Today (April 7th), Slayer announces a one-night-only show just added to the band’s handful of headline concerts set for this summer. Marking the band’s only U.S. East Coast performance in 2025, Slayer will headline Hershey, PA’s 30,000-seat Hersheypark Stadium on September 20th. Ticket pre-sales are available beginning tomorrow, April 8th at 10AM ET, ahead of the general on-sale set April 11th starting at 10AM ET. All tickets can be purchased at slayer.net. Doors are at 3PM ET and the show starts at 4PM ET.
The concert will be hosted by WWE Superstar Damian Priest, a well-known “metalhead” and a long-time Slayer fan. Priest’s signature “finisher” is Slayer’s South of Heaven, and Slayer’s Kerry King provided guitar for Priest’s Rise For The Night theme.
This exclusive concert brings together a multi-generation, powerhouse line up:
Slayer
Knocked Loose
Suicidal Tendencies
Power Trip
Cavalera (performing Chaos A.D. – exclusive)
Exodus (performing Bonded by Blood)
Said Tom Araya, “Slayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeerrrrrr!!!!!! One night only, stacked line up, it’s going to be f*cking sick!!!! Hersheypark – be there…..if not, you’re either dead, in jail or a sissy!!!!!”
About Slayer performing at the 30,000-seat Hersheypark Stadium, the band’s Kerry King commented, “Last year, Slayer played only two shows, and those shows affected me like playing The Big Four shows did. When we played our first show last year in Chicago, I figured it was going to be great for the fans, maybe there would be some people who had never seen us play before, but the reaction was just completely overwhelming. The fans reacted to us like I’d expect them to react to the biggest band on the planet. It was amazing. So for the Hershey concert, we’ll play a Slayer show, we’ll have all of our big fire effects, and just burn everything like we used to.”
Added King, “This will be the first time Slayer has played with Power Trip or Knocked Loose, but I am well aware of them from word of mouth, and hearing their music on Liquid Metal. I’m looking forward to seeing them live.”
“Honored to share the stage with one of our all-time favorite bands, Slayer. See you sick f*cks at the riff clinic.“ stated Power Trip.
“We’re excited to play with some of the best heavy bands of all time, past and present,” added Knocked Loose.
Slayer’s 2025 concert dates are as follows:
July:
3 Blackweir Fields, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Line-Up: Slayer, with Special Guests Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon, Hatebreed and Neckbreakker
5 Villa Park, Birmingham, UK • Black Sabbath • Back to the Beginning
6 Finsbury Park, London
Line Up: Slayer, with Special Guests Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon, Anthrax, and Neckbreakker
11 Quebec Festival d’été de Québec City, Quebec Direct Support: Mastodon
September:
18 Louder Than Life @ Highland Festival Grounds, Louisville, KY
20 Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
Take a digital deep dive into Slayer’s 40+ years via Slaytanic Verses, the band’s online museum – www.slayer.net.
6 Responses
How is this not click bait? SLAYER ADDS MASSIVE U.S. EAST COAST HEADLINING SHOW, TO THE BAND’S 2025 NORTH AMERICAN CONCERTS RUN? One out of two shows??
Don’t blame me, that is the headline from the OFFICIAL press release.
Enough playing grab ass, just tour and record as Kerry King, and do a Slayer gig every 3 months. Satisfies everything and everyone.
O.k so you “retire” at a point where you’re selling 3000 tickets so you can have the fans thirst for a reunion to where you might sell 30,000 tickets a night in a few stops . Business as usual
Imma sit this one out. Younger me is there. Today me………not so much.
Awesome lineup, except for that sh-t band Knocked Loose. I’m going to try and go to this. Doubtful I’ll have the money or the time, but would love to see them one more time.