The All Star Tour, featuring acts such as Suicide Silence, Winds of Plague, and The Word Alive, brought brutal breakdowns and tattoos through Denver last week.

Introducing TesseracT, that hails from the U.K., and truly is a treasure that is just now catching the eyes and ears of music fans, musicians and press outside of Europe, including the States and worldwide.

This year, the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL has invited several of today’s hottest acts in hard rock and heavy metal to perform on select dates in the place of specific ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL artists that will not be performing…

What you get, some would say, is chaos, but we just call it the opening date of Warped Tour 2010. Hollywood Music Magazine was there to witness, capture and partake in the debauchery and fun.

For more than a few years, fans and some critics have drawn their own lines about what is metal and what is not. From the early years of Black Sabbath through the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motorhead it was a general consensus, “Oh that is metal!” In the decade following (1980’s) opinions started to stray.