Thrash metal legends SLAYER kicked off their North American tour last night (Friday, October 25) at the The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. SLAYER is performing many of the band's most classic and fan-favorite songs, all of which were originally written and released between the group's inception and the 1990 gold disc "Seasons In The Abyss". SLAYER's "old-school night" set includes tracks from 1983's "Show No Mercy", 1985's "Hell Awaits", the genre-defining and gold-certified "Reign In Blood" (1986), 1988's "South of Heaven", also certified gold, and "Seasons". The band's setlist for the Las Vegas show was as follows: 01. World Painted Blood 02. Necrophiliac 03. At Dawn They Sleep 04. Mandatory Suicide 05. Captor Of Sin 06. War Ensemble 07. Disciple 08. Threshold 09. Postmortem 10. Altar Of Sacrifice 11. Jesus Saves 12. Seasons In The Abyss 13. Hallowed Point 14. Dead Skin Mask 15. Raining Blood 16. Black Magic 17. Hate Worldwide Encore: 18. South Of Heaven 19. Angel Of Death "We [were] having such a great time rehearsing this 'old-school' set, we've decided to play it on every one of our upcoming tour dates," announced SLAYER's Kerry King. "We're going to give the fans what amounts to 'decades of aggression,'" added bassist/vocalist Tom Araya. " It's going to be a great night of music and moshing for everyone." Confirmed dates for SLAYER's 2013 fall North American tour are accessible here. SLAYER's five-week North American headline tour the band's first in two years features support on all dates from GOJIRA and 4ARM. SLAYER's current touring lineup consists of King, Araya, drummer Paul Bostaph, and guitarist Gary Holt EXODUS), who continues to fill in for the late founding member Jeff Hanneman. Bostaph was SLAYER's drummer from 1992 until 2001 and recorded four albums with the band the gold-certified "Divine Intervention" (1994), the 1996 punk covers album "Undisputed Attitude", "Diabolus In Musica" (1998), "God Hates Us All" (2001) that received a Grammy nomination for "Best Metal Performance", as well as the DVD "War At The Warfield" (2001), also certified gold. In addition to SLAYER, Bostaph has been a member of FORBIDDEN, EXODUS, SYSTEMATIC and TESTAMENT. Original SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo sat out the band's Australian tour in February/March due to a contract dispute with the other members of the group. Filling in for him was Jon Dette (TESTAMENT, ANTHRAX).
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