On Saturday, November 2, 2019, Slayer - Tom
Araya/bass and vocals, Kerry King/guitars, Gary Holt/guitars, and Paul Bostaph/
drums - will set off on The Final Campaign, the seventh and final leg of its
farewell world tour. This last hurrah will stop at Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
Friday, November 15. Accompanying Slayer for this last ride are Primus,
Ministry, and Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals performing a vulgar display
of Pantera. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 12, at 10 a.m. at the KELOLAND
Box Office and www.ticketmaster.com. Limited VIP packages will be available.
Log on to
www.slayer.net for all ticketing and package details. Slayer’s Final
World Tour began on May 10, 2018 with the band’s intention to play as many
places as possible, to make it easy for the fans to see one last Slayer show
and say goodbye. By the time the 18-month trek wraps on November 30, the band will
have completed seven tour legs plus a series of one-off major summer festivals,
performing more than 140 shows in 30-countries and 40 U.S. states. Slayer’s
Final World Tour has been a wild ride. Three bus drivers, four truck drivers,
and a crew of 32 have traveled all over the world to set the stage for this
farewell. At most shows, Slayer’s pyro expert set off 160 pounds of propane and
ten liters of 99-percent isopropyl alcohol, prompting the Phoenix New Times
reviewer to comment on the “eyebrow-singeing pyrotechnics that could be felt
even ten rows behind the pit.” In Toronto, one diehard fan was ejected from the
concert before Slayer took the stage, so they jumped into Lake Ontario (that
surrounds the Budweiser Arena) and swam back to the venue.
The Tampa Bay Times’ Jay Cridlin wrote,
“Beginning with the throttling opener ‘Repentless,’ Slayer tore through their
set like a flaming cigarette boat across the river Styx, charring up a vicious
circle pit by the stage,” and Detroit’s Gary Graff noted in his Oakland Press
review the “10,000 headbangers who skipped the ‘Game of Thrones’ finale to pay
homage to the pioneering quartet.” “The sheer physicality of their show was
something to behold and was yet another indication that while the band may be
calling it a career, they are going out on top, playing at their absolute
best,” wrote Andy Lindquist for the SF Sonic, and Guy D’Astolfo with the
Youngtown Vindicator ended his review with this: “After the final note, Tom
Araya stood alone, scanning the crowd…forging a mental imprint of the moment.
After a minute or two, he went to the microphone and said, ‘I’m going to miss
you guys.’ Then he exited and the lights went up.”