With Leg Three: Europe of Slayer’s Final World Tour having wrapped up this past Saturday, dates in Australia, Japan, the South Pacific, and the final European dates announced in the past weeks, today Slayer announces Leg Five: North America of its Final World Tour. Maintaining the band’s ethos of “play as many places as possible to make it easier for everyone to see the band one last time,” Leg Five will kick off May 2, 2019 at the Ak-Chin Amphitheatre in Phoenix AZ and see the band performing 16 shows across the Southern states and then up the east coast, culminating at the Xfinity Center Amphitheatre in Mansfield, MA on May 25. Lamb of God, Amon Amarth and Cannibal Corpse will support Slayer on all Leg 5 dates.
Also today, Episode 3 of “Slayer Looks Back on 37 Years” video interview series is released. Tom Araya and Kerry King talk about getting their first record deal and the release of Show No Mercy; Tom, Kerry and Paul Bostaph remember Paul’s first meeting with the band and his subsequent audition to be Slayer’s drummer.
With still more dates coming – it’s a big world and it takes time to transverse it – confirmed 2019 dates for Slayer’s Final World Tour are as follows:
MARCH
Leg Four: Australia, Japan, South Pacific
(Anthrax and Behemoth will support on headline dates)
7 Brisbane Riverstage, Brisbane, Australia
9 Download Festival, Sydney, Australia
11 Download Festival, Melbourne, Australia
15 Eventfinda Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand
17 Horncastle Arena, Christchurch, New Zealand
21 Download Festival, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
23 Pulp Summer Slam, Manila, Philippines (support TBA)
MAY
Leg Five: North America
(Lamb of God, Amon Amarth and Cannibal Corpse will support on all dates)
2 Ak-Chin Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ
3 Isleta Amphitheatre, Albuquerque, NM
5 UTEP/Don Haskins Center, El Paso, TX
7 Bert Ogden Arena, Edinburg, TX
8 The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Dallas, TX
10 MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa, FL
11 Coral Sky Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, Florida
13 Big Sandy Superstore Arena, Huntington, WVa
14 Merriweasther Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
16 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, Noblesville, IN
17 Providence Medical Center Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS
19 DTE Energy Mush Center, Clarkston, MI
20 Covel Centre, Youngstown, OH
22 Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, ON CANADA
24 BB&T Pavilion, Camden, NJ
25 Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA
JUNE
Leg Six: Europe
(Support acts for headline dates TBA)
4 Arena Gilwice, Gilwice, Poland
6 Sweden Rock, Solvesborg, Sweden
8 Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany
9 Rock im Park, Nurnberg, Germany
11 Sports Arena, Budapest, Hungary
13 Leipzig Arena, Leipzig, Germany
14 Nova Rock, Nickelsdorf, Austria
Weekend of June 14-16*
Download, Donington Park, UK
19 Arena, Geneva, Switzerland
21 Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium
23 Hellfest, Clisson, France
25 Tipsport Arena, Prague, Czechoslovakia
28 Tons of Rock, Oslo, Norway
29 Tuska Open Air, Helsinki, Finland
JULY
July 3-6*
Resurrection Festival, Viviero, Spain
5 VOA Heavy Rock Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
7 Rock The Castle, Verona, Italy
10 Metalheadmeeting, Bucharest, Romania
11 Airport Park, Sofia, Bulgaria
13 Rockwave Festival, Athens, Greece
Weekend of July 27-28*
Heavy Montreal, Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, QC
AUGUST
3 Messegelande, Balingen, Germany
*Exact performance date to be announced.
