Since 2018, thrash metal icons Slayer have considered the band “retired.” While they have no plans for any future albums or full-scale tours, that hasn’t stopped them from performing live on occasion. Last year the group performed a showing in Chicago, their first in five years following the aforementioned “end” of the band which also had featured the first performance of “213” since 1998. Now just yesterday, the band once again performed to eager fans, marking their first in 2025.
The show, as reported by Metal Injection, was a 20-song performance at the Blackweir Fields in Cardiff, UK. It is the first of three opening shows in the UK, with it and their July 6th performance at Finsbury Park in London set to be the band’s largest performances ever in the UK, to venues of up to 35,000 and 45,000 fans respectively. Among the list of 20 songs the band performed to excited fans in the UK was the song “Spirit in Black,” which marks this show as the song’s first live performance since 2017. While there are no official recordings of the performance yet available, many audience recordings of songs can be found on YouTube.
Slayer is set to perform five more times across 2025, with two July in the UK and one in Canada and another two September shows in the United States. These scant few shows mark potentially the only chance fans will have to see the group in person for the rest of the year.
The full setlist of their July 3rd show is as follows:
“South Of Heaven”
“Repentless”
“Disciple”
“Die By The Sword”
“Jihad”
“War Ensemble”
“Chemical Warfare”
“Reborn”
“Mandatory Suicide”
“Born Of Fire”
“Dead Skin Mask”
“Spirit In Black”
“Hate Worldwide”
“Seasons In The Abyss”
“Hell Awaits”
“213”
“Postmortem”
“Raining Blood”
“Black Magic”
“Angel Of Death”
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