Mayhem will invade the airwaves this weekend thanks to SiriusXM’s “Liquid Metal”… and Finland’s CHILDREN OF BODOM.
Liquid Metal’s “MAYHEM FEST WEEKEND” has taken over satellite radio's Channel 40 and is bringing this summer's 6th Annual Rockstar Mayhem Festival to your car, your living room, and your fully-furnished garage paradise. Specialty programming began today at 6 a.m. PACIFIC / 9 a.m. EASTERN and concludes on Monday morning, July 29th at midnight PACIFIC / 3 a.m. EASTERN.
Coverage will include interviews by Liquid Metal host Jose Mangín with 12 different performers from the Mayhem Fest line-up every hour. Listeners will also hear exclusive, live concert performances recorded at the July 19th (Scranton, Pennsylvania) and July 23rd (Holmdel, New Jersey) shows.
CHILDREN OF BODOM’s headlining set from the Musicians Institute stage at the PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey on July 23rd will air:
• TODAY, Friday, July 26th :: 4 p.m. PACIFIC / 7 p.m. EASTERN
• TOMORROW, Saturday, July 27th :: 10 a.m. PACIFIC / 1 p.m. EASTERN
• Monday, July 29th :: 10 p.m. PACIFIC / 1 a.m. EASTERN
Remaining COB Rockstar Mayhem tour dates & upcoming off-date shows include:
07/26/13 Klipsch Music Center - Noblesville, IN
07/27/13 First Midwest Bank Amphitheater - Tinley Park, IL
07/28/13 DTE Energy Music Theatre - Clarkson, MI
07/29/13 Expo 5 - Louisville, KY** *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Behemoth, JFAC*
07/30/13 Lakewood Amphitheater – Atlanta, GA
07/31/13 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheater – Tampa, FL
08/02/13 Tower Amphitheater – Austin, TX
08/03/13 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - Woodlands, TX
08/04/13 Gexa Energy Pavilion – Dallas, TX
08/05/13 Cricket Wireless Amphitheater - Bonner Sprint, KS *COB off-date with Rob Zombie, Machine Head, and Amon Amarth*
08/07/13 Pop’s - St. Louis, MO *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Battlecross, and Huntress*
08/08/13 Marathon Music Works - Nashville, TN** *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Battlecross, and Huntress*
08/09/13 Peabody’s - Cleveland, OH** *COB off-date with Amon Amarth, Battlecross, and Huntress*
08/11/13 HEAVY MTL 2013 Festival @ Parc Jean Drapeau – Montreal, QC – CANADA
**headlining show
Pre-sale ticket links for COB tour dates are available on the band’s official Facebook page.
Halo Of Blood, the eighth studio album by CHILDREN OF BODOM, debuted on the American Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #54, at #21 on the Canadian Top 200 Albums chart, and on the World Sales Top 50 chart at #42 following its release.
Visit the CHILDREN OF BODOM Landing Page to check out the various Halo Of Blood bundles (exclusive album art t-shirt + CD/digi-pak/vinyl). The album’s special edition digi-pak version features the bonus track “Sleeping In My Car” and a “Making Of” DVD.
Purchase the album digitally on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/COBiT
ABOUT COB: Over the last twenty years, Finland’s CHILDREN OF BODOM have incorporated many different musical styles into their celebrated sound, leading critics and fans to label them as melodic death metal, power metal, thrash metal, symphonic black metal, and neoclassical metal. Their enthralling mix of melodic hooks and instrumental acrobatics have solidified the band as one of the leading voices of music's new generation. Formed as Inearthed in 1993, the group is led by superstar frontman / guitarist Alexi ‘Wildchild’ Laiho, who was voted "Best Metal Guitarist" by readers of Guitar World magazine. COB albums are no strangers to debut positions on the American Billboard Top 200 chart and with three consecutive albums debuting at number one on Finnish album charts, they are one of their home country’s bestselling artists of all time with more than 250,000 records sold there alone. Their last studio album, Relentless Reckless Forever, was released in 2011.
Halo Of Blood was recorded at Danger Johnny Studios in Helsinki, Finland with recording engineer Mikko Karmila, who worked on t
