Slayer will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their classic third album, Reign In Blood, at the inaugural Sick New World Texas, set to take place October 24th, 2026 at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Also scheduled to appear are System Of A Down, Deftness, Evanescence, The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, Knocked Loose, AFI, Ministry,Mastadon, Power Trip and many more. Fans can sign up now at SickNewWorldFest.com/Texas for the official newsletter and SMS list to receive an access code for the presale beginning October 24th at 10 a.m. CT. A same-day public on-sale will follow for any remaining tickets.
Slayer‘s only U.S. East Coast performance of 2025 took place on September 20th at Hershey, Pennsylvania’s 30,000-seat Hersheypark Stadium. Two days earlier, Slayer performed at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The Louder Than Life show marked the reunited thrash metal pioneers’ fourth full concert of 2025, following the band’s appearances the 35,000-capacity Blackweir Fields in Cardiff, U.K., London, U.K.’s 45,000-capacity Finsbury Park, and the 100,000-capacity Festival D’été De Québec in Canada. Slayer also helped celebrate Black Sabbath‘s incredible career by playing a six-song set at the sold-out Back To The Beginning final concert on July 5th at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
The lineup for all of Slayer‘s comeback shows in 2024 and 2025 was the same as the one which last toured in 2019: guitarist Kerry King and drummer Paul Bostaph, along with bassist/vocalist Tom Araya and guitarist Gary Holt.
In previously released news, in honor of the 35th anniversary of Seasons In The Abyss, Slayer‘s free online museum, posted a special track-by-track video, featuring Tom Araya and Kerry King, digging deep into the backstories behind all ten of the album’s songs.
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Would like to see them again. I love Bostaph, but he’s just not as dynamic as Lombardo.