Mayhem Festival 2015 was the eighth and final annual
Mayhem Festival. It was confirmed that
Slayer
Slayer was an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California. The band was formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, drummer Dave Lombardo and bassist/vocalist Tom Araya. Slayer's fast and aggressive musical style ...
,
King Diamond,
Hellyeah
Hellyeah, stylized as HELLYEAH, was an American heavy metal supergroup formed in Dallas, Texas, in 2006. The band's last lineup consisted of lead vocalist Chad Gray, guitarists Christian Brady and Tom Maxwell, bassist Kyle Sanders, and drumme ...
and
The Devil Wears Prada will be headlining the festival, while
Whitechapel,
Thy Art Is Murder
Thy Art Is Murder is an Australian deathcore band from Blacktown, Sydney, that formed in 2006. The band consists of vocalist Chris "CJ" McMahon, guitarists Sean Delander and Andy Marsh, drummer Jesse Beahler and bassist Kevin Butler. Thy Art I ...
,
Jungle Rot and
Sister Sin
Sister Sin is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg. The band released four full-length albums, with the most recent ''Black Lotus (Sister Sin album), Black Lotus'' released October 27, 2014. Sister Sin toured in Europe and North America ...
would be among those supporting. Dates were announced on April 13, 2015.
Mayhem Festival 2015 lineup
Main stage
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Slayer
Slayer was an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California. The band was formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, drummer Dave Lombardo and bassist/vocalist Tom Araya. Slayer's fast and aggressive musical style ...
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King Diamond
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Hellyeah
Hellyeah, stylized as HELLYEAH, was an American heavy metal supergroup formed in Dallas, Texas, in 2006. The band's last lineup consisted of lead vocalist Chad Gray, guitarists Christian Brady and Tom Maxwell, bassist Kyle Sanders, and drumme ...
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The Devil Wears Prada
Victory Records Stage
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Whitechapel
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Thy Art Is Murder
Thy Art Is Murder is an Australian deathcore band from Blacktown, Sydney, that formed in 2006. The band consists of vocalist Chris "CJ" McMahon, guitarists Sean Delander and Andy Marsh, drummer Jesse Beahler and bassist Kevin Butler. Thy Art I ...
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Jungle Rot
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Sister Sin
Sister Sin is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg. The band released four full-length albums, with the most recent ''Black Lotus (Sister Sin album), Black Lotus'' released October 27, 2014. Sister Sin toured in Europe and North America ...
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Sworn In
Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon ', also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to giv ...
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Shattered Sun
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Feed Her to the Sharks
Feed Her to the Sharks was an Australian metalcore band from Melbourne, formed in 2008 and disbanded in early 2019. The band has self-released two full-length albums, ''The Beauty of Falling'' (2010) and ''Savage Seas'' (2013), along with a thi ...
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Code Orange
* Kissing Candice
Dates
°July 22, New Hampshire's show was cancelled and was replaced with Erie, Pennsylvania.
References
Mayhem Festival by year
2015 in American music
2015 music festivals
2015 festivals in the United States
June 2015 events in the United States
July 2015 events in the United States
August 2015 events in the United States
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