Saw Overkill open up for Motorhead and Slayer at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Overkill frankly sucked but when Lemmy’s ugly ass hit the stage all hell broke loose.... and did it ever, that pit was nasty.
Well opening up for those two bands would be a tall order, any day of the freakin century.
I remember seeing a tour called the monsters of metal tour in Seattle in the early 90’s with alice in chains, megadeth, slayer, and anthrax. Slayer made every other band look like crap. Alice Chains had that “what the hell are we doing on this tour” look on their faces. Dave Mustaine was in his downward spiral, and Anthrax absolutely sounded like crap.
Slayer crushed. The first 20 rows from the moment they started resembled shock and awe. Brutal. Bodies and seats flying everywhere.
Everytime I have seen Slayer, they have just destroyed anyone on the tour with them.
The onlytime they were equaled was when I saw them on one of the first ozzfest tours that included fear factory, rob zombie, and black sabbath headlining with Ozxy, Tony, and Gezzer. Wow. That was a show.