Mayhem in the mosh pit: The best crowd-surfing photos from Sunday's Mayhem Festival

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By Westword Staff

July 9, 2012

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Beach? These landlocked dudes don't need no stinking beach to get their surf on, especially when they have a sea of upraised arms. What's that? Ah, yes, too timid to get that close to the action? Page down to live vicariously through the lens of our resident shutterbug and metalhead, Brandon Marshall.

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