Mayhem Pageant Makes it’s Wonderful Go back to Southern California for 2024!
Calling all headbangers! The mythical Mayhem Pageant is moshing its long ago in 2024, however with a twist: this yr, it’s a one-day, Southern California throwdown! Mark your calendars for October twelfth and get ready for a brutal attack to your senses on the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino – the very position the place Mayhem first ignited the inside steel scene.
Get in a position for a 23-band steel marathon that includes a killer lineup. Mayhem has a long-standing recognition for each raising established giants like KORN, SLIPKNOT, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, and Rob Zombie, and launching the careers of long run heavy hitters like LAMB OF GOD, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, UNDEROATH, MASTODON and WHITECHAPEL. This yr’s display guarantees to be no other, with a killer mixture of Mayhem veterans (4 to be precise) and 19 contemporary faces in a position to rip down the level.
2024 Mayhem Pageant lineup:
BAD OMENS
PARKWAY DRIVE
ARCHITECTS
JINJER
POPPY
KITTIE
AUGUST BURNS RED (enjoying “Constellations”)
SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET (feat. Shavo Odadjian from SYSTEM OF A DOWN; first display ever)
WE CAME AS ROMANS
SUICIDE SILENCE
AFTER THE BURIAL
HANABIE
THROWDOWN (first California display in 13 years)
BORN OF OSIRIS
MOTHICA
PEYTON PARRISH (first-ever West Coast display)
DARKEST HOUR
UNEARTH
BRUTUS
IT DIES TODAY (first West Coast Display in additional than 10 years)
ESCUELA GRIND
HOLY WARS
ROMAN CANDLE
Remember the fact that close to pass over in 2020? Mayhem at first deliberate a comeback that yr after a five-year hiatus, however the world pandemic threw a wrench in the ones plans. This yr, then again, the wait is in spite of everything over!
Based in 2008 via Trucks Warped Excursion mastermind Kevin Lyman and spouse John Reese, Mayhem briefly changed into a metalhead’s paradise. Through the years, it’s hosted iconic acts like SLIPKNOT, SLAYER, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, ASKING ALEXANDRIA and UNDEROATH, solidifying its position as a breeding floor for all issues heavy.
After SLAYER headlined the 2015 version, whispers of the pageant’s loss of life circulated, fueled via each declining attendance and a few not-so-complimentary remarks from SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. John Reese, in a 2015 social media put up, introduced the pageant’s closure, highlighting their determination to supporting artists and fostering the steel group.
In the meantime, Kevin Lyman pointed against a possible shift within the steel scene as a reason why for the pageant’s struggles. He lamented the decrease attendance and steered that established steel bands weren’t prepared to regulate their charges for the sake of the entire scene’s expansion.
Whilst some, like Kerry King, disagreed and positioned blame at the reserving technique, the pageant took a hiatus.
King went on to inform the Houston Press that the issue with that summer season’s Mayhem Pageant wasn’t with the steel bands themselves however with the way in which the true pageant used to be booked.
“I didn’t take what [Lyman] mentioned in my opinion,” Kerry mentioned. “He simply unquestionably had a mike installed entrance of him and mentioned some shit that’s negative to this excursion and any excursions he has at some point — no longer simply Mayhem, however no matter else he promotes. As a result of, to me, he dedicated trade suicide.
“On the finish of the day, what I believe came about to Mayhem used to be that they waited too past due within the recreation to get the ability they had to pull it off accurately,” Kerry persevered. “As a result of what occurs is, other folks get booked up so early this present day that it kind of feels like all of the bands that can have made this extra of a luck are enjoying in Europe now as an alternative of being on a U.S. pageant. It simply made the ability pool not up to it may well be.”
Fortunately, the ones whispers will also be laid to relaxation. Mayhem is again, and it guarantees to be a brutal, unforgettable go back to shape.
So, snatch your tickets, get away your pit equipment, and get ready for an afternoon of natural steel mayhem! It is a comeback you received’t wish to pass over.
