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BLOODY RAIN WILL FALL ON SELECT SLAYER TOUR DATES
Slayer's "Wall of Blood" To Create Gory Downpour
"Still Reigning" DVD Has a Confirmed

November 2 Release Date

For years, artists have looked to create exciting and innovative stage designs for their fans - thrash/punk/metal gods SLAYER will push that concept right over the edge this fall with an effect dubbed the "Wall of Blood." Slayer's Wall of Blood will make its North American debut when the band headlines the Jagermeister Music Tour, set to kick off October 29 in Springfield, MO (full itinerary below).

At select shows (determined by each venue's technical specs) during Slayer's classic song "Raining Blood," the band, their instruments, and the stage will be drenched by a downpour of "blood." The "Wall of Blood" will rain more than 150 litres of theatrical blood over an area measuring from 32-feet to 40-feet wide (determined by the size of the venue’s stage), 25-feet high, and six-feet deep. The device is a dedicated truss and sprinkler system that utilizes a unique pump technology, and was designed exclusively for Slayer by UK-based Hangman Productions.

Slayer used the "raining blood" effect last July in Augusta, ME while filming their brand-new DVD, "Still Reigning." The Dean Karr-directed DVD opens with the the band's 1986, 28-minute benchmark album "Reign In Blood" performed live in its entirety by Slayer's original line-up - Tom Araya (vocals, bass), guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, and drummer Dave Lombardo, who permanently rejoined the band in 2003. "Still Reigning" also offers bonus material including live performances of Slayer classics such as "War Ensemble," "Hallowed Point," "Necrophobic," "Mandatory Suicide," "Spill The Blood," "Hell Awaits," and "South of Heaven," as well as exclusive interviews and backstage footage. "Still Reigning" has a running time of more than 80-minutes and a confirmed November 2, 2004 release date.

SLAYER was named the "Best Live Band Ever" in Revolver magazine, and "Best Band" in that magazine's 2004 Readers' Poll. In addition, Slayer's video, "Bloodline," was just named "#1 Best Metal Video of the New Millennium (So Far)" by viewers of MTV2's "Headbangers Ball" and readers of Revolver.

Slayer’s “Wall of Blood” will be in effect at as many venues on the Fall Jagermeister Music Tour as possible; the confirmed “bloodbath” cities/venues will be announced shortly, and you can always log onto to Slayer’s website – slayer.net – for updates.

OCTOBER
29 Shrine Mosque, Springfield, MO
30 Val Air Ballroom, Des Moines, IA
31 The Pageant, St. Louis, MO


NOVEMBER
2 Quest Club, Minneapolis, MN
3 Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
5 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
6 Harpo’s Detroit, MI
7 Egyptian Room @ Murat Centre, Indianapolis, IN
9 Ice Garden, Belle Vernon, PA
10 The Staircase, Pittston, PA
11 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY
12 Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ
13 The Palladium, Worcester, MA
15 Lupo’s @ The Strand, Providence, RI
16 State Theatre, Portland, ME
18 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
19 Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
20 Dome Theatre, Niagara Falls, NY
21 Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH
23 Nation, Washington, D.C.
24 Norva Theatre, Norfolk, VA
25 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
26 Masquerade, Tampa, FL
27 Revolution, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
28 Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
30 House of Blues, New Orleans, LA

DECEMBER
2 Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
3 Sunset Station, San Antonio, TX
4 Concrete Street Amphitheatre, Corpus Christi, TX
5 Gypsy Ballroom, Dallas, TX
7 Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
8 Shrine Auditorium, Billings, MT
10 The Premier, Seattle, WA
11 The Big Easy, Spokane, WA
12 Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR
14 The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
15 House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
16 Soma, San Diego, CA
17 Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA

succubus said:


yes ma'am!

lol

they are sending it to me to review

floppy boner

is that good or bad?

wow slayA

still milking the only good album they ever made yet NU-slayA bits the big one so unless they put some oldschool classic slayA live shows on it i'll pass

wow. I should've gone to that show. But I've seen Slayer twice this year. Ozzfest was terrible...

well nov 13 or 15th
you still have a chance...

succubus said:

I believe Liz and I will be at the 13th show...you going Carina?

they sent me a copy to review

Lincoln said:

yup i will be there

I am no longer going unfortunately. I was looking forward to it.

succubus said:

I'm sure Liz will still be going though...

i'll be there with my girlfriend

tonight!

we just got home and we both shot the whole show
woot!

yeah, I'm back too..
working on pictures.

pictures are uploading now.

I can not thank sylvia from massconcerts enough.

i <3 sylvia and she <3's me
you missed her blowing me a kiss through the window when i ran in to get our passes
heh
as for the freakshow
he has a site:
http://bmeworld.com/amago/bodmod/index.html
check out his modifications

his site is www.thewizardman.com

i heard that wall of blood thing didnt happen...........just curious

and what the fuck is jager freaks

click on it.
the wall of blood did happen

writing my review now.

hahaha my friend must have been blind......... i just talked to him and he said it didnt happen


as far as the "jager freaks" go, i just looked at the pictures and thats just stupid? who cares?

