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Thirty-eight years after Slayer fans trashed a New York venue by ripping up seat cushions during a concert on the band’s South Of Heaven tour, frontman Tom Araya has threatened to walk off stage if they repeat the chaos at a Los Angeles concert.
The thrash giants played the 17,500-capacity Kia Forum on Saturday, November 14, the second of two shows celebrating 1986’s 40th anniversary. Reigns in blood album. They were eight songs into the first of the night’s two sets when Araya spotted fans causing damage in parts of the venue.
The singer paused the show and asked for the house lights to be turned on. He told the crowd (as transcribed by theprp.com): “I don’t know how many times I had this conversation when we first started playing huge fucking venues. I kept telling everyone, ‘Dude, you gotta keep your fucking shit together. You can’t start destroying shit because they’ll shut it down.’
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When the crowd started booing, he berated them for the damage they were causing, saying that the authorities were going to “shut down the place” and informing the audience that they were suspending filming until things calmed down.
“They don’t want anyone to get hurt,” Araya said (according to theprp.com). “There’s a lot of people who want to come see the show. They don’t understand some of this stuff, and you get so crazy that you start hurting each other. You know, guys, I know it’s hard to contain each other. Shit and you act together, okay?
“There’s no one to blame but you, and you know who I’m talking about. Not those people in front, not them, not them. It’s you motherfuckers behind those people, yeah. You know, we’re in a time where people have… you know there are no consequences for what you do.
“We need consequences. If you keep this up, we’ll go home. And I hope you don’t do that the next time we come. You know, you think you can get away with shit and not get in trouble for it? We end up getting in trouble for it. We have to pay for this shit. I’m not kidding, man. I’m not kidding. Have you ever heard me talk to you like that?”
“So you need to pull yourself together and behave like fucking human beings, unless you’re in this fucking area right here, up front. Yeah, the fire department is here, and they’re here for your safety, your fucking safety. You hear what I’m saying? Alright, let’s see how you act. We might come back.”
Filming was then interrupted for five minutes. Slayer eventually returned to the show after the offending fans calmed down.
The group, reunited in 2024 after breaking up five years earlier, is performing a short series of South American concerts in December to mark its 40th anniversary. Reigns in blood.
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