Maryland Deathfest

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Maryland Deathfest
View from a stage (2015)
View from a stage (2015)
General information
place Baltimore (United States)
genre Extreme metal , hardcore
Period 2003 - today
Website www.deathfests.com

The Maryland Deathfest is a music festival that has been held annually in Baltimore , USA since 2003 . The musical focus is on international bands of various varieties of the genres Extreme Metal (primarily Death Metal and Black Metal ) and Hardcore (primarily Grindcore ).

history

The festival was first organized in 2003 by Evan Harting and Ryan Taylor. Both knew each other from high school, worked for the same company and together went to the Ohio Deathfest, a small festival in Lorain , 630 km away , which took place over several years around the turn of the millennium until 2005. Visiting this festival was the decisive factor for Harting and Taylor to organize a similar festival in Baltimore. Maryland Deathfest takes place the weekend before Memorial Day each year , the last weekend in May. A rule of the festival operators is that a band may appear a maximum of three times at the Deathfest in order to offer enough performance opportunities for new bands of the genres presented. A few exceptions to this rule are made, for example the Baltimore-based band Misery Index has performed six times so far. For the first two years, the Thunderdome Club in Baltimore hosted the festival. After a year at the House of Rock music club, the festival found a home from 2006 to 2013 in and in front of Club Sonar. In 2006, bands from German-speaking countries played at the Maryland Deathfest for the first time, namely Pungent Stench from Austria and “Hamburg's fastest band” Yacøpsæ , at the Maryland Deathfest. In 2008 the festival was extended to three days. In 2009 it got so big that a second stage was installed in front of the club for the event. In 2010 it was extended to four days. From 2013, stages belonging to the festival, but spatially separated, were installed in Baltimore, which has given the festival a decentralized character ever since. In 2014 a fourth stage was opened in the Baltimore bar The Sidebar, which raised the number of bands to over 100. In 2017 the festival was reduced to two stages.

Between 2010 and 2013 three documentaries lasting several hours were produced with live recordings, impressions from the festival and interviews with participating bands, which were distributed as DVDs. In 2014 the documentary Welcome to Deathfest by filmmakers Thomas Grahsler and Alicia Lozano was released. The film was funded in part by a crowdfunding campaign and was shown at the Maryland Film Festival the year it was released. In 2015 there was a little controversy when the organizers invited musicians outside of the extreme metal spectrum for the first time with the rap duo Mobb Deep .

From 2015 the concert organizers exported their concept. Since 2015 the California Deathfest has been held annually in Oakland, California, from 2016 to 2018 the Netherlands Deathfest in Tilburg , the Netherlands , since 2018 the Quebec Deathfest in Montreal, Canada, and the Scandinavian Deathfest in Stockholm in 2019 . In 2017, the organizers established a second festival in Baltimore, the Days of Darkness, which takes place in the fall and offers more classic metal and less extreme metal and hardcore bands.

Harting and Taylor are still the responsible (and now full-time) organizers of the festival, which according to Newsweek had developed into the most important independent festival for extreme music by 2017 . The Decibel magazine called the Maryland Death Fest as "perhaps the most revered of all metal festivals", which for many a sort of annual pilgrimage performing.

Line up

year date Days Stages Bands Visitors Headliners
2003 May 23-25, 2003 3 days 1 stage 37 bands Suffocation
Aborted , Abuse, Artery Eruption, Biolich, Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus, Brodequin , Cinerary, Circle of Dead Children, Commit Suicide, Debodified, Devourment , Dislimb, Drogheda, Foetopsy, Gored, Incinerate, Internal Bleeding , Lehavoth , Leng Tch 'e , Leukorrhea, Lust of Decay, Malignancy, Mortal Decay , Necrophagist , Psychotogen, Putrid Pile, Pyrexia , Retch, Rupture Christ, Scumbitch, Severed Head, Sikfuk, Skinless , Soils of Fate, Spawn of Possession , Spinefed, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition , Suffocation , Suture, Wasteform
2004 May 29-30, 2004 2 days 1 stage 28 bands Repulsion , macabre
Arsis , Bile, Brodequin, Circle of Dead Children, Exhumed , Fleshtized, Inhume