Slayer, Manson Spread Mayhem

01/27/09 1:34pm

Slayer and Marilyn Manson will co-headline the three-stage, 11-band lineup for this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour.

Slayer, Marilyn Manson and Bullet For My Valentine will play the main stage, while Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Job For A Cowboy, Behemoth and Whitechapel will preside over the Hot Topic stage. And you can be sure that shots will be downed when Trivium, All That Remains and God Forbid take the Jagermeister stage.

The two headliners toured North America together with openers Bleeding Through two years ago.

Last year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour featured Slipknot, Disturbed, DragonForce, Mastodon, Airbourne, Five Finger Death Punch, 36 Crazyfists, Machine Head, Black Tide, Suicide Silence, The Red Chord and Walls Of Jericho.

"I think people thought we would have a hard time coming up with a lineup that matched up with 2008," says tour co-founder Kevin Lyman, the man who also launched the annual Warped Tour. "Well, I think we did."

No venues have been announced, and dates are subject to change, but here's what Revolver magazine is reporting as the tentative schedule for the 2009 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival:

July 10 Sacramento, CA
July 11 San Francisco, CA
July 12 San Bernardino, CA
July 14 Seattle, WA
July 17 Phoenix, AZ
July 18 Albuquerque, NM
July 19 Denver, CO
July 21 Kansas City, MO
July 22 St. Louis, MO
July 24 Atlanta, GA
July 25 Indianapolis, IN
July 26 Chicago, IL
July 28 Toronto, ON
July 29 Scranton, PA
July 31 Cleveland, OH
Aug. 1 Pittsburgh, PA
Aug. 2 Detroit, MI
Aug. 4 Boston, MA
Aug. 6 Virginia Beach, VA
Aug. 7 Camden, NJ
Aug. 8 Hartford, CT
Aug. 9 Washington, DC
Aug. 11 Tampa, FL
Aug. 12 West Palm Beach, FL
Aug. 14 Dallas, TX
Aug. 15 Houston, TX
Aug. 16 San Antonio, TX