{"id":973824,"date":"2019-12-03T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/mayhem-festival-has-announced-its-return-for-2020"},"modified":"2019-12-03T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T12:21:00","slug":"mayhem-festival-has-announced-its-return-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/mayhem-festival-has-announced-its-return-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem Festival Has Announced Its Return For 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>The metal step-sibling of Vans Warped Tour is coming back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/Mayhem-Festival-Header.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Rockstar Mayhem Festival has announced its return for 2020, following a five year absence from the touring circuit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The metal step-sibling of Vans Warped Tour was founded in 2008 by Warped&#8217;s Kevin Lyman, and his Taste Of Chaos partner John Reese. Mayhem Festival would tour North America in the summer with a heavier line-up than its counterpart. The likes of&nbsp;<strong>Slipknot<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Motionless In White<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Asking Alexandria<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Underoath<\/strong>&nbsp;and more have all appeared on the Mayhem Fest line-ups over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Mayhem Festival was cancelled after its 2015 run, due to disappointing ticket sales. The announcement was made on Facebook by John Reese:<\/p>\n<p>But now, after five years of silence, Mayhem Fest have announced their return for next year with an Instagram post, with the caption <em>&#8220;don\u2019t call it a comeback.&nbsp;#mayhem2020&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5g6nPklNtp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-11.174157303371\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also updated their Instagram bio to read &#8220;hindsight is 2020.. and so is the return of mayhem.&#8221;, as well as updating their URL (which currently leads to a dead website).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/mayhem-festival-has-announced-its-return-for-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The metal step-sibling of Vans Warped Tour is coming back. Rockstar Mayhem Festival has announced its return for 2020, following a five year absence from the touring circuit.&nbsp; The metal step-sibling of Vans Warped Tour was founded in 2008 by Warped&#8217;s Kevin Lyman, and his Taste Of Chaos partner John Reese. Mayhem Festival would tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:08:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}