Mayhem Festival

Since its launch in 2008, the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival has quickly become one of top U.S. metal tours. Some of the biggest names in music have headlined the fest in the past, including Motorhead, Slayer and Slipknot in 2012. No bands have been announced yet, but the dates and cities for this year's trek have just been unveiled.

Ever since the 2012 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival lineup was announced, many fans have loudly voiced their opinions about thrash icons Anthrax not performing on the main stage alongside Slayer and Slipknot. In a new conversation with Frank Bello though, the Anthrax bassist explains that they landed as the headliner on the second stage by design.

As I Lay Dying have made the transition from the studio to the stage this summer, as they recently completed the recording of their sixth album, ‘Awakened.’ Loudwire caught up with drummer Jordan Mancino at the San Bernardino, Calif., kickoff of the Mayhem Festival to discuss the new disc (due Sept. 25), their bond with producer Bill Stevenson and details about the video the band just shot. Read M

Slipknot are back on tour, bringing the music, the showmanship and the energy to audiences this summer as part of the Mayhem tour. Loudwire caught up with percussionist Chris Fehn at the opening show of the Mayhem Festival run to discuss the band’s live act and their future music plans, as well as his own personal heroes.

With the Mayhem Festival under way this summer, each of the bands will get very familiar with the music of their cohorts. So we at Loudwire asked a number of the acts what songs from their peers on the bill that they feel are so genius that they wished it was part of their catalog. As you can see, the veteran acts are getting a lot of love.

Singer Joey Belladonna is back in the Anthrax fold again after a long time away from the band, and the vocalist says that times are better than ever with the band as they play the Mayhem Festival this summer. We caught up with Joey at opening day of the Mayhem Festival in San Bernardino, Calif., to get his thoughts on the touring life and how he feels about working with the band again on new music

Percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan of Slipknot was the guest on Full Metal Jackie’s radio show this past weekend. Crahan talked about how the importance of headlining Mayhem Festival this year, his mindset onstage, what launching Knotfest means to him and much more. If you missed Full Metal Jackie’s show, read the full interview with Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan below:

If there is one metal festival you should see this year, it would be the Mayhem Festival. This year’s tour officially kicked off Saturday (June 30), and it was a first for many bands on the trek.

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(metalunderground) While the official announcement has yet to be made, initial details about the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival 2011 are being reported around the 'net. Blabbermouth.net reports that Disturbed and Godsmack are rumored to be headlining this summer's touring festival, which will kick off in early July.