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Slayer is back on stage in 2025 with limited dates in the UK, Canada, and the U.S., featuring a stacked lineup at Hersheypark Stadium in September.

Black Sabbath’s final show is set for July, reuniting Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Bill Ward for one last time—alongside a massive lineup of metal legends.

Legendary thrash metal band Slayer formed in 1981 and, as you can imagine, they picked up lots of stories along the way to the top. Fans can now dig deeper into the group’s history with a new online museum on their website.

In a twist that nearly no one saw coming, Slayer is reuniting in 2024. The thrash metal pioneers have confirmed two performances for the fall: Chicago’s Riot Fest on September 22nd and Louisville, Kentucky’s Louder Than Life Festival on September 27th.

With their final tour dates scheduled for the end of this month, Slayer has released a new film called “The Repentless Killogy.” The release blends the trilogy of music videos released from their last album, “Repentless,” with concert footage from 2017.

Since announcing their farewell tour last year, Slayer has been unleashing their signature thrash metal around the world. The band announced the final leg of dates, dubbed “The Final Campaign,” with Primus, Ministry, and Philip Anselmo.

EMG has introduced three new signature sets of pickups with three of the biggest metal bass stars: Slayer’s Tom Araya, Anthrax’s Frank Bello, and Megadeth’s David Ellefson. Introduced at the 2019 Winter NAMM Show, each of the sets was dialed in with the artists.

The metal titans in Slayer have announced a new round of concerts as part of their farewell tour. The new North American leg will be the tour’s fifth leg overall since they announced the world tour in January.

After 35 years of producing some of the most brutal music ever written, Slayer has announced they’ll be making their exit after one more world tour. The legendary thrash band made the announcement with a YouTube video: While the news was a surprise, it may not be a shock to fans who have been keeping up with the members. Bassist...

Legendary thrash metal band Slayer has released its eleventh studio album, Repentless. According to bassist and vocalist Tom Araya some material for the album was written prior to the May 2013 death of band co-founder and co-guitarist Jeff Hanneman. Gary Holt (Exodus) started playing with Slayer back in 2011 and handled guitar parts on Repentless. With the loss of Hanneman,...

Slayer will be hitting the road in October to headline their first North American Tour in two years with support from Gojira and 4ARM. The tour kicks off October 22nd at the Sullivan Sports Arena in Anchorage, Alaska before heading down the West Coast and across the U.S. to end at the Tsongas Arena in Boston. It’s been a tumultuous...

Slayer is once again working on a new album, to be the follow-up to 2009’s World Painted Blood. The news was broken by drummer Dave Lombardo via Twitter. Fronted by bassist/vocalist Tom Araya, the metal giants had begun preliminary work on a new record earlier this year when guitarist Jeff Hanneman suffered from a flesh-eating virus in his arm, reportedly...