually and then we're going to get into some of the stuff that's been going on with Slayer and Carri King and everyone since uh the farewell tour and get you up to speed uh super exciting stuff uh Lauren we also have a very exciting news real quick sorry everyone from the merch store we've got a brand new item don't we yeah we have a phone case which is super exciting so that's currently 15% off and so our t-shirts and hoodies we extended our president day sale that's not going to last so go take advantage of that but the phone case is brand brand new addition to the merch store so we're really excited about it but anyway all right so let's talk about this uh what are the first two shows that Slayer are going to be playing in 2024 their very first show since the reunion my heart is still palpitating from the news Okay so they're playing Riot Fest which is going to take place September 22nd well their performance is taking place in the 22nd and then a couple days later they're going to be playing Lou Than Life Festival in Kentucky so insane we got a little while to mentally prepare for that but I don't think any of us really entirely saw this coming I mean at least not today but in the long run this isn't something that any of us saw coming so crazy crazy day um yeah because Carrie just announced the solo album so like this is kind of the last thing that I think was on everybody's mind it was the last thing that was on my mind we got the news a few minutes early and I was like all right let's get the festival stuff like prepped it's like we've got Slayer and mly crew and slipnot and corn all right wait wait wait Slayer Slayer I was like hold on a second hold on what do you mean Slayer I thought you meant Carri King at first so I was like all right pick a Carri King and then all of a sudden it was like no no no this is actually Slayer back it's just a casual drop in the lineup announcement so that was freaking wild so we went into hyperdrive mode I'm talking 15 minutes we had to prepare this thing and yeah so need needless to say my Apple watch was tracking a bit higher of a heart rate than typic when I'm chilling and sitting down writing a story so it's just been crazy um you know sometimes we find stuff out early but this was not really the case we like I said 15 minutes we had about so uh we're just we're just a shock five minutes the lineup is going to be krie king Tom Mariah Gary Holt and Paul Bowa it was the the same lineup that's been touring up for the last few years before the farewell they all did the farewell tour together so that is the lineup that has returned and let's talk about a few of the reasons why this surprised all of us in the metal Community uh first Carri King I just literally like just announced a week or two ago his brand new solo album his brand new uh lineup for his solo band includes Mar igua from Death Angel who sounds awesome on the single Idle Hands he got Kyle Sanders from hell yeah on base and Paul Bowa is back behind the drums uh once again so like that's a really cool lineup they're going to be touring with lamb of God and Mastadon it's not out of the AR for an artist to do a solo thing and a band thing at the same time but he literally said to Rolling Stone that he hasn't spoken to Tom Mariah he hasn't gotten a single text a single email I don't know if they somehow happened to yeah no it's not possible there's no shot that in the last week that that just changed all of a sudden so I don't know we all got Bamboozled a bit H we Bamboozled let us straight and I feel a little bit uh I feel a little bit punked but it's it's all for the best yeah yeah I think that is uh possibly the art of the LIE when it comes to doing press and when you have a secret to keep you just play dumb and pretend like everything that you've said before is still that's the course and when it's time to reveal it then of course that's when everybody's going to talk about it like uh a lot of people knew that Guns and Roses the classic line well not the full classic lineup but that slash and Duff were going to be coming back we actually I remember asking Miles Kennedy we're like how did you keep that a secret he's like it's easy don't tell anyone uh that's really about it it's just you know keep your mouth shut until it's time to talk about something and these know these guys have been doing this for a very very very long time I'm sure this was quite coordinated but uh yeah did not see that coming especially after what Carrie had said about Tom that they haven't spoken maybe they're talking through managers or something like that but they are hardly the first band where some members you know very publicly don't get along super well look at the Rolling Stones yeah Mick and Keith are like they said that they're not friends they're more like brothers so they they fight like brothers but yeah that happens a lot I mean System of a Down they're another example yeah there there's tons of bands who the the members seem like they don't really get along but then you put them back together on a stage and all is typically well typically and it's important because the music has to live on right and we all everybody's been wanting Slayer back ever since they stepped off stage for the last time but it always comes back to the music in the Legacy and maybe you think you want to retire in that moment and I'm I'm sure everyone was very heartfelt about that I mean Carrie said that they retired too early it was really Tom wanted to retire and he said collect his pension um I remember talking to him at Chicago open air about that um and he was ready and everybody can be ready at that time and think so and then you're allowed to have your feelings change you have to also take into consideration that somebody who spends their entire career traveling making music getting back on the road and having this kind of very fast-paced musical lifestyle when you just stop that I mean we don't know what he's been doing this whole time time but he might have gotten bored I feel like my my dad just retired a few months ago and he's already like doesn't know what to do with himself so I feel like it just if you if you feel like you got it maybe a break was enough and maybe you're just you know you're re-energized and you're ready to get back out there and go out there again and we don't know if this is like a full-blown like gonna release new music gonna go on tour type of reunion these are the only two shows that have been announced and this is all we know about it so far so we don't really have anything about that other than Carri King just saying that you know they want to get back up on stage they miss their fans and that's pretty much what it is so and yeah and if that's all it is is every year we get maybe two or three Slayer Festival headlining performances like I'm fine with that the band doesn't need to go tour the world if they don't want to I know for Tom it was a really big struggle um he talked to loudwire about this that uh for sleeping at night it's really difficult for him because he needs a CPAP machine uh to help with sleeping so he's really like taking a series of short naps while he's on tour he's only sleeping for for 2 3 4 hours at a time maybe doing it a couple times throughout the day when he's able to or you get off the bus and you're in a hotel and now you could finally get some sleep that's not fun especially when you've done that for you've played you know how many thousands of shows or whatever and to have to keep doing that and compromise your lifestyle in such a serious way like we all know how we get when we don't sleep it's not good it's ugly never mind being away from all