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Slayer cancel Sydney Soundwaveset

Sun 27th Feb, 2011 in Local News

Slayer singer Tom Araya has been hospitalized in Sydney, forcing the band to cancel their set at Soundwave.

No details about Araya’s injury or illness have been released, but the decision to cancel was made just moments before the band was due to hit the stage at the Sydney Showgrounds.

Just before 6pm, the festival’s promoter AJ Maddah tweeted “Tom Araya has been taken to hospital. Slayer set looking unlikely today :(“ but within five minutes “unlikely” had been upgraded to a confirmation of the band’s cancellation with Maddah confirming that Araya will be kept in hospital overnight, forcing the cancelation of the band’s set.

Araya’s unexplained illness isn’t the only medical issue for Slayer at the moment – the metal veterans are touring with Gary Holt from the Californian heavy metal band Exodus standing in for regular Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman who is recovering from surgery on his right arm.

According to Maddah, Araya “will be OK” for Slayer’s next scheduled performance is at Soundwave in Melbourne on Friday 4th March.

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shaun4891

shaun4891 said on the 27th Feb, 2011

get well tom!!

Rustafarian

Rustafarian said on the 27th Feb, 2011

hah

Piko

Piko said on the 27th Feb, 2011

Whoa! sux to be at soundwave! well.. if you wanted to see Slayer that is

batdan

batdan said on the 27th Feb, 2011

I hope Tom is fine for Adelaide, last tour was cancelled due to him losing his voice.

lukey26

lukey26 said on the 27th Feb, 2011

Slayer seem cursed.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 27th Feb, 2011



Probably the inspiration for the God Hates Us All record.

Shieldsy23

Shieldsy23 said on the 27th Feb, 2011

Could of told us beforehand...rather than letting everyone wait for half an hour after the stage was packed out and starting a riot.

rodismdotcom

rodismdotcom said on the 27th Feb, 2011

Shit they have a lot of bad luck in Australia.

oldgregg

oldgregg said on the 27th Feb, 2011

was he raining blood from his vagina?

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

Sooooooooooooooo many angry hessians tonight.

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

I'm not sure who was more angry: the Slayer fans or the RATM fans who had to listen to 30 Seconds to Mars before ODAAL

random_hero

random_hero said on the 28th Feb, 2011

He looked fine watching ill nino

daveyac8881

daveyac8881 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

never thought the decision to see 30 seconds to mars over slayer would actually turn out to be a winner...

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

30STM was interesting as a purely pop performance. Loved the little things, like not having foldbacks but still having stands so that he act like he's standing on foldbacks.

daveyac8881

daveyac8881 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

He definitely had more personality than anyone else today. I found the music pretty boring for the most part. I don't know what on earth he was wearing. It looked like he killed a peacock and dyed it black and attempted slung it over his singlet. I don't like those singlets. They are like emo hipster singlets. I liked the drummer. He was cool, he played more interestingly than I would expect from a band like that. The band was essentially a backing band though, it made no difference who was actually in the band and who were the hired live-only members.

The Kill was awesome.

I thoroughly dislike the Kings and Queens song. That song is terrible.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 28th Feb, 2011

Did the entire crowd for One Day As A Lion consist of drunk bogans yelling at them to play "Killing In The Name Of"?

daveyac8881

daveyac8881 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

Surprisingly not, I saw a lot of people in ODAAL T-Shirts. Which was weird. There seemed to be about 50 people getting really into them for the most part. Everyone else seemed bored

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

Yes, from what I saw.

That said, experimental anti-establishment rap is not the thing you want to open with to bogans whom are either pissed off after seeing Jared leto or pissed off after not seeing Slayer.

berlinchair101

berlinchair101 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

I only heard one guy yell "Play Rage you keeents!"

Zach De La Rocha looked like he was having a great time.

God hates Slayer.

Demosthenes

Demosthenes said on the 28th Feb, 2011



I love Darkness of Christ.

cortez

cortez said on the 28th Feb, 2011

hey, i guess tom is now well! seen at lunch time today in myer food hall pitt street mall sydney chowing down pretty hearty sitting with another dude. bummer!

therat

therat said on the 28th Feb, 2011

Myer food hall?

That's not metal.

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

Myer food hall?

That's not metal.

He was probably prentending that it was blood on his meat pie instead of tomato sauce.

random_hero

random_hero said on the 28th Feb, 2011

anyone who falls for that stupid medical excuse believes in santa claus

daveyac8881

daveyac8881 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

A friend of mine who was working backstage sent me a text saying "she was busying dealing with all the mess after the Slayer guy went to hospital". Or something along those lines.

So I'd believe it.

Also AJ doesn't tend to bullshit around, even when he probably should sometimes

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 28th Feb, 2011


Also AJ doesn't tend to bullshit around, even when he probably should sometimes

Is it just me, or is AJ slowly becoming the touring company world's Gerry Harvey?

mooney88

mooney88 said on the 28th Feb, 2011

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a271/somethingwithnumbers/Screenshot2011-02-28at95310PM.png

Shieldsy23

Shieldsy23 said on the 1st Mar, 2011

^^

Can't see that ending well.
But still, would be rather interesting.

grattan

grattan said on the 4th Mar, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NntKCpNzJg&feature=player_embedded

Demosthenes

Demosthenes said on the 4th Mar, 2011

That was all a bit hand-baggsies. Hilarious when the shirt wouldn't catch alight: "WHY WON'T IT BURN?!"

I'm sure the Tele or TT could turn it into a world-is-ending piece about the rise of satanic devil-worshippers eating the heads of babies and the moral disintegration of youth, though.