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What happened in 2012?
On January 25, 2012, an announcement revealed that the band would be playing the Mayhem Festival of 2012 with Slipknot, Slayer, Motorhead, Anthrax, The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria, Whitechapel.

Question: What was awakened?
Self-contained rewrite: What was awakened?