The Summer Slaughter Tour
Date City Country Venue
August 14 , 2008 Quebec City Canada Imperial
August 15 , 2008 Montreal Canada Club Soda
August 16 , 2008 Toronto Canada Opera House
August 18 , 2008 Thunder Bay Canada Kilroys
August 19 , 2008 Winnipeg Canada Garrick Center
August 20 , 2008 Regina Canada Riddell Center
August 21 , 2008 Calgary Canada Warehouse
August 22 , 2008 Edmonton Canada Starlite
August 23 , 2008 Prince George Canada Roll-a-Dome
August 25 , 2008 Vancouver Canada Commodore Ballroom ( no Common Grave , Divinity )
2008 ( Canada )
Headliner : Necrophagist Support bands : Brutal Truth ( Toronto only ) Dying Fetus Beneath The Massacre Into Eternity Neuraxis Whitechapel Veil of Maya Divinity Common Grave Tour dates [ 3 ]
The Summer Slaughter Tour is an annual heavy metal music tour held every year since 2007. It originated in North America in 2007 and has toured in Canada in 2008, Europe in 2008, and Australia and New Zealand in 2009. Billed as The Most Extreme Tour of the Year, Summer Slaughter has earned a reputation as being one of the few summer tours to cater exclusively to fans of extreme forms of metal music. Starting in 2012, Summer Slaughter began to add more progressive metal bands to their lineups, seeing Between the Buried and Me co-headline with Cannibal Corpse. Periphery also played Summer Slaughter 2012, and came back during Summer Slaughter 2013, along with progressive metal bands Animals as Leaders and The Ocean. The focus on progressive metal that year was controversial and many people were into heavy metal music, and death metal focused lineups returned in 2014, seeing Morbid Angel headline.