SLAYER Returns To Live Stage In Melbourne; Video Available

March 4, 2011

SLAYER returned to the live stage earlier tonight (Friday, March 4) at the Melbourne stop of Australia's Soundwave traveling festival less than a week after the band's frontman Tom Araya was hospitalized because he was suffering from what his wife said was "vertigo due to extreme dehydration and lack of rest."

The band's setlist for the Melbourne show:

01. World Painted Blood
02. Hate Worldwide
03. War Ensemble
04. Postmortem
05. Hallowed Point
06. Americon
07. Payback
08. Mandatory Suicide
09. Temptation

Encore:

10. South of Heaven
11. Raining Blood
12. Black Magic
13. Angel of Death

Check out fan-filmed video footage of the concert below.

SLAYER was forced to cancel its appearance at the Sydney, Australia stop of the Soundwave festival on Sunday, February 27 as a result of Araya's illness.

SLAYER is currently on the road without founding guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who underwent emergency surgery on his right arm in January after contracting a serious infection, possibly caused by a spider bite. He is now recuperating at home and is expected to make a full recovery. He will return to the SLAYER lineup as soon as he has fully recovered.

Hanneman's temporary replacement for the Soundwave festival is Gary Holt from veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS.

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