SLAYER's second night at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on November 14 was stopped for several minutes after fans began damaging parts of the 17,500-capacity arena. The show was the second of two Forum dates celebrating the 40th anniversary of Reign In Blood.
Seven songs in, after "Jihad", the band walked off. Tom Araya then returned alone to explain why: the fire marshals had paused the concert, and it would stay paused until the crowd got itself under control.
Araya made a clear distinction between the pit and the rest of the building. Going crazy in front of the stage, "where there's nothing you can destroy — except each other", was fine. Wrecking things outside that area, especially in the seated sections, was not — and it was the band who would end up paying for it. "There's no one to blame but you," he said, singling out the people behind the floor crowd rather than the fans up front. "Have you ever heard me talk to you like this?" He left with a warning that if it continued, the band would go home, and a parting shot: "Let's see how you act. We might come back."
They did. After a pause of several minutes SLAYER resumed with "Seasons In The Abyss" and played the rest of the 23-song set, which included Reign In Blood in full plus three songs back in the set for the first time in years: "God Send Death" (last played in 2016), "Bloodline" and "The Antichrist" (both last played in 2017).
Setlist, Kia Forum, Los Angeles, November 14, 2026:
- Disciple
- God Send Death
- Bloodline
- Payback
- War Ensemble
- The Antichrist
- Jihad
- Seasons In The Abyss
- Born Of Fire
- Dead Skin Mask
- Hell Awaits
- South Of Heaven
- Angel Of Death
- Piece By Piece
- Necrophobic
- Altar Of Sacrifice
- Jesus Saves
- Criminally Insane
- Reborn
- Epidemic
- Postmortem
- Raining Blood
- Black Magic
Araya has made this speech before. On August 31, 1988, during the South Of Heaven tour, fans at New York's Felt Forum tore up seat cushions and hurled them across the hall during "Ghosts Of War", sending the band backstage. Araya came out and told the crowd they were "blowin' it, big time" before SLAYER closed with "Angel Of Death" — and the band never played the Felt Forum again.
The Reign In Blood 40th-anniversary shows began earlier this year, including the full-album performance in Shakopee we covered in September.