Slayer guitarist Kerry King and his solo band - drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer), bassist Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah), guitarist Phil Demmel (Machine Head), and vocalist Mark Osegueda (Death Angel) - are currently on tour in Australia, and on Tuesday (December 3) in Sydney, and tonight (December 4) in Melbourne, the band paid tribute to original Iron Maiden singer, Paul Di'Anno, by performing the Maiden classic, "Killers".
Di'Anno passed away on October 21, and his manager, Stjepan Juras, revealed that Paul's cause of death, as per his family, was "a tear in the sac around the heart." Di'Anno was laid to rest in London, England on November 21.
Fan-filmed video of King and band performing "Killers" can be viewed below:
Kerry King's Australian tour continues on Friday, December 6 at the Good Things Festival in Melbourne.
King and his band will hit the road for the twenty-eight date "North American Headline Tour 2025". With Municipal Waste as Special Guest and Alien Weaponry supporting, the tour is set to launch in San Francisco on January 15, and wrap at House of Blues in Las Vegas on February 22. Tickets can be purchased here. The complete itinerary is below.
“Getting back on the road for the first time in five years wasn’t exactly like riding a bike, that’s for sure,” King acknowledged. “I’ve never had that much time off, but the first tours with my new band – in the UK and Europe, and then in America with Lamb of God and Mastodon - were all total blasts. We’ll be headlining on this next tour, so we’re playing a longer set than we did with Lamb of God and Mastodon. We've got a little bit of a learning curve, so will start rehearsing the first week of November. And we might put an extra Slayer song into the set and learn a cover song or two.”
Dates for Kerry King's “North American Headline Tour 2025" are listed below:
January
15 - The Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA
17 - Spokane Live Casino - Spokane, WA
18 - Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA
19 - Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
20 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC (Canada)
22 - The Palace Theatre - Calgary, AB (Canada)
23 - Midway Music Hall - Edmonton, AB (Canada)
25 - Burton Cummings Theatre - Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
26 - The Fillmore - Minneapolis, MN
28 - The Rave - Milwaukee, WI
30 - The Majestic Theater - Detroit, MI
31 - House of Blues - Cleveland, OH
February
1 - Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON (Canada)
2 - L'Olympia - Montreal, QC (Canada)
4 - Royale - Boston, MA
5 - Theatre of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
7 - Irving Plaza - New York, NY
8 - Baltimore Soundstage - Baltimore, MD
10 - Buckhead Theatre - Atlanta, GA
11 - Jannus Live - St. Petersburg, FL
13 - House of Blues - Houston, TX
14 - Emo's - Austin, TX
15 - The Studio at the Factory - Dallas, TX
17 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
18 - Sunshine Theater - Albuquerque, NM
19 - The Nile Theater - Phoenix, AZ
21 - House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
22 - The Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
(Top photo - Pics From The Pit)