I SAW THE NEW SLAYER DVD IT SUCKED...IT'S NOT WORTH BUYING

q: I ran in during their set. they didn't sound too bad, but I was a little hurried snapping pictures before their set was over. I guess they are from springfield... though I've never heard of them as far as I know. the singer's contacts were messing with me... I kept thinking that my flash was messing up, but it was the contacts.

jager freaks: the lizard man came out and put a pair of sissors through his nose... then put a drill in his nose. finally, he throat flossed with a condom, twice!

mastodon: their set was awesome. mostly cause the new stuff (which I'm still not really sure of on the cd) sounds awesome live. it takes a bit of the "hatfield" edge out of the vocals. they definitely looked like they were having fun. I think that they were odd man out with the other two bands, but the crowd reacted really really well to them.

jager freaks: the lizard dooder lifted up a jager fridge with carribeaners clipped to his ears.. then some other guy lifted up jager bottles with his eye sockets.

kill switch engage: I was running around and barry (the KSE tour manager) gave me a pass to shoot them, yeah! so I get down there and KSE starts off. it was basically the same set they always do. I still have when darkness falls stuck in my head. At the end of the set, adam jumed into the crowd while playing once.. which didn't work too well, so he jumped a second time. I guess they are looking for pictures for their upcoming DVD. you might just be seeing some of the ones from carina(http://www.defyunlearn.com/photos.php?date=2004-11-13 ) on that platter.

jager freaks: I think the lizard man was getting himself out of a straight jacket, but I was busy.

slayer: for those of you who I didn't talk to, I was denied a photopass to slayer. I was miffed, but there was nothing I could do about it. carina and I went to the balcony and stood where I always stand to watch slayer. Carina and I started to click a few shots to show bruce bettis some shots from our cameras with no flash. then Joy came over to tell Carina and I that Sylvia (http://www.returntothepit.com/pics/2004/nov132004/lollipop_2033.JPG ) was looking for me. Sylvia had gotten a photo-pass for me for slayer! So I was able to go into the photo pit with everyone for the last 3 songs of slayer. The photo pit was full of people and there was basically always someone in front of you... I appologize to all the people I accidentally elbowed. The lighting wasn't that great.. and there was no flash allowed.
for the last song, they started to play raining blood. I'm not sure if the blood wall was messed up or not. I noticed that tommy stood back a few times like the rain "should" start, but it didnt until the last minute of the set. and then like the songs name, the best way to descrip what was going on was a red rain of blood. I must admit, I was expecting a torrent wall of red. still looked cool, but I think that most people couldn't see it AND it wasn't as big as the hype.

link to my photos
http://www.defyunlearn.com/photos.php?date=2004-11-13

here's how my night at the slayer show, and after, went...

first off, the merch was way too fucking expensive. that was a disappointment since there was some cool shit and i would have gone broke buying anything.

q: terrible. i guess you could say they played their style well, but it was awful, the antics were gay as shit and they did not belong on this show.

mastodon: after missing them 4 times, i finally got to see them, and it was awesome. their sound was great tonight.

kse: only seen em a million times, but i always enjoy seeing them again.

slayer...ohhhh the almighty slayer...
I HAD TO FUCKING LEAVE JUST AS THEY STARTED!!!!!!!!! AAAAAARRRRGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Most disappointing moment of the year for me. My girlfriend called me just as slayer started saying her back was in immense pain (she has degenerate disc disease, a herniated disc and disc protrusion in her lower back), so i hauled ass to her house and to the nearest hospital, and sat there for 4 fucking hours. then we had to get her medication at walgreens, but we couldn't find her i.d. or debit card, so we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off for another hour. i just got home, and i hate life. fuck all of you, baaaaaaah

q- as mark said i guess they played their style well. their style sucks. the singer broke the no fat chicks in belly shirts rule. about 30 people out of over 1000 aplauded. everyone else flipped em off booed and didnt even bob their heads. no energy on stage. didnt belong on the show.

mastodon - just as awesome as always. my 4th time seeing them. they always play well and sound great but they did look lke they had alot of fun last nite.

kse - sounded like kse. less humor than usual. adam ran around stage like a queer running away from a bee. lots of mall rats there for killswitch.

slayer - fucking slayer. what else can i say. i was about 40 feet from the stage and i could not see the wall of blood. i could tell they where slighty wet/red at the end but that was it.

30 t shirts are ass. should have been lots of free jager.

What the fuck, my name is Joy now? Asshole!!!

free jager was there but you got it in the VIP room
woot!

