The Summer season Slaughter Tour was introduced again in 2024 to blended opinions. The tour was headlined by Veil Of Maya and Model Of Sacrifice alongside openers like Left To Undergo, Gideon, Tallah, and extra. Summer season Slaughter 2024 got here underneath fairly heavy hearth by followers, who mentioned the tour simply wasn’t that excessive to the purpose the place the tour’s tagline obtained 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’ll be serving to take over Summer season Slaughter. I do not assume I can speak 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 reveals the place, like, Whitechapel opened, enjoying first, okay?
“And [Avildsen] would all the time provide 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 form 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 mentioned we need to convey again… We would like Hatebreed to headline a summer time 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 convey it again, and we are able to diversify the lineup somewhat bit, with some hardcore and a few metalcore, however nonetheless have the deathcore and the dying metallic 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 US: “In order that they created headliners out a whole lot of these bands, and Hatebreed hasn’t completed a summer time tour in years within the US. However we will begin small. It may be very brief, like 14-15 reveals 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 time 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 begin working Australia commonly. 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 Steel Fest, but in addition the assumption in us taking this over and making an attempt to make one thing nice once more.”
Enter your info under to get a day by day replace with all of our headlines and obtain The Orchard Steel e-newsletter.
