As a warm-up for their upcoming dates on the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival 2011, MACHINE HEAD have announced a show with special guests DIMENSION 13 and openers KRYTERIUM, on July 7th at Knitting Factory Concert House in Reno, NV.

Ticketfly.com is selling GA tickets for $20, also available are reserved box seats for $35.

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival's 2011 line-up also includes DISTURBED, GODSMACK, MEGADETH, IN FLAMES, TRIVIUM, and many more of today’s most electrifying artists.

The tour will make a 26 date trek across the country beginning on July 9th at the San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino, California.

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Tour dates:

July

9 - San Manuel Amphitheater - San Bernardino, CA
10 - Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA
12 - White River Amphitheatre - Auburn, WA
13 - Idaho Center Amphitheater - Nampa, ID
15 - Desert Sky Pavilion - Phoenix, AZ
16 - Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque Presents The Pavilion - Albuquerque, NM
17 - Comfort Dental Amphitheater - Englewood, CO
19 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Maryland Heights, MO
20 - Riverbend Music Center - Cincinnati, OH
22 - Comcast Center - Mansfield, MA
23 - Parc Jean-Drapeau - (Heavy MTL) - Montreal, QC
24 - Comcast Theater - Hartford, CT
27 - PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ
29 - First Niagara Pavilion - Burgettstown, PA
30 - Jiffy Lube Live - Bristow, VA
31 - Susquehanna Bank Center - Camden, NJ

August

2 - Virginia Beach Amphitheater - Virginia Beach, VA
3 - Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek - Raleigh, NC
5 - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre - Tinley Park, IL
6 - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Clarkston, MI
7 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Noblesville, IN
9 - Zoo Amphitheatre - Oklahoma City, OK
10 – Gexa Energy Pavilion - Dallas, TX
12 - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood - Atlanta, GA
13 - 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre - Tampa, FL
14 - Cruzan Amphitheatre - West Palm Beach, FL

Metal Hammer are set to release Machine Head’s new album, Unto The Locust, on September 26th in the UK with a special edition fan-pack.

Complete with 132–page special issue complete with exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the making of the new album, extensive interviews with every member, never-before-seen historic shots from the band’s personal collections, a guide to their custom rigs, and a diary of their massive Mayhem tour happening this summer, this is the ultimate companion to the long-awaited follow-up to The Blackening, Metal Hammer’s album of the decade. And that’s not all. This exclusive fanpack also includes a 100% official patch, sticker sheet and poster. This is your chance to be part of Machine Head history!

“This is gonna be fucking awesome! It’s ridiculous,” says Robb Flynn of the venture. “I can’t believe that there’s going to be a magazine about us with a special edition of our new album. It’s pretty mindblowing, really. It’s something really fuckin’ cool for the fans, and it’s something incredible for us too. We’re all really stoked on this new record and we can’t wait for everyone to hear what we’ve been doing in the studio. Releasing it this way on newsstands (not just record stores) makes it way cooler! You guys know how to make magazines, man! People over here in the US need to look at the UK and how you make magazines.

“You guys make people care about this stuff and you’re real music fans. Get your niche and fuckin’ ride it! People want cool shit and cool interviews. We’re pumped about the whole idea”

Pre-order this special edition here.

In the video footage below, Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel talks about the work in progress for the band's new album, Unto The Locust, due in September:

Unto The Locust is due out September 27th via Roadrunner Records. The album is currently being recorded at JingleTown Studios in Oakland, with frontman Robb Flynn producing.

The first single 'Locust' is on sale now via Amazon. Click on icon below to hear a snippet of the song and to order:

Musically, the song is the essence of what Machine Head have been doing for nearly two decades.

"It feels like the culmination of what we've been doing for the last 17 years: power grooves, patented Machine Head harmonics, crushing guitars and dark melodies, but taken to a new level," Flynn said. "It's a natural progression from The Blackening, but different than anything on that record. In the past, when we debuted a new song, it was usually the fastest, thrashiest tune. This time we wanted to go with something just straight-up heavy."

Machine Head will embark on a European headlining tour this fall, dubbed The Eighth Plague Tour. Support on the trek will come from BRING ME THE HORIZON, DEVILDRIVER and DARKEST HOUR.

"This will no doubt be the heaviest show you're going to see this year," states Robb Flynn. "A lot of the greatest shows of our last touring cycle were in Europe and the U.K., so the prospect of this lineup combined with these crowds has us extremely stoked to get out there and tear it up! New material, great venues, killer fans... we absolutely cannot wait!"

Confirmed dates include:

November

2 - Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene
3 - Stockholm, Sweden - Arenan
5 - Tampere, Finland - Sorsapuistosali
6 - Helsinki, Finland - The Circus
8 - Fredriksberg, Denmark - KB Hallen
9 - Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit 36
10 - Dresden, Germany - Alter Schlachthof
24 - Neu-Isenburg, Germany - Hugenottenhalle
25 - Munich, Germany - Kesselhaus
26 - Ludwigsburg, Germany - Arena
30 - Oberhausen, Germany - Turbinenhalle

December

3 - London, UK - Wembley Arena
4 - Birmingham, UK - National Indoor Arena
5 - Glasgow, UK - Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC)
6 - Manchester, UK - Central

Tickets at this location.