And Your 2011 Mayhem Lineup......(Drum Roll, Please)

I think it's pretty apparent by now that when Mayhem Festival states on their site that "announcements will be released in January," that means these announcements will arrive on January 31. They even teased us a little bit this year by saying the lineup would be announced last Wednesday.  PSYCH!  But here it is, folks.  At long last, the lineup for the 2011 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival has been officially released.  Below after the break you can find the full lineup, dates, and my first impressions of the lineup (something tells me it won't be as good as 2009 was).

Times Of Touring Grace

For the past couple weeks, Times of Grace, the new project of original Killswitch Engage singer Jesse Leach and current KSE guitarist Adam D., have been releasing music video teasers of a few of their songs from their upcoming album The Hymn Of A Broken Man which will be released on Januaray 18, 2011.  I didn't bother to post them up here becasue that wouldn't just gotten annoying plus I find teasers like that annoying anyways.  So I was lulled into believing that would be the only real type of news from them until the new album dropped.

But much to my surprise, they released their upcoming tour information today!  That's right. Times Of Grace's first tour has been officially announced and will begin on February 1.  Their supporting acts will be Straight Line Stitch and War Of Ages.  From the beginning of Times Of Grace, it was said that this side project would be a mix of many musical genres but from what I've heard so far it sounds pretty much like old KSE, which I'm not complaining about at all.  Count me as interested in this one.

Dates for the tour can be seen below after the break.