The Mayhem Festival will return for a fifth year this summer with its usual stop at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre in Englewood.

Modern masked metalheads Slipknot will co-headline the traveling tour alongside one of the genre’s foremost acts, Slayer.

The Mayhem Festival has surpassed Ozzfest as metal’s most prominent, high-profile traveling spectacle.

Anthrax, considered one of “The Big 4″ metal acts (along with Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica) will headline the Jagermeister side stage at the event. As I Lay Dying, the Devil Wears Prada and Asking Alexandria are among the rotating bands on the tour, according to the release.

Tickets for the July 8 stop at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre go on sale Friday, April 6 through Live Nation.

Revisit Reverb’s coverage of the 2011 Mayhem Festival.

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John Hendrickson is the managing editor of Reverb and a multimedia journalist for The Denver Post. Follow his rants on music and more on Twitter.