Heavy metal legends Slayer made their return to the live stage after several years away last year for select headline/festival dates. The thrash icons have just announced another show set for Sept. 20 at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania topping a bill that also features Exodus, Suicidal Tendencies, Knocked Loose, Power Trip and Cavalera.
The show will also be hosted by longtime metal fan and WWE star Damian Priest, whose finishing move, “South Of Heaven,” is named after the Slayer classic.
Slayer bassist/singer Tom Araya commented on the show: “Slayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeerrrrrr!!!!!! One night only, stacked line up, it’s going to be f*cking sick!!!! Hersheypark — be there… If not, you’re either dead, in jail or a sissy!!!!!”
Guitarist Kerry King also talked about the upcoming show saying, “Last year, Slayer played only two shows, and those shows affected me like playing the ‘Big Four’ shows did. When we played our first show last year in Chicago, I figured it was going to be great for the fans; maybe there would be some people who had never seen us play before, but the reaction was just completely overwhelming. The fans reacted to us like I’d expect them to react to the biggest band on the planet. It was amazing. So for the Hershey concert, we’ll play a Slayer show, we’ll have all of our big fire effects, and just burn everything like we used to.”
King added: “This will be the first time Slayer has played with Power Trip or Knocked Loose, but I am well aware of them from word of mouth, and hearing their music on Liquid Metal. I’m looking forward to seeing them live.”
King also provided guitar work for Damian Priest’s entrance song, “Rise For The Night.” Priest talked about his love for metal in a previous interview with Loudersound.
“I grew up in an area that was 100% hip hop, and then moving to a different town and making new friends, my buddy would always play Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, very thrash metal, but also Swedish influences like In Flames and Soilwork,” he said. “And I just remember him playing Children Of Bodom, and I was like, ‘OK, some of this stuff is like Undertaker music!’ As a wrestler I was like, ‘Yeah, play Undertaker-style music! Play that stuff that makes me feel something!’ But I would say that Metallica and Ozzy were my first where I was like, ‘Oh, I love this.’ That’s what really got me hooked on heavy metal.”
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