As if this wouldn’t be the greatest show you’d ever seen in your life, fucks sake, it’s SLAYER! It doesn’t matter if you’re not into their music, the crowd would be the show itself. And the venue’s not a stadium either, so you’d have a great time just on that fact.
This date is of course the postponed show that they were supposed to have earlier in the year, here’s the skinny on what the break was all about:
With vocalist/bassist Tom Araya now on the right track to recovery, Slayer announces the rescheduling of its German concert trek. The first German date will kick off on June 7th at the Docks n Hamburg , with the band playing seven German headline shows. All tickets for the original shows are valid, and The Haunted will remain as main support on all dates.
The original-scheduled dates had to be put on hold due to Araya’s ongoing treatment for what was diagnosed as a Cervical Radiculopathy, an occupational hazard for the rocker who is known for aggressively swinging his long mane of hair while performing. Originally, Araya opted for a series of minimally-invasive procedures, and while they resulted in some improvement, they didn’t entirely remedy the severe pain, numbness or muscle spasms that Araya continued to experience. Consequently, Araya made the difficult decision to undergo a surgical procedure, called an Anterior Cervical Discectomy with Fusion, a relatively routine practice with an excellent recovery rate.“I think that his just making the decision to have the surgery has helped improve the way he feels,” said long-time Slayer manager Rick Sales. “While no one wants to go under the knife, his doctors are very confident about this procedure taking care of the problem once and for all.”
Holy fuck, he had a Anterior Cervical Discectomy with Fusion, that’s completely more rock and roll than biting the head off a live bat, Ozzy couldn’t even spell Anterior Cervickul Dicktomyie….fucken forget. it.
Tickets are sold out of course, but you can always go hang out around the front of the show and check people out and drink beers and do the devil sign a lot, just like you would on any other Saturday night anyway, although this time you won’t be hanging around in front of Kaisers. That would be cool. Some stoner might even drop his ticket somewhere and you might get lucky. Stoners do that kind of thing.
