MARILYN MANSON & SLAYER TO TOP THE BILL ON ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL ’09
April 17, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Upcoming Events
Live Nation and 98 KUPD are very proud to announce
MARILYN MANSON & SLAYER
TO TOP THE BILL ON ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL ’09
FRIDAY, JULY 17
LINEUP FOR RIOTOUS ROADSHOW INCLUDES
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, TRIVIUM, CANNIBAL CORPSE,
MANY MORE
Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, the most electrifying carnival to ever
hit the summer concert circuit, is back…and bigger. Hard music legends MARILYN
MANSON and SLAYER will top the bill on this year’s highly anticipated tour,
which is set to kick off July 10 at the Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Sacramento,
CA. The festival will stop in Phoenix at Cricket Wireless Pavilion on Friday,
July 17. Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 24 at 10am.
Like last year’s Godzillian-sized lineup, the second annual Rockstar Energy
Drink Mayhem Festival will feature a gaggle of rock’s heaviest bands: the main
stage will see Marilyn Manson and Slayer joined by BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE and
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE; the Jägermeister stage will feature TRIVIUM, ALL THAT
REMAINS, GOD FORBID and the Jägermeister Battle of the Bands winner; the Hot
Topic stage will feature extreme metal bands CANNIBAL CORPSE, JOB FOR A COWBOY,
BEHEMOTH, BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and WHITECHAPEL. The World’s Greatest Freestyle
Motocross team METAL MULISHA will also be revving up the crowd with their unique
style of death-defying motorcycle stunts on all dates.
The tour will see Manson and Slayer performing tracks from each of their
long-awaited new albums. Manson will be playing “We’re From America” and lead
single “Arma…geddon,” both from new album The High End of Low, in stores May
26th. The album was produced by Manson, longtime friend and foil Twiggy Ramirez
and keyboardist Chris Vrenna. Manson fans will note that this is his first
collaboration with Ramirez in close to a decade.
TICKETS ON-SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 24 AT 10AM
Slayer will tear through “Psychopathy Red” and other new material from their
yet-to-be-titled new album. The band recently announced that “Psychopathy
Red”-the band’s first new song since 2006′s Christ Illusion-will be available as
a 7-inch vinyl disc beginning Saturday, April 18th, as part of the third annual
Record Store Day. Only 5,000 of the limited edition discs will be manufactured
worldwide, and they will be available exclusively at participating independent
record stores (log onto www.recordstoreday.com <http://www.recordstoreday.com/>
for the list of participating retailers). Slayer chose to unleash “Psychopathy
Red” on this day and only through independent record stores to acknowledge the
support those outlets have offered to the band and to metal music over the
years.
Killswitch Engage and producer Brendan O’Brien (Mastodon, Pearl Jam, Rage
Against The Machine) recently wrapped production on the follow-up to 2006′s
gold-certified release, As Daylight Dies. The band appeared on the cover of
Revolver magazine’s 2009 preview issue and was praised by Alternative Press and
Decibel for having “one of the most anticipated albums of 2009.”
Bullet For My Valentine are currently recording a new album with Don Gilmore
(Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne) in London and Wales.
The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is co-produced by Live Nation and is
the brainchild of Kevin Lyman, John Reese and CAA’s Darryl Eaton, the creative
team behind some of the industry’s most successful road jaunts, including the
long-running Vans Warped Tour and the Worldwide Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour.
Following the proven model of utilizing sponsorship to deliver a lower ticket
price and an enhanced concert experience, the tour organizers have joined forces
once again with ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK, the festival’s title sponsor.
In addition to catching a slew of speaker-shredding performances,
festival-goers can take part in a number of activities, including playing the
newest video games, perusing vendors, attending autograph signing sessions and a
host of other interactive activities that will add to the carnival-like
experience.
The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is made possible through the support
of title sponsor Rockstar Energy Drink and supporting sponsors Hot Topic,
Jagermeister, Rockband 2, Hard Rock Cafe, Affliction, Revolver Magazine,
Roadrunner Records, Metal Blade Records, Pick The Band Records, Prosthetic
Records, the Shirts For A Cure Project, media partner FUEL TV and many more!
