They started with a short intro, then full blast Slipknot craziness! Amazing-ness ensued for the next hour. I swear, their set-list was made for me; they played all my favorite songs. Their stage prescence was phenomenal, even with being short two band members. The lights, fire, rotating drum sets, all of it was insane!

Mayhem in Denver lived up to the awesome of previous years and the sold out crowd, which stayed to the last note of the night, went home sun burnt and exhausted but completely metalized and stoked.

This year Denver’s Mayhem was on July 18th and we made sure we brought the rain and the pain on good Ol’ Mayhems Eve.

The Rockstar Mayhem Festival is the Shangri-La for metal heads and for many of us the concert highlight of the year. It is bigger, louder, and more freakin badass than anything else running. Mayhem is actually so freakin cool I quit my last “real” job to hop on the Mayhem wagon train for the 2008 tour as a media type dude. Rockstar Mayhem Festival is a showcase where the icons of metal come together with the brightest new stars. The Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2009 brought the legends, the brutal new metal stars, and some guaranteed crowd favorites out in force. Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Killswitch Engage and Bullet For My Valentine played on the main stage and the likes of Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, Job for A Cowboy, Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid and White Chapel played the other 2 stages.

Randy Weitzel, former guitarist for Flatline has not missed a beat since the unheralded dissolution of the L.A. based band.