SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR SLAUGHTERS SUMMER, YOU

Thanks to MetalSucks reader Zack H. for pointing out our lack of coverage of the Summer Slaughter Tour, the lineup for which was announced earlier this week. The tour will tear through the U.S. in June and July, and seems to fill the role of the less commercial, more brutal traveling summer festival niche that Sounds of the Underground has filled in years past (as compared to the bigger, more commercial Ozzfest, and now Rockstar Mayhem Energy Tour). The lineup is:

The Black Dahlia Murder
Kataklysm
Vader
Cryptopsy
The Faceless
Despised Icon
Aborted
Born Of Osiris
Psycroptic
Whitechapel

All in all it’s shaping up to be a pretty fucking awesome summer for metal shows, no? Full list of tour dates after the jump.

-VN

• June 20 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
• June 21 – Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
• June 22 – Louisville, KY @ Headliner’s Music Hall
• June 24 – Albany, NY @ Northern Lights
• June 25 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
• June 26 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
• June 27 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
• June 28 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
• June 29 – Richmond, VA @ The National
• June 30 – Spartanburg, VA @ Ground Zero
• July 01 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
• July 02 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Landing
• July 04 – San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
• July 05 – Houston, TX @ Meridian
• July 06 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
• July 08 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
• July 09 – El Paso, TX @ Club 101
• July 10 – Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
• July 11 – Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
• July 12 – Bakersfield, CA @ The Dome
• July 13 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA
• July 15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
• July 17 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
• July 18 – Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
• July 19 – Spokane, WA @ Big Easy Concert House
• July 20 – Boise, ID @ Big Easy Concert House
• July 21 – Logan, UT @ Club NVO
• July 23 – Denver, CO @ Cervantes Ballroom
• July 24 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
• July 25 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
• July 26 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
• July 27 – St. Louis, MO @ Pop’s
• July 28 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues