DATE: APRIL 26, 2005
VELVET REVOLVER JOINS OZZFEST 2005 MAINSTAGE
FOR FINAL SEVEN SHOWS
MAINSTAGE ACT MUDVAYNE’S NEW ALBUM DEBUTS AT #2
ON BILLBOARD’S TOP 200
Thanks to OZZFEST, it looks like the summer of 2005 will be remembered as the hottest and sweatiest ever.
The summer’s premier concert festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a 26-city itinerary running from July 15 in Boston to September 4 in West Palm Beach, has already announced a mighty, unrivaled lineup: the mainstage will feature Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Mudvayne, Shadows Fall and Black Label Society and the second stage will host headliner Rob Zombie, Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Mastodon, The Haunted, In Flames, Arch Enemy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bury Your Dead, Soilwork, Trivium, It Dies Today, A Dozen Furies and more.
And now it welcomes the explosive Velvet Revolver. One of rock’s most successful and acclaimed groups--featuring Scott Weiland (lead vocals), Slash (guitar), Duff McKagan (bass), Matt Sorum (drums) and Dave Kushner (guitar)--will take over Iron Maiden’s mainstage slot for the festival’s last seven dates: August 23, 25, 27, 28, 31 and September 2 and 4.
Velvet Revolver--now embarked on their North American "Electric Wonderland Show" arena tour--stormed onto the music scene last year when their Contraband album debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart, selling over 250,000 copies in the first week and marking the best-ever debut for a new rock artist in the SoundScan era. Contraband has since sold more than three million copies worldwide and produced the Grammy Award-winning #1 rock single "Slither," as well as the band's other #1 rock hit "Fall To Pieces," plus their blazing new single "Dirty Little Thing." Rolling Stone calls the album "modern-rock nirvana...vicious, unapologetic...," while Newsweek describes the band as "truly explosive" and Maxim says “…[Velvet Revolver] bring unpredictability back to rock."
In other OZZFEST news, Lost And Found, the new album from mainstage act Mudvayne, debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 this week, making it both the highest debut and highest charting album of the band’s career. With 152,000 units sold, the album almost doubled the first-week numbers of its previous gold-certified release, 2002’s The End of All Things To Come. The album's success is fueled by the band's #1 rock radio hit, "Happy?"
Originally launched in 1996 as a limited two-city trek, OZZFEST has become a virtual breeding ground for up-and-coming bands. The festival has been instrumental in catapulting the careers of platinum-selling artists like System of a Down, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Incubus, Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack and Chevelle.
Truly a heavy metal juggernaut, OZZFEST has earned the hallowed position of the king of the summer festivals in the busiest tour season with a relentless commitment to its core fans and the consistency of quality they demand as their birthright.
For more OZZFEST information, visit: www.ozzfest.com.
Here’s the OZZFEST line-up:
Mainstage line-up: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Velvet Revolver (select dates), Mudvayne, Shadows Fall and Black Label Society.
Second stage line-up: Rob Zombie, Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Mastodon, The Haunted, In Flames, Arch Enemy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bury Your Dead, Soilwork, Trivium, It Dies Today, A Dozen Furies and more.
Here are the OZZFEST tour dates. “*” indicates shows with Velvet Revolver.
DATE CITY/STATE VENUE
Fri 7/15 Boston, MA Tweeter Center
Sun 7/17 Hartford, CT Meadows
Tue 7/19 Camden, NJ Tweeter Waterfront
Thu 7/21 Buffalo, NY Darien Lakes
Sat 7/23 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette
Sun 7/24 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
Tue 7/26 New York, NY PNC
Sat 7/30 Chicago, IL Tweeter Center
Sun 7/31 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
Tue 8/2 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheatre
Thu 8/4 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sat 8/6 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley
Sun 8/7 Minneapolis, MN Floatrite Park
Thu 8/11 Seattle, WA White River
Sat 8/13 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sun 8/14 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train
Tue 8/16 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Pavilion
Thu 8/18 Phoenix, AZ Cricket
Sat 8/20 Los Angeles, CA Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen
* Tue 8/23 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
* Thu 8/25 Dallas, TX Smirnoff
* Sat 8/27 Houston, TX Cynthia J. Woods Pavilion
* Sun 8/28 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
* Wed 8/31 Nashville, TN Starwood Amphitheatre
* Fri 9/2 Charlotte, NC Verizon
* Sun 9/4 West Palm Beach Sound Advice
Contacts:
OZZFEST
MSO
Mitch Schneider, mschneider@msopr.com
Marcee Rondan, marcee@msopr.com
Lathum Nelson, lnelson@msopr.com
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