KERRY KING Is Adamant About SLAYER Never Touring Or Making An Album Again

Slayer played the final show of their final tour on November 30, 2019 in Inglewood, CA at The Forum. Then right as Slayer guitarist Kerry King was booting up his solo career in 2024, Slayer announced a handful of festival dates for the United States.

Slayer‘s reunion will continue into 2025 with (so far) an appearance at Louder Than Life, but King doesn’t see their return getting any bigger than that. In an interview with Metal Roos, King made it clear that Slayer will never tour and never put out another record again.

“We’re never gonna tour again. We’re never gonna make a record again. Mark my word: we’re never gonna make a record again, we’re never gonna tour again. Because that was the last thing. We said [back in 2018], ‘This is our final tour.’ It took five years for us to come and say, ‘Hey, here’s a couple of shows, five-year anniversary.'”

Which one on hand, sure. Slayer doesn’t seem to have any grand designs about getting back full time. But on the other hand, haven’t we heard the “we’re not gonna do X and Y” from loads of classic bands that eventually did both X and Y?

On the few Slayer shows that happened in 2024, King added: “I think it’s really cool. A lot of fans are into it. There’s gonna be haters who say, ‘Oh, they retired.’ Yeah. Whatever. This is all about celebration. Say a kid was 10 years old when we retired. Now he’s 15, 16. [It’s his] first opportunity to see us. I think that’s important.”

Kerry King and his solo band have a whole buncha 2025 tour dates lined up, all of which you can find below. Get your tickets here.

w/ Municipal Waste & Alien Weaponry

1/15 The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
1/17 Spokane Live Casino, Spokane, WA
1/18 Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
1/19 Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
1/20 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
1/22 The Palace Theatre, Calgary, AB
1/23 Midway Music Hall, Edmonton, AB
1/25 Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
1/26 The Fillmore, Minneapolis, MN
1/28 The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
1/30 The Majestic Theater, Detroit, MI
1/31 House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
2/1 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
2/2 L’Olympia, Montreal, QC
2/4 Royale, Boston, MA
2/5 Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2/7 Irving Plaza, New York, NY
2/8 Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore, MD
2/10 Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA
2/11 Jannus Live, St. Petersburg, FL
2/13 House of Blues, Houston, TX
2/14 Emo’s, Austin, TX
2/15 The Studio at the Factory, Dallas, TX
2/17 Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
2/18 Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, NM
2/19 The Nile Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2/21 House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
2/22 The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

Kerry King only

7/29 Zoom Saal Frankfurt, DE
7/30 Simm City Wien, AU
8/1 Rockstadt Extreme Transylvania, RO
8/4 Komplex 457 Zürich, CH
8/6-9 Brutal Assault Festival Jaromer, CZ
8/7 FZW Dortmund, DE
8/8-10 Alcatraz Festival Kortrijk, BE
8/12 Academy 2 Manchester, UK
8/13 SWX Bristol, UK
8/14-17 Motocultor Festival Carhaix, FR
8/17 Dynamo Festival Eindhoven, NL
8/19 Tauron Arena Krakow, PL (supporting Gojira)