Sunday, April 13, 2014

US Summer Metal Festivals

Hey, metalheads! Summer is coming up, so this week we will talk about the few traveling metal festivals that are going to be making their annual circuits around the US in the coming months.

The big daddy of them all is the Rockstar Mayhem Festival. This festival has been around since 2008 and always boasts some of the most popular heavy metal acts around. This year the festival will take place solely in July and August. 


The Mayhem Festival will have four stages this year, giving more bands than ever before the opportunity to perform. The main stage will consist of Avenged Sevenfold, Korn, Asking Alexandria and Trivium. Meanwhile the side stages will have tons of other groups, the most noteworthy ones being Cannibal Corpse, Suicide Silence, Body Count and Emmure. 


Suicide Silence and Body Count are bound to be highly anticipated since Suicide Silence hasn’t toured much since their original vocalist passed away, and Body Count hasn’t been actively touring in a long time. Those two bands alone are bound to draw hordes of fans to the ever popular music festival.


Trespass America is the second big traveling US heavy metal festival. The festival is organized by Metal Hammer and Five Finger Death Punch. FFDP always headlines the tour and brings along some other popular mainstream metal groups. The tour made its first run in 2012 and it looks to be back again this year. If you’re a fan of Five Finger Death Punch, keep on the lookout for dates and supporting acts.


If mainstream metal isn’t really your thing, Summer Slaughter is going to be the festival that you are going to want to attend. Summer Slaughter began in 2001, but wasn’t that successful. It was brought back in 2007 and has continued every year since. The tour is known for boasting popular underground metal acts that are particularly brutal. Death metal is their specialty. The bands and dates of the festival have not yet been announced for 2014. The tour’s Facebook page has been teasing bands a lot recently, though. Expect an announcement rather soon.

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