Gigantour — the critically acclaimed package festival founded in 2005 by MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine — will be back for another installment later this year.

“[I] finalized the bands for Gigantour 2013 and have to admit, I am hella impressed,” Mustaine says in an online posting. “Details coming soon.”

In a January 2013 interview with VintageRock.com, Mustaine stated about the upcoming Gigantour: “We’ve got some stuff lined up at the end of the year with Gigantour — not only in here in the States, but also down in South America. We’ve got some really interesting lineups for that. Most people would look at the lineup and they would think, like, ‘Dave‘s not gonna tolerate your crap at all.’ Because there’s a couple of people that we have that are on the lineup — and we’re hoping for the best — but they’re notorious bad boys. But when people grow up, they kind of grow up; they don’t just grow old. And we’re hoping that the music is gonna be the most important thing so that the fans will get what they want. Because it’s undoubtedly… The people that we have, so far, as far as we know, for Gigantour, they’ve got great music. We’re really looking forward to that.”

Gigantour made its return last year for the first time since 2008. The multi-artist bill — with metal heavyweights MOTÖRHEAD, VOLBEAT and LACUNA COIL all personally picked by Mustaine — kicked off on January 26, 2012 in Camden, New Jersey and wrapped on March 3, 2012 in Austin.

Source: www.blabbermouth.net