America’s largest independent festival producer, Danny Wimmer Presents, is hosting Slay The Bellz Relay Raid, a December 10 livestream charity eventexclusively on Twitch, benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Throughout the entire event, people can donate to St. Jude’s via the link provided in the stream. Slay The Bellz will highlight many of the rock artists who have found a home on Twitch, utilizing it to grow their communities, and also coming together for a good cause.
The event will feature streamed performances from All That Remains, Dan Sugarman (Ice Nine Kills), Escape The Fate, Miss May I, Paolo Gregoletto (Trivium), The Devil Wears Prada and many more, as well as pre and post-show chats with Twitch personalities including the hosts of “That Space Zebra Show” and Thonggdelonge.
The exclusive online event will be co-streaming at twitch.tv/DWPresents and each artist’s channel, with live programming from 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM PT / 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET on December 10.
As part of the Slay The Bellz Relay Raid, “That Space Zebra Show” on DWPresents Twitch channel is currently hosting the Slay The Bellz Battle, a battle of the bandsshowdown, with the winner set to headline the December 10 stream. For more information and to enter the competition, visit twitch.tv/DWPresents.
The current lineup for the Slay The Bellz Relay Raid includes performances from All That Remains, guitar virtuoso Angel Vivaldi, Dan Sugarman (Ice Nine Kills), Dan Tompkins (Tesseract), David Frank (Bogore / Angel Asher), Lexii Lynn Frazier, Paolo Gregoletto (Trivium), Sydney Sprague andThe Devil Wears Prada, as well as appearances by Twitch personalities Beez and Thonggdelonge.
“The community of music lovers on Twitch has been nothing short of amazing,” says Angel Vivaldi. “Twitch offers a new and exciting way for fans to get to know their favorite artists and vice versa. Audiences seem to form a quick bond over sharing that experience together, which is really fantastic to witness as an artist. I’ve been blessed in my life/career and am grateful to be in a position to help support a foundation as incredible as St. Jude’s through music. I’m honored and excited to be a part of it!”
DWPresents on Twitch (twitch.tv/DWPresents) has quickly grown in popularity as a community for diehard music fans over the last several months. The channel launched in June 2021 and garnered an impressive audience of nearly 400,000 fans worldwide during its first week of DWPresents’ original programming. Overall, DWPresents has had 4.77 million live views, with 2.85 million unique viewers, 24 million minutes watched and more than 727,000 chat messages as of November 2021.
Recently, DWP’s Welcome To Rockville festival livestream on Twitch was seen by a worldwide at-home audience of 1.2 million unique viewers, who enjoyed the select performances, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes content. This groundbreaking moment marked the first-time producers Danny Wimmer Presents have livestreamed one of their festivals.
In addition, “That Space Zebra Show” on DWPresents on Twitch recently hosted the “Battle For The Big Stage: Road To Rockville Edition,” where tens of thousands of fans voted for their favorite artists in real time each week to choose one lucky band from thousands of entries. The top band–Whit3 Collr–performed on the main stage at Welcome To Rockville, Florida’s Biggest Rock Experience.
Forbes declared of DWP’s partnership with Twitch: “DWP & Twitch are paving the future for rock and metal music.”
The schedule for Slay The Bellz is as follows:
Pacific Time | Eastern Time | Artist / Creator | Twitch Name |
11:00 AM | 2:00 PM | That Space Zebra Show | dwpresents |
12:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Dan Tesseract | tesseractofficial |
12:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Dan Sugarman | dansugarman |
1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Devil Wears Prada | tdwpband |
1:30 PM | 4:30 PM | Paolo Trivium | triviumpaolo |
2:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Lexii Lynn Frazier | lexiilynn21 |
2:30 PM | 5:30 PM | David Frank Drums | davidfrankdrums |
3:00 PM | 6:00 PM | Angel Vivaldi | angelvivaldi |
3:30 PM | 6:30 PM | Sydney Sprague | sydneysprague |
4:00 PM | 7:00 PM | Thonggdelonge | thonggdelonge |
4:30 PM | 7:30 PM | All That Remains | allthatremains |
5:00 PM | 8:00 PM | That Space Zebra Show Winner | dwpresents |
5:45 PM | 8:45 PM | That Space Zebra Show | dwpresents |