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The Uproar Festival, also called the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival, was an annual hard rock and heavy metal tour inaugurated in 2010 by John Reese and sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drink. The tour was also created by John Oakes, Darryl Eaton and Ryan Harlacher from the Creative Artists Agency, and Perry Lavoisne from Live Nation. [1]
Kevin "Thrasher" Gruft played Rockstar's Uproar Music Festival with Escape the Fate and was the lead guitarist in Craig Mabbitt's side project, The Dead Rabbitts, until late summer of 2012. He played and recorded all the guitars on the Deuce album, Nine Lives. In the mid-2012 he Tweeted giving hints about an upcoming solo Album.
Uproar will feature hard rock bands and will begin shortly after the heavy metal tour Mayhem Festival in August 2010. [1] Kevin Lyman expects the tour to continue in Europe, and is unsure if it will return to the US. [2] For the first time since the tour began, Taste of Chaos had no dates in 2011.
On August 17, 2010, Hail The Villain began playing on the Jägermeister stage at the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival tour. The band also played on the Jose Cuervo Second Stage at The Kansas City Rockfest, on the grounds of the Liberty Memorial on May 14, 2011.
Stadium tours are also slated for stars from big names including Bille Eilish, Post Malone, Usher, Katy Perry, Kendrick Lamar, SZA and Coldplay.
In summer 2014 the band once again joined the Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival tour followed by a North American Tour with Godsmack, Seether, Skillet, Pop Evil, and Buckcherry. In January 2015, their second single "Here Comes The Light" was released to radio accompanied by a music video produced by the band's bassist, David Koonce.
The band played on the main stage for the 2011 Rockstar Uproar Festival along with Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Bullet for My Valentine, and Escape the Fate.
Conservatives say a scene from the opening ceremony is a dig at Christianity and "The Last Supper," but Olympics officials say it was a depiction of the Greek god Dionysus.