EPISODE · Sep 29, 2025 · 57 MIN
The Hershey Show Was Fire… Episode 87: A Long Report From the Slayer Mini-Fest
from Talkin' Slayer: A Metal Podcast and Half-@ssed Audiobook · host D.X. Ferris
Episode #87 of 55.Today's topic is a show report from Slayer's mini-festival in Hershey, PA 20 September 2025. It was their final show of the year, lucky #6.The full day of kick-@ss featured sets by Exodus, the Cavalera Conspiracy, Power Trip, Suicidal Tendencies, Knocked Loose, and F.N. Slayer. And I tell ya all about it. Get ready for the sights, the sounds, the scene, the smells, and all the hot sensations.This is a long episode, nearly 60 minutes. If you just want to hear the Slayer part, jump to the 29-minute mark.This week, Ferris is not reading from his newly, extensively overhauled and expanded Slayer book, "Slayer 66 2/3: A Metal Band Biography... or, How F*kin' Slayer Kicked F*kin' @ss," which is available in three different lengths / sizes, plus a mostly-color ebook. In most of the other episodes, that's what he does. Mostly.This is the final episode of Talkin’ Slayer, Season 2. We’ll return with season Four in early 2026. And when we do, we might not be on Spotify, because of Spotify’s various and sundry f*kery and assorted acts of f@keration. So keep your antenna up.You can keep updated for free at Patreon: Patreon.com/SlayerBookUntil season 4, Patreon supporters can hear season 3, weekly, for less than $1 an episode. Until now, free listeners got every other episode. For season 3, free listeners get none.DEEZ NOTES... things referenced in the showPHOTOS: Like 80 pictures I took at the show, randomly shuffledVIDEO: Slayer's full setVIDEO: Exodus' set... someVIDEO: Cavalera Conspiracy's full setVIDEO: Power Trip's full setVIDEO: Suicidal's full setVIDEO: Knocked Loose's full setAUDIO: Exodus' Let There Be Blood, a re-recording of Bonded, featuring Rob Dukes on vocalsAUDIO: Let There Be Blood album on SpotifyAUDIO: Knocked Koose’s “Mistakes Like Fractures”VIDEO: Slayer cover Exodus' "Strike of the Beast" in 2013The new & improved & updated & embiggened book Ferris reads from every week, "Slayer 66 2 /3: A Metal Band Biography..., or, How Fkin' Slayer Kicked F*kin' @ss" — all four versions.Free listeners miss every other episode.Patreon supporters get an episode every week, plus more bonus Slaytanic content. Packages start at less than $1 an episode. Premiums include stickers, a shout-out on the show, and a free version of the audbiobook when it's finished.Learn more at Patreon.com/SlayerBook .If you want to drop some ducats in the virtual tip jar... or you'd rather make a one-time payment for a VIP all-access pass, you can do it at ko-fi.com/slayerbook . You can order autographed books here, or pre-order the audiobook.GRATITUDE.
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Episode #87 of 55.Today's topic is a show report from Slayer's mini-festival in Hershey, PA 20 September 2025. It was their final show of the year, lucky #6.The full day of kick-@ss featured sets by Exodus, the Cavalera Conspiracy, Power Trip, Suicidal Tendencies, Knocked Loose, and F.N. Slayer. And I tell ya all about it. Get ready for the sights, the sounds, the scene, the smells, and all the hot sensations.This is a long episode, nearly 60 minutes. If you just want to hear the Slayer part, jump to the 29-minute mark.This week, Ferris is not reading from his newly, extensively overhauled and expanded Slayer book, "Slayer 66 2/3: A Metal Band Biography... or, How F*kin' Slayer Kicked F*kin' @ss," which is available in three different lengths / sizes, plus a mostly-color ebook. In most of the other episodes, that's what he does. Mostly.This is the final episode of Talkin’ Slayer, Season 2. We’ll return with season Four in early 2026. And when we do, we might not be on Spotify, because of Spotify’s various and sundry f*kery and assorted acts of f@keration. So keep your antenna up.You can keep updated for free at Patreon: Patreon.com/SlayerBookUntil season 4, Patreon supporters can hear season 3, weekly, for less than $1 an episode. Until now, free listeners got every other episode. For season 3, free listeners get none.DEEZ NOTES... things referenced in the showPHOTOS: Like 80 pictures I took at the show, randomly shuffledVIDEO: Slayer's full setVIDEO: Exodus' set... someVIDEO: Cavalera Conspiracy's full setVIDEO: Power Trip's full setVIDEO: Suicidal's full setVIDEO: Knocked Loose's full setAUDIO: Exodus' Let There Be Blood, a re-recording of Bonded, featuring Rob Dukes on vocalsAUDIO: Let There Be Blood album on SpotifyAUDIO: Knocked Koose’s “Mistakes Like Fractures”VIDEO: Slayer cover Exodus' "Strike of the Beast" in 2013The new & improved & updated & embiggened book Ferris reads from every week, "Slayer 66 2 /3: A Metal Band Biography..., or, How Fkin' Slayer Kicked F*kin' @ss" — all four versions.Free listeners miss every other episode.Patreon supporters get an episode every week, plus more bonus Slaytanic content. Packages start at less than $1 an episode. Premiums include stickers, a shout-out on the show, and a free version of the audbiobook when it's finished.Learn more at Patreon.com/SlayerBook .If you want to drop some ducats in the virtual tip jar... or you'd rather make a one-time payment for a VIP all-access pass, you can do it at ko-fi.com/slayerbook . You can order autographed books here, or pre-order the audiobook.GRATITUDE.
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