Slayer Announce First Canadian Show Since 2019 Farewell Tour

The Slayer reunion train just keeps rolling on, as the band announced their first Canadian show since their not-so-farewell tour in 2019. The show will be part of the Festival d’été de Québec, which is a massive, 11-day festival featuring a wide range of eclectic bands that don’t quite go together. Even just looking at the festival’s headliners, they range from Slayer to Avril Lavine to Def Leppard to Rod Stewart to Shania Twain. It’s not often you get to hear “Raining Blood” and “Man I Feel Like a Woman!” on the same stage.

Slayer will be headlining the festival on July 11, which will be the ninth day of the fest, and the full list of bands playing that day is as follows:

Slayer
Bob Sinclair
Mastodon
Sickick
Mzerg
Cheat Codes
Sandveiss
Veggi
Bibi Club
Original Gros Bonnett
Linka Moja
Bradeazy
thaïs
Suray Sertin
Social Club

The announcement comes amidst the many, many interviews given recently by Kerry King in which he insists that Slayer will never, ever, ever tour again and will stick to playing one-off shows and festivals. In his most recent denial in an interview with Metal Roos, King said:

“We’re never gonna tour again. We’re never gonna make a record again. Mark my word: we’re never gonna make a record again, we’re never gonna tour again. Because that was the last thing. We said [back in 2018], ‘This is our final tour.’ It took five years for us to come and say, ‘Hey, here’s a couple of shows, five-year anniversary.’”

So far, Slayer has stuck to King’s word, as the only three dates that Slayer has on their calendar are all festivals. They’ve got the “Back to the Beginning” show as part of the final Black Sabbath performance that has basically been turned into an all-day festival as well as Louder Than Life, which is scheduled for September. But at least our neighbors up north can have a chance to catch the thrash metal legends once again.