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.

We've got more exclusive photos and live coverage of the 2012 Mayhem Festival. For the final date of the massive metal fest in Hartford, Conn., each band gave a little extra for the conclusion of the tour.

Coming off one of the most successful summers to date with the Mayhem Festival, there was a lot of anticipation for what the inaugural Mayhem Festival Cruise would bring this December.

For the last two months the 2012 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival has been bringing a healthy dose of metal and mayhem to stops across the U.S. After finally making its way to the East Coast, the metal extravaganza wraps up today (Aug. 5) clocking in its last show at the Comcast Centre in Hartford. Ct.

Whitechapel are one of the many bands on this year's impressive Mayhem Festival lineup. The Tennessee-based band also released their self-titled, fourth studio album earlier in the year.

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.

Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe is expected to be bailed out of a Czech jail today (Monday) after spending much of the past week behind bars over an alleged manslaughter charge relating to a concert incident two years ago. The shocking news has sent shockwaves through the metal world, and a number of the bands on this year's Mayhem Tour offered their thoughts on the incident when Loudwire caught u

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.

Most of us haven't bought into the whole 2012 apocalypse thing, but with the amount of metal festivals that are being held on cruise ships this winter, we're starting to think that the metal gods know something we don't.

It has just been confirmed that Lamb of God, Machine Head and Anthrax, along with members of Korn and Slipknot, will bring metal to the high seas on the maiden voyage of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest Cruise.