Slayer guitarist Kerry King has announced a 2025 North American tour with his eponymous solo band.
The 28-date trek kicks off January 15th in San Francisco and February 22nd in Los Angeles, hitting Toronto, New York City, Dallas, and Las Vegas along the way. Municipal Waste and Alien Weaponry will provide support.
A Live Nation ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday (October 2nd) at 10 a.m. local time using the code TEMPO. General ticket sales start Friday (October 4th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
“Getting back on the road for the first time in five years wasn’t exactly like riding a bike, that’s for sure,” King said via a press release. “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.”
The tour announcement comes after the cancellation of Slayer’s set this past weekend at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The entire Friday slate, including Slayer’s highly anticipated performance — what would have been their second reunion gig after Riot Fest — was washed out due to Hurricane Helene.
Meanwhile, King has also released the music video for the song “Where I Reign” from his solo debut From Hell I Rise. The black-and-white clip was directed by Jim Lauvau, who said he wanted to “capture the fury and the energy of the band in a live setting.”
You can stream the video and see all of Kerry King’s 2025 tour dates below.
Kerry King’s 2025 Tour Dates:
01/15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom *
01/17 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Live Casino *
01/18 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo *
01/19 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater *
01/20 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom *
01/22 – Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre *
01/23 – Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall *
01/25 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre *
01/26 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore *
01/28 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave *
01/30 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theater *
01/31 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues *
02/01 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall *
02/02 – Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia *
02/04 – Boston, MA @ Royale *
02/05 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts *
02/07 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza *
02/08 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage *
02/10 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre *
02/11 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live *
02/13 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues *
02/14 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s *
02/15 – Dallas, TX @ The Studio at the Factory *
02/17 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre *
02/18 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater *
02/19 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Nile Theater *
02/21 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues *
02/22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *
* = w/ Municipal Waste and Alien Weaponry