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Slayer Gear Up For First Australian Tour In Five Years

posted Feb 27, 2007 at 8:29 AM by deathbringer.  (14 Comments)

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Coming off a 24-date, SRO North American headlining tour and their first-ever Grammy win, thrash icons SLAYER will head off to Australia for their first tour there in five years. The six dates will begin on April 12 in Perth, and will take the band to the country's major markets - Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, with the April 21 closing date in Auckland, New Zealand. The critically-acclaimed, Grammy-nominated band Mastodon will be special guests on all dates.

Earlier this month, Slayer was awarded the Grammy for the track "Eyes of the Insane" in the category of Best Metal Performance. "Eyes of the Insane" is on the band's most recent album, "Christ Illusion," which was released on August 8, 2006 and became the band's highest-ever chart debut, coming in at #5 on Billboard's Top 200 in the U.S. "Christ Illusion" was also a top 10 album internationally in its first week.

After the Australian dates, Slayer will play the major European festivals over the summer. That itinerary will be announced shortly.

Slayer's Australian tour dates are as follows:

April 12 Metro City , Perth, Australia
April 14 Thebarton Theatre , Adelaide, Australia
April 15 Vodafone Arena , Melbourne, Australia
April 17 Hordern Pavilion , Sydney, Australia
April 19 Riverstage , Brisbane, Australia
April 21 St. James Theatre , Auckland, NZ

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14 Comments on "Slayer Gear Up For Australian Tour"

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1. efleming writes:

Thrash/punk icons? I buy thrash but this article has a skewed idea of what punk is. Albeit they are closer to punk than say Audioslave...

# Feb 27, 2007 @ 3:38 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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2. deathbringer writes:

ALL of their releases say that. I usually remove the punk reference, but I missed it this time (but removed it now). They do one punk-tribute album and they get labelled punk...? I don't get it either.

# Feb 27, 2007 @ 4:23 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. DISEMBOWLER writes:

SO... THE AUSSIES ARE GONNA GET SLAYED.....THATS COOL, AS LONGS AS THEY DONT START TALKIN LIKE THEM..... SLAYER RULES

# Feb 27, 2007 @ 4:51 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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4. Skript writes:

Slayer Slayer!

# Feb 27, 2007 @ 5:25 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. Bubb513 writes:

YER goin 2 the adelaide show

# Feb 27, 2007 @ 5:43 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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6. slayerdisciple writes:

to post 1 + 2 they r labeled punk because the song structures on Reign in Blood resembled hardcore/punk as opposed to thrash or heavy metal

# Feb 27, 2007 @ 9:57 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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7. THE MOST PISSED OFF MAN IN AUSTRALIA writes:

Hey for anyone who needs to know the Perth show is now being held at Robinson Pavillion at Claremont Showgrounds and there are more tikets on sale now that they have changed venue.

Get in quick or you will miss f***ING SSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAYYYYYEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Mastodon there f***ing sick aswell.

# Feb 28, 2007 @ 4:06 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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8. Skript writes:

negative on teh mastodon.... but SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

# Feb 28, 2007 @ 9:06 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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9. hatebreedfromhell writes:

slayer needs to stop playing music there a bunch of f*gs that cant even scream.thay sound like f**king homos.

# Feb 28, 2007 @ 1:09 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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10. Valentine_no_more writes:

Stop F***ING disrespecting one of the all time greats. U Stupid F***ER! Heavy Metal is not just SCREAMING!!!!! I don't hate HATEBREED but I do Hate people who are metalheads and dis SLAYER who paved the F***IN' way 4 HATEBREED!!!!!!!

# Feb 28, 2007 @ 1:33 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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11. Spirit In Black writes:

I might pay more attention to hatebreedfromhell if you could learn to spell dumbf**k!!!!!

I'm seeing Slayer in Sydney and Brisbane....hopefully it'll be enough to keepme going until they next grace the shores of Australia.

# Mar 5, 2007 @ 6:05 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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12. Valentine_no_more writes:

Bring the METAL around the globe....SLAYER lives on.......

# Mar 5, 2007 @ 1:17 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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13. SNAKE writes:

IF YOUR A METALHEAD, YOU SHOULD LIKE SLAYER HATEBREED, I DON'T USUALLY CARE ABOUT VOCALS, BUT, YOU SHOULD AT LEAST LIKE THE GUITAR WORK, ME I'M A MAJOR SLAYER FAN, BUT MAYBE I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU HATEBREED, BUT TO ME SLAYER, IS ONE OF THE TOP METAL BANDS, AND I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD BE DISREPECTING THEM, NOW IF YOU WROTE SOMETHING LIKE MACHINE MAN, THAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT, HE'S AN A**HOLE, BUT MAYBE I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU, BUT PLEASE IN MY PRESENCE TRY NOT DISREPECTING SLAYER, ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN THE WORLD

# Mar 6, 2007 @ 3:53 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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14. SNAKE writes:

SPELL CHECK, I MEAN, DISRESPECTING

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