

Their alternative sound provided a welcome contrast offer a wide variety of rock music and fun. With a relatively drastic change in music styles and rhythms, Smashing Satellites offered something different to a smaller crowd, while the other bands were preparing to enter the stage. They brought an excessive amount of energy, and even considering a few imperfections with the sound this supergroup left none disappointed. Their evolved nu-metal style surprised a few fans, and others were happily enjoying the festival as the day continued.īack on the bigger stage, Hellyeah was about to play their hometown show to a sea of die-hard fans. This young band gave everything they had to the fans without letting the weather delays deter them. With the stress from the storm past, things continued smoothly with Islander. After a long and depressing one-hour delay, the festival got back on track, but unfortunately not soon enough to catch Candlebox hit the Longhorn Stage. It turns out that Texas holds the weirdest weather on the planet as a sudden thunderstorm interrupted the festivities causing a delay and chaos artist and fans alike adjusted to changes in schedule. The band showed genuine appreciation for all the support and promised to return soon.ĭirectly after Avatar, an unfortunate weather event occurred. Their music fired up the crowd, and they stole the afternoon with their theatrical stage presence and unbending energy. Fans that will endure increasing heat and direct sun if they can hear their favorite tracks.įollowing Starset, a heavier sound took the stage in the form of Swedish goth rockers, Avatar. The guys proved that their fan base is a solid one. Taking over the Longhorn Stage, all the band members showed a great passion for what they do. Next up, Starset, a band that has increasingly gained popularity, also brought their unique, inspirational, rocker style. Despite a relatively short career, this band played an excellent show, making fans forget about the afternoon heat and focus on having fun. Although the sound was a bit calmer, they seemed to bring a respectable number of people to listen to their music. Shaman’s Harvest followed and continued with the high vibes. September Mourning kicked off the day with their unusual style of rock music and their concept back story, which is always entertaining and the perfect way to start the festival with just the right dose of adrenaline to get things going.

The Renegade Stage (smallest of the three), followed by the Republic Stage, and the appropriately Texan, Longhorn Stage, featured the bigger bands and headlining acts. The three stages ensured a great mix of audience favorites as well as new acts to check out.
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The event featured lots of food trucks (which are always necessary to survive in music festivals), beer, all kinds of merch, and a free arcade, which is not very common to see. When so many other festivals have stages far apart, Texas Mutiny made it possible to dash easily from one stage to another to catch all your favorite bands.

This festival offered ten hours of non-stop music for fans, and it was evident by the crowds excitement that they’d be quite pleased if this became an annual event.Ī dominant group of bands falling within the rock genre, and a smaller group that lean towards the metal genre, shared time slots among three stages strategically set up for optimum viewing. It turned out to be an ideal spot for music lovers to come out and enjoy performances from their favorite artists.

The Texas Mutiny festival had it’s inaugural run on September 24 in Fort Worth, Texas at the Texas Motor Speedway, which usually doesn’t hold this kind of music event. 257ers / Alligatoah / Amon Amarth / Architects / August Burns Red / Beach Slang / Bebetta / Biffy Clyro / Billy Talent / Birdy Nam Nam / Black Sabbath / Breaking Benjamin / Bring Me The Horizon / Britta Arnold / Bullet for My Valentine / Caliban / Chefboss / DCVDNS / Deftones / Dirty Doering / Disturbed / Fettes Brot / Foals / Frittenbude / Graveyard / Halestorm / Heaven Shall Burn / Heisskalt / Henning Wehland / Irie Révoltés / Issues / Johnossi / Karate Andi / Kid Simius / Killswitch Engage / Korn / Labrinth / Lexer / Lexy & K-Paul / Lonely The Brave / Madmotormiquel / Major Lazer / Markus Kavka / Milliarden / Nicon / Of Mice & Men / Olson / ONE OK ROCK / Panic! At the Disco / Puscifer / Raf Camora / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Rival Sons / Rudimental / Sascha Braemer / Schlepp Geist / Schnipo Schranke / SDP / Shinedown / Sixx:A.M.The first-ever Texas Mutiny festival brought a group of 20+ rock and metal bands to play at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.
