Slayer announce new show for 2026 – after insisting they’re done for good
Less than a year after Kerry King swore that Slayer were finished for good, the thrash metal legends have announced a 2026 headline slot at the brand-new Sick New World Texas festival.
Set for 24 October, 2026, at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, the inaugural edition of Sick New World Texas festival will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Slayer’s landmark album Reign In Blood. The stacked lineup also includes System of a Down, Deftones, Evanescence, The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, Knocked Loose, AFI, Ministry, Mastodon, and Power Trip.
Fans can sign up now at SickNewWorldFest.com/Texas for presale access starting 24 October at 10AM CT, with remaining tickets available to the public later that day.
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The announcement comes not long after Slayer’s string of high-profile reunion performances in 2025, including Louder Than Life in Louisville, Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania, and Festival d’été de Québec, plus UK appearances at Cardiff’s Blackweir Fields and London’s Finsbury Park. The band, which officially disbanded in 2019, also played a six-song set at Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning farewell concert in Birmingham this July.
King, who now runs his own band and just last year released his first solo album From Hell I Rise, previously insisted that 2025 would be Slayer’s final run.
In an interview with Australia’s Metal Roos last December, the guitarist said that Slayer were officially done: “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.’”
Fans might now be taking those words with a pinch of salt – or perhaps a full devil-horn salute. Either way, it looks like Slayer’s “final” chapter isn’t quite over yet.
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