The Unholy Alliance Tour is a biennial heavy metal

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and

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, with the tag-line "Preaching to the Perverted". The tour is headlined by the

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band

Slayer Slayer was an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California. The band was formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, drummer Dave Lombardo and bassist/vocalist Tom Araya. Slayer's fast and aggressive musical style ...

, and featured

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Amon Amarth Amon Amarth () is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, formed in 1992. The band takes its name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom, a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Their lyrics mostly deal with Viking mythology and hi ...

and

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in its latest edition.

Europe 2004

The 2004 European edition of the tour featured the following bands:

, Slipknot,

and

Hatebreed Hatebreed is an American hardcore band from Bridgeport, Connecticut, formed in 1994. The band released its debut album '' Satisfaction is the Death of Desire'' in 1997, which gave the band a cult following. The band signed to Universal Records ...

. Typical Slayer Setlist "Darkness Of Christ udio Introduction # "Disciple" # "War Ensemble" # "At Dawn They Sleep" # "Fight Till Death" # "Mandatory Suicide" # "Hallowed Point" # "Dead Skin Mask" # "Seasons in the Abyss" # "Chemical Warfare" # "Hell Awaits" # "South of Heaven" # " Angel of Death" Encore: #

"Postmortem" # "

Raining Blood "Raining Blood" is a song by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Written by Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King for the 1986 studio album ''Reign in Blood'', the song's religious concept is about overthrowing Heaven. The song is four minutes and fou ...

" Typical Slipknot Setlist "Prelude 3.0" udio Introduction # "The Blister Exists" # "(sic)" # "Disasterpiece" # "Three Nil" # "

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" # "Pulse of the Maggots" # "Iowa" # " The Heretic Anthem" # " Duality" # " Spit It Out" "(515)" layed from tape #

"People = Shit" # "

Wait and Bleed "Wait and Bleed" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released as the band's debut single off their 1999 self-titled debut album. After being remixed to replace the screamed vocals in the verses with more melodic singing, it was re ...

" # "Surfacing" Danger - Keep Away layed from tape Typical Mastodon Setlist # "Iron Tusk" # " March of the Fire Ants" # "Where Strides the Behemoth" # "I Am Ahab" # "Megalodon" # "Blood and Thunder"

North America 2006

The 2006 North American edition of the tour, called "Chapter I", featured the following bands:

as headliners,

Lamb of God Lamb of God ( el, Ἀμνὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, Amnòs toû Theoû; la, Agnus Dei, ) is a title for Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John. It appears at John 1:29, where John the Baptist sees Jesus and exclaims, "Behold the Lamb of God wh ...

as "direct support" band,

Children of Bodom Children of Bodom was a Finnish melodic death metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993 as Inearthed, the final line-up of the group upon their split in 2019 consisted of Alexi Laiho (lead guitar, lead vocals), Jaska Raatikainen (drums), Henkka Sep ...

and

in rotating slots,

Thine Eyes Bleed Thine Eyes Bleed is a Canadian melodic death metal band from London, Ontario. History Thine Eyes Bleed took part in a US tour in 2004. They released their first album '' In the Wake of Separation'' in 2005. Johnny Araya's brother Tom Araya is t ...

as opening act. The Vancouver show was filmed for a forthcoming DVD, with camera angles from above the bands and in among the audience. The DVD was released on October 30, 2007.

Europe 2006

2006 European edition, called "Chapter II", featured the following bands:

as headliners,

In Flames In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by guitarist Jesper Strömblad in Gothenburg in 1990. Alongside At the Gates and Dark Tranquillity, In Flames pioneered the genres known as Swedish death metal and melodic death metal. During t ...

as "direct support" band,

and

in rotating slots,

as opening act. The lineup was identical to the American leg except for

, who were replaced by

. The French group Gojira was the second band to perform in Paris on November 7, 2006.

References

External links

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