Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival

Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour is riotous road show featuring metal bands that have either recently released their albums or are about to launch a new album. Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival presents it audience with some of the hard music's popular artists and a plethora of the genre's most breath-taking young voices. The festival is scheduled to start off on July 9th. Seattle is its first destination and it will continue to perform in 30 cities of the USA and Canada.

For the first time, Rockstar Energy mayhem festival is being sponsored by Rockstar energy drink with other so-sponsors including Jagermeister, Hot topic and The Dingstore.com. Fuse Television and Revolver Magazine are its media partners whereas Live Nation is promoting the festival nationally.

Rockstar mayhem is consisting of around 40 hard rock bands that are categorically divided into Main Stage, Jagermeister Stage and Hot Topic Stage.

Main Stage includes:
Slipknot
Disturbed
DragonForce
Mastodon
Jagermeister Stage is comprising of:
Machine Head
Airbourne
Five Finger Death Punch
Walls of Jericho
Jagermeister Battle of the Bands Winner
Hot Topic Stage includes following bands:
Underoath
Black Tide
Suicide Silence
The Red Chord
36 Crazyfists

Slipknot:
It's an American new metal band from Iowa. The band was officially formed in 1995 consisting of Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Chris Fehn, Paul Gray, Jim Root, Shawn Crahan, Craig Jones, Corey Taylor and Mick Thomson. The band has released its three albums to date and is working on the forth album. Its debut album was Slipknot released in 1999 and the forth album is expected to be available in markets in September 2008..

Slipknot musical influence includes hip hop, extreme metal and industrial. The band plays lead, bass and rhythm guitar. There're two percussionists in addition to the primary drummer, and electronics. The band music is a fine amalgam of diverse vocal styles and melodious & rapping singing. However the lyrics rather follow an aggressive tone.

Disturbed
The band was officially formed in 1996 and is consisting of David Draiman, Dan Donegn, Mike Wengren and Steve Fuzz Kmak. Disturbed is a nu metal rock band from Chicago, Illinois. But, its genre is being debated as it is generally regarded as heavy metal or hard rock band by some music critics. However there is also a quarter of people which consider it as alternative metal. When David Draiman was asked about Disturbed fans not finding it heavy enough he replied, We probably have too much melody going on or we're not quite as turbulent or caustic. While I really love that type of music, it's not what we try to do. If we have to place things in context, we're more hard rock than heavy metal these days. To date Disturbed has released three albums named "The Sickness", "Believe" and "Ten Thousand Fists". The band has scheduled to release their fourth album "Indestructible" in June 2008.

DragonForce
An English power metal band DragonForce was formed in London in 19999. The band soon gained popularity among masses for its twin guitar solos, fast paced songs and incorporation of video games music in to their music. Unfortunately, DragonForce had to go through many transitional phases several times. The members associated with band currently are Herman Li, Sam Totman, ZP Theart, vadim Pruzhanov, Dave Makintosh and Fredrick Leclercq.

'Valley of the Damned', 'Starfire', 'Through the fire and Flames' were amongst their hit songs they sung. Till date they have produced two albums Sonic Firestorm and Inhuman Rampage. Their latest album is scheduled to be launched in August 2008.

Mastodon
Mastodon got public recognition soon after it was formed. Mastodon is a heavy metal music band from Georgia and appeared for the first time in 1999. It is also regarded as Groove metal, Progressive metal and Sludge metal for it has always come up with variation and diverse music.

Its members include Brann dailor, Brent hinds, Troy sanders and Bill Kelliher. The band has released several albums-a hit after hit. Lifesblood, Remission, Blood Mountain, Call of the Mastodon, leviathan etc are amongst their albums that did large scale business. Mastodon was also nominated for Grammy Award.

Machine Head
Machine head is a heavy metal band from California formed in 1992. Key figures forming the band are Robb Flynn, Adam Duce, Dave McClain and Phil Demmel. The group has been under pressure by continuous changes and drug abuse since its formation.

'Burn My eyes'-the debute album- was a success. 'The burning red' was another bead of the garland and released in 1997. Later Machine Head released 'Supercharger','Through the Ashes of Empires' and 'the Blackening' in 1997. Machine Head was also nominated for Grammy Award in 2008.

Airbourne
It's an Australian hard rock band that gained a steady popularity for their pub-rock sounds. The group is regarded as heavy metal by music critics. It hit the music industry with two albums 'ready to Rock' and 'Runnin' wild' that gave them more commercial success. Airbourne has also been nominated for several awards.

Five Finger Death punch
An American Crushcore band is consisting of Ivan Moody, Zoltan Bathory, Darrell, Roberts, Matt Snell and Jeremy Spencer. The group is currently working with firm Music and has launched two albums 'Pre-Emptive Strike' and 'The way of the Fist under their umbrella'. The music produced by the band also carries the genres like groove metal and thrash metal.

Underoath
Underoath is a Grammy nominated band formed in 1998. They are working with Solid records and are the label's best selling group. Having gone through several line-up transitions, the band left with only one original member, Aaron Gillespie. In the beginning, Underoath came up with a more metal sound. Now they're playing metalcore and screamo. Their albums include 'They're Only Chasing Safety' and Define the Great Line. However, Underoath is planning to release another album in 2008.

Black Tide
It's an American heavy metal band of young members from Florida and was formed in 2004. The group is currently signed to Interscope Records. Black Tide comprises Gabriel Garcia, Alex Nunez, Zachary Sandler, and Steven Spence. It has recently released its debut album, 'Light From Above', in March 2008