your Creature Comforts at home and all the things that you know make you feel comfortable and secure and you're out on the road you're eating whatever food there is you can't pick your food sure you get a tour Rider and all that but it's just it's not the same as being home and uh that could be really rigorous and for anybody to say that you know Tom should or like has a responsibility to if anybody starts to talk like that uh no he's he put in the time he did this for a few decades um and we should just be willing to take whatever Slayer is going to get is going to give us yeah and so it was funny looking back back on it Rob Zombie was one of the people back in 2018 after they announced that it was going to be their farewell tour he said like this is not going to be a permanent thing and I think a lot of us were you know they've been away for almost five years by the time they play their shows this fall it'll have been just about five years since they've been on stage together so I think a lot of people were really convinced for a while that that was it but you know as we've seen with mly crew and we've seen with plenty of other bands that have announced their farewell their reun their their retirement and then they come back a couple years later it's what every band does and it's what we expect every band to do at this point we don't have the expectation that any band that retires is actually going to retire unless something serious happens to one of the members in the lineup or something like that um but it's okay to to have a band go away and say that they were going to retire and you know it makes us miss that band a lot and maybe we took it for granted that we could always see Slayer every 18 months maybe it was or something like that and now uh everybody missed Slayer so this is going to be a really big deal I've missed Slayer a lot it's been yeah half a decade went by really really fast and I'm really excited for all the all the young fans that got into Slayer and became a Slayer fan after the band retired now they get to see Slayer they get to see the band everybody's talking about the most menacing of the big four bands of all the big four bands they've stayed the most true to kind of like the original sound that they wanted to do they always stayed incredibly heavy uh pushed a lot of boundaries where everybody else went a little bit more in the radio Direction uh during the 90s which is fine everybody's allowed to make the music that they want to make but if you like stuff super fast and super evil and super heavy then Slayer are definitely your ban now there's also a potential for the big four shows to happen again because that was kind of like some of the other artists have talked about you know they'd be down for it as long as Slayer comes back but a lot of people didn't think Slayer come back and I you know I saw some comments before I did see like one or two people just briefly scamming through the comments someone said that you know they're not supportive of this move because it's some people just get upset about it they get bitter and they get all upset because they spent a lot of money to go to one of the final shows but then somebody else was countering that and saying listen now the people who never got a chance to see them get to see them so I am one of those people I think it would be cool to finally get to see them after all this time let's let's do like some speculation here do you think we're going to get new music from Slayer Carrie said he has like a whole another album basically already written and everything he said about his solo stuff he's like it sounds like Slayer because I'm the guy in Slayer and that's the kind of music I make um and I've heard the album it's good so it sounds it's as as advertised I would say um so I feel like he's right in the pocket yeah I mean okay so slayer's last album 2015 repentless uh I I don't know because I don't know if maybe by the time they were finished touring with that they knew they weren't going to release new music and then they announced their final tour and they were like okay like this is it or what the case was maybe they just didn't have the heart to make new albums anymore as of right now I think it kind of just seems like they want to take it slow uh like mly crew again to reference them that they just spent a while touring behind their already existing hits and everything and I mean they did pretty well on that tour so they saw that a lot of people there's demand to keep seeing them whether there's demand for new music isn't always necessarily the case some people just would prefer to see a band as a legacy act and continue on touring their existing discography but I don't know I think it's a little too soon to tell my mind can't even comprehend that right now just because of the day that we've had since this news dropped so what do you think I think yes and maybe it's a song Maybe it's an EP I just how often do you see bands really reuniting uh without the bands that were still really actively recording it's not like they were only releasing an album once every 15 years but I think as long as there's a desire to play on stage there's going to be a desire to create because that's who these people are they're musicians they that is what they do they create and they perform and they entertain like that's their you know their purpose in life let's say I'm sure everybody feels that who is a creative person um and to just be able to turn that switch off I don't know if there's an off switch for that kind of thing I really don't I see this being something that's going to be active for the next few years would you come back for just two shows in one year I mean they could always go the Guns and Roses route too um and release stuff that they didn't release previously maybe like some songs that already existed that they didn't put on albums and maybe it's kind of like all right like here like here's a treat here's a little serious [ __ ] treat for that they want to like share something that they have something to advertise as new as part of the performance I don't know NE I don't think that they have to do that but I think that that could be something cool yeah we could get music that is new to us not necessarily new yeah so like created in the reunion era it's very weird to be talking about like reunion era Slayer now like there's very distinctly two eras there's a lot of eras depending on how you want to break it up with lineups but uh it's always going to be reunion and pre-reunion it does really it's been a lifetime yeah feels like it's feels like it's been a lifetime since they said goodbye panta are back like let's talk about that so you know if everybody thought oh Slayer could never come back like panta are freaking backing on tour right now so yeah it could definitely Anything Could Happen um so it's nice to have panta back it's nice to have Slayer back it's it's a huge win for metal and uh I cannot wait to see what's next we got to get out to one of these shows yeah we're looking forward to getting to you know be on top of the beat now with the player everything that's going on I'm sure that there's going to be a ton of stuff coming out over the next couple weeks maybe or maybe they're going to keep us in the dark and they're going to continue to tease us like they apparently have been yeah very exciting time we're really happy to share with all of you let us know what you think of the big Slayer reunion in the comments uh like subscribe and check out that loudwire merch store uh we're going to be adding some other new things to it very soon uh also excited about that hail Slayer Slayer [Music]