Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

We're just over two weeks away from the start of the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL featuring KORN, ROB ZOMBIE and a plethora of hard music's hottest and heaviest acts. Ticket sales for the Live Nation promoted tour are already 29% higher than what they were this time last year, with fans gearing up for the July 10th launch date at the San Manuel Amphitheatre in San Bernardino, CA.

This fall, two of the most popular bands in metal will co-headline a 34-city North American tour as the Grammy® Award-winning Mastodon hits the road with Dethklok, the world’s most brutal animated death metal band from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse. In one of the most highly-anticipated tours of the year, the Adult Swim Presents Dethklok and Mastodon tour will kick off on October 2 in Portland, Ore. and bring mayhem and destruction to local venues throughout the nation. Adding even more layers to

(Photo - Scott Alexander ) For nearly three decades, bassist/vocalist Tom Araya, guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, and drummer Dave Lombardo have proven over and over, whether in the studio or on the concert stage, that there is Slayer and then there’s everyone else. And they’re about to do it again, first with the band’s co-headline spot on this summer’s Mayhem Festival, and then with the late summer release of their ninth studio album, World Painted Blood (American Recordings/Columbi