The 48 Hours Festival, Powered by Rockstar Energy Drink, featured many of the biggest names in hard rock, including Avenged Sevenfold and Korn, and took place last month on the Las Vegas Strip. RevolverTV was there to capture the weekend in all its glory.
Check out this recap video of the event below, featuring performances and backstage interviews with the likes of Five Finger Death Punch, Hatebreed, Sevendust, and Chris Jericho. For more, download the RevolverTV smart phone app.
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The Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival is holding a Miss Uproar contest. The grand-prize winner will get the title of Sullen Art Collective’s Miss Uproar 2011, as well as become a Sullen Angel model, have the portfolio and career-building opportunity of being featured in a Sullen Art Collective, and a Rockstar Energy Drink ad campaign. Sullen Art Collective’s Miss Uproar 2011 will also win Sullen product, a year supply of Rockstar Energy Drinks, and much more!
Check out the video below, which features members of Avenged Sevenfold, Seether, Sevendust, and Art of Dying—as well as Daisy de la Hoya and Sullen Angels model Bernadette Macias—explain it all in the video below. For more, click here.
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The Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival kicks off at the end of the month (see the dates below), and it’s currently holding a contest where two lucky fans can win the chance to document the show, including headliners Avenged Sevenfold, using Zoom Q3HD cameras on the date of their choice. The contest ends August 24, so enter here now.
In addition to A7X, the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival features main stage artists Three Days Grace, Seether, Bullet for My Valentine, and Escape the Fate. It also includes Best Buy Music Gear Stage headliners Sevendust, as well as Black Tide, Art of Dying, and Hell or Highwater.
August 26 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
August 27 – Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion
August 28 – Boston, MA – Comcast Center
August 31 – Washington, DC – Jiffy Lube Live
September 01 – Virginia Beach, VA – Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
September 03 – Tampa, FL – 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre
September 04 – Biloxi, MS – Mississippi Coast Coliseum
September 05 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
September 09 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
September 10 – Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
September 11 – Hartford, CT – Comcast Theatre
September 13 – Montreal, QC – Parc Jean Drapeau
September 14 – Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
September 16 – Pittsburgh, PA – First Niagara Pavilion
September 17 – Indianapolis, IN – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
September 18 – Chicago, IL – First Midwest Pavillion
September 20 – Milwaukee, WI – Marcus Amphitheater
September 21 – Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center
September 23 – Omaha, NE – WestFair Amphitheater
September 24 – Kansas City, MO – Sandstone Amphitheater
September 25 – St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
September 28 – Calgary, AB – Saddledome
September 29 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place
October 01 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
October 02 – Spokane, WA – Spokane Arena
October 04 – West Valley City, UT – USANA Amphitheater
October 05 – Denver, CO – Comfort Dental Amphitheater
October 07 – Albuquerque, NM – Hard Rock Pavilion
October 08 – Phoenix, AZ – Ashley Furniture Home Store Pavilion
October 09 – San Diego, CA – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
October 13 – Sacramento, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre
October 14 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheater
The inaugural 48 Hours Festival, powered by Rockstar Energy Drink, which promises to be “the world’s biggest rock and roll party weekend,” will take place this October 15 and 16 on the Luxor Festival Grounds in Las Vegas and will feature coheadliners Avenged Sevenfold, Korn, and Godsmack.
Over those two days, two stages will also feature more of hard rock and heavy metal’s biggest names, including Five Finger Death Punch, Three Days Grace, Seether, Bullet For My Valentine, Hollywood Undead, Sick Puppies, Escape the Fate, Sevendust, Hatebreed, Adelitas Way, Rev Theory, 10 Years, Black Tide, Art of Dying, Eyes, Set to Kill, Butcher Babies, Valora, Hell or Highwater, Orange Blossom Special, and more.
But more than a music festival, 48 Hours is a full-on weekend party including oversized European festival style production and exclusive after parties–and even an after, after party at the famous Olympic Gardens.
Plus, fans will also have the chance to purchase and win exclusive VIP packages that offer experiences that could only be had at the 48 Hours Festival like: “The Godfather – All Access,” which will allow fans to watch the show from the stage and backstage bar access, “All Excess – Cabanas” featuring full service cabanas with premium elevated sight lines, and “Debauchery VIP ” with a VIP-only tent and private bar. Once-in-a-lifetime VIP concert experience packages will also be offered online. In addition, those in attendance will have a chance to be upgraded to VIP status as random winners will be announced on stage during the show.
Pre-sale tickets go on sale today. For tickets and more information, go to 48hoursfestival.com.
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Hard rockers Art of Dying released their debut, Vices and Virtues (Intoxication), earlier this year. The group, which will be heading out on the Rockstar Uproar tour in August, plays a special acoustic version of the album’s first song, “Die Trying,” below. Frontman Jonny Hetherington fills us in on the song below. Let us know what you think of the song in the comments.
REVOLVER What’s “Die Trying” about?
JONNY HETHERINGTON “Die Trying” is really the personal story of our band. Starting from nothing, following our dream, and doing whatever it takes to get where we want to be. It’s about never giving up. Figuring out what you want and fully committing yourself is very powerful, but it’s a lot harder than it seems. I mean, it’s easy to say “I’ll do what ever it takes… I want this,” but actually living the struggle day by day, year by year is another thing. It’s not a 90-minute film with a montage, it’s real life. You sacrifice so much to truly put everything you have into your dream and it’s fucking hard… but I think it’s worth it. Even if you don’t get there, you died trying, and I think that’s a pretty killer way to live.
Which part of it did you come up with first?
Greg brought the riff and the meat of the song to me and we worked on the music together on acoustic guitars. The lyrics came to me pretty quickly in the following days. We had a former manager pass away around that time and I wanted to honor him with a song. His name was Jeff “Ffroe” Roe and he was truly a dreamer. I always remembered his email signature and mantra which was, “If you don’t try, you’ll never know.” And that really inspired the pre-chorus line “I’d rather fail than not know.”
How did you come up with this acoustic arrangement?
I do a lot of my best work on the porcelain throne. You’d be surprised at the number of songs on Vices and Virtues that were originated in the can. I love messing around with different acoustic versions of our songs in different tunings. I play in drop B, so I’ve got a lot of room to jump up the frets with a capo, which is exactly how this version of “Die Trying” came to be. I threw the capo on the second fret and rediscovered the song in a new key. It’s a really nice place for the vocals to sit for an acoustic version. It’s actually higher than the original version which allows me to sing the chorus in a lower register but still with some juice behind it. I took it to the guys and we worked together on it in the studio in Chicago with engineer Matt Doughrety. It came together really naturally and we nailed the tempo, allowing it to sway a little more than the plugged-in version. It kind a makes you want to drink rum.
What sort of feedback have you gotten on this song so far?
We get a lot of mail saying it’s become a personal theme for people which is pretty amazing. There’s really nothing more rewarding for me as a musician than to have a song actually resonate and to feel that connection.
When’s the last time you thought to yourself, “I’m going to get this done, or die trying?” What were you doing?
There are the big battles in life, but there are the little ones too, the daily ones. I often trek up this crazy mountain path called the Grouse Grind when I’m home in Vancouver, which is two miles straight up. “Die Trying” always helps get me to the top.