I could hear high-pitched guitar licks and pounding drums from 200 feet out, but all the words were muffled from my vantage point.
Only problem with that stage: the vocal volume was never high enough. Early-bird acts (starting at 1 p.m.) like As I Lay Dying and Asking Alexandria incited some sizable circle pits, though nothing compared to the teeming masses – moshing in what looked like an infinitely expanding radius – that turned out for Anthrax, who headlined the afternoon fare on the smaller Jägermeister stage situated at the top of the venue’s grassy hill. Yet for the first part of the day, that chaos was fairly controlled. The touring event’s kickoff at Devore’s San Manuel Amphitheater, including performances from two of those four, Anthrax and Slayer, plus impressive turns from Motörhead, Slipknot and a slew of upstarts – proved as much with more than 10 hours of music, motocross and, of course, mayhem.
Next to last year’s Big 4 bash in Indio – which for the first time in forever on the West Coast pulled together Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica on the same grounds as Coachella – this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival lineup is easily one of heavy metal’s most powerful bills to ever land in Southern California. Slipknot's Corey Taylor at Mayhem Festival.
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