Slayer/Amon Amarth/Anthrax/Mastodon/Hatebreed - London/Cardiff July

[mickO)))]

Hopefully they'll be back and have a 3Arena date.Think those 2 dates and the Sabbath thing are their only European dates in 2025.

Personally I would prefer the Academy again which I know won't happen but even the Olympia would be great. The bigger shows at the 3Arena are shite when your stuck down the back. I wasn't here for the last show but last time I saw them was 2017 in a venue that holds just under 4k which was great.

Hatebreed are also long overdue an Irish show as I think 2013 was the last time they played here which is crazy given that the last few times they played the shows always sold out well in advance.

[Pain Medicine]

Mastodon don't seem that interested in doing club shows in Europe anymore. Think that January 2019 tour is actually the last time they did a European headline tour??

Can't blame them either, too easy to just take big money for 1 show at Bloodstock, Hellfest, Graspop instead of slugging it for weeks on end playing the academies and limelights.

[Squigs]

I saw clips of Bill talking about the cost of everything post-covid really decimating their ability to tour, taking stage setup, pyro etc. Which is grand. But leave that in Holyhead if you have to, lads, just play a show.

[HeartWorm]

Olympia would be ideal.i'm not a fan of the 3arena,it feels like being at a big cinema or something.

[Halo]

Those 2019 shows had Kvelertak and Mutoid Man in support, which was an amazing lineup, love to see that again.

[ldj]

That was a great gig, I've seen Bill talk about the finances behind touring and I don't get it, being a bigger band + on a major label they're surely raking in far more money than their peers in High on Fire or Baroness for example, and those bands don't seem to have any problem touring.

Seen clips from their Leviathan anniversary tour and they had a keyboard player which doesn't even feature on the album, maybe knocking stuff like that + the big screens/animations would be a good place to start.

That gig with Scott Kelly was class, as much as I love them, I still maintain had they had a consistent vocalist who could do it live they would have been the biggest metal band of the 21st century, they had the underground cred, the acclaim of the critics, just couldn't deliver live to grab that festival headliner gravitas.

[Sworntothecans]

Wonder who mastodon will have playing guitar as Hinds is outta the band

https://www.instagram.com/p/DG6ExClPdkx/?igsh=YXMxdnpyemNpemt3

[Trev]

Wonder who mastodon will have playing guitar as Hinds is outta the band

https://www.instagram.com/p/DG6ExClPdkx/?igsh=YXMxdnpyemNpemt3

Well that was unexpected