JayTUS said:

Joy came to get us in the balcony to tell us about the photo pass, not you oh silly one!

I called Rev and came up looking for him to tell him Sylvia was looking for him!! I get no props. I hate you both! Always trying to keep the white man down...

ok let me edit this for him..

after joy came to tell us, we went downstairs and were in the main entrance where i asked a security guard who then looked in the office and while he was doing that, the rev;s phone rang and it was JayTUS calling, telling him about the pass and then jayTUS showed up there too and we all walked down together

fuck Q.

I would now like to be refered to as JayTUS/HardcoreInk and when the other magazines get added, I'll let you know. Just for future reference. Thank you.

How about we call you Grundle Goblin?

No. I'm too awesome for that.

Oh, well just so you know, one time someone posted under your screen name that you liked Creed. If you are awesome then it was obviously not you.

Because I like a band you don't? No, that adds to my level of awesomeness. Thanks for pointing that out.

No problem. See you at the mall, rocker!

They sell your favorite band's CD's at the mall too!!!1!!

Really? I'll go get the Siege re-issue there then.

Whatever's convienent.

Jay, you and I should cruise the strip looking for hookers to murder.

Can we fist them first?

I was supposed to get a photopass and a ticket, someone messed up and I only got a photopass. lucky for me I had ordered a ticket online a couple days ago so I still got to get in. Just so happens i'm $38 poorer.

I missed Q, Mastodon we're perfect, KSE were a lot of fun, and slayer was..well...slayer. I was bumming because a security guard saw me sneaking a couple picture before we were allowed to shoot and he took my battery for all of slayers set. but thanks a TON to carina for lending me what had to have been a 4 million doller camera. I don't think any blood got on it ;)

I kind of liked how subtle the "wall of blood" was, but it was over hyped. If they hadn't said anything about it people would have been more psyched to see it happen.

anyway, working on my photos now. I'm prolly going to upload them to the lollipop site later today..

was lil john there?

Jonah said:

heh

no problemo!

Josh_hates_you said:

that is the funniest thing I think I've read yet. how long have you been saving that one?

Josh_hates_you said:

$30 for an RTTP hoodie... and there was plenty of free jager if you were in the VIP bar.

Fuck yes, Mastadon was realll good, I got in the pit for a little while there, they put on a great show. Killswitch was also amazing, I touched the guitarist's head, and shit, I was right near the front. I can't get a clear view of me in any of the pics though. Slayer was completely amazing, It was only my second time seeing them, I was 10 feet away from them, It was the best night ever. The blood rain just topped off everything. They played a killer set, and I got one of the guitar picks Kerry King threw out!! Totally Awesome..

When I was leaving the show on main street, this guy was with his window down was like "How was Slayer?", and i was like "fuck yeahhh!", then he said "They fucking suck!", so I said "FUCKK YOUU!!" and flipped him off. It was a great night, and Im glad we could all make it happen. Nice pics by the way.

you should look at my pics because i also got crowd shots..you may be in those.

the_reverend said:

i already said that!
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post by succubus at Nov 14,2004 10:28am

free jager was there but you got it in the VIP room
woot!>>

but i guess yer still buzzed from all the free booze we got in the VIP bar
hahaha

i been too way better slayer shows... too be honest i wasnt impressed... i was too busy staring at the girl that i brought...

why did you guys get vip?!

LAME!

not vip passes, only photo passes, but we had access to the VIP bar..i was kidding about getting drunk though

It's cool to see some of the DEATH ORGY clan on the new SLAYER video... How does that make some of you feel?

shut up woman beater

Thirty fucking dollars for a T-Shirt that costs about $6.00 to make?!?!?!?!!

most shirts cost less then 3 bucks to make in that kind of bulk

it was a great night...

i was excited all day... ive seen slayer before and all but its slayer...

so i made slayer cupcakes... about 45 of them for the staff... they were gone in like a half hour... apparently they were "the best cupcakes ever"

yes the raining blood was more like a drizzle and that sucked... i learned my camera sucks without a flash and i learned that sorting thru 290 pics to narrow down to 6 sucks.

i have a slight concussion from someone landing on my head during Raining Blood and that sucks... a constant headache for 2 days sucks.

but it was fucking slayer so all will be ok!

did anyone notice during chemical warfare when tommy said "for me to poop on!" during a chorus?

There was no "blood" at the Providence show, it wasn't needed, the show ruled!

FUCKIN' SLAAAAAAYERRRRR!!!

Wow... that show fucking ruled.... I thought Q was going to ruin my night though. My first Slayer show and I was amazed... i could see the raining blood from the balcony.

Q SUCKED ASS!!!! Maston was AWESOME!! FUCKING KSE KICKED ASS!! Slayer was pretty good i guess..

Um, it's MASTODON.

And KSE sucks.