Summer Slaughter 2024 has drawn some serious backlash for its comeback lineup featuring co-headliners Veil Of Maya and Brand Of Sacrifice, to the point where organizers changed the tagline of the tour.
Now in an interview with The Punk Rock MBA, festival owner and Sumerian Records head Ash Avildsen said the lineup for the first Summer Slaughter tour since 2019 was supposed to be way different.
“Truth be told, we looked at a more legacy, larger than life, big lineup when we were first talked about bringing the tour back,” said Avildsen as transcribed by The PRP. “I mean we were looking at Suicidal Tendencies, Dying Fetus, Biohazard triple co-headline.”
Avildsen said the lineup ultimately fell through, and that organizers wanted to book a tour that better reflected the current crop of metal bands rather than established, older acts.
“It’s tough to take a tour like that in 20-30 cities in a row for a myriad of reasons. All 3 are iconic, timeless bands in their own right. And it got to the point, where we’re trying to see if it was even possible — some bands couldn’t do all the dates. Everyone’s got plans in Europe in the summer. And I just kinda had a heart to heart with everyone involved in the tour. And we’re like ‘dude, we created this tour to help move forward a new era of bands’.
“Even if we still had Cannibal Corpse and certain older acts headline the tour. I was like, let’s focus on something that is going to do that, and bands that we think have earned the right to be on the top of it.”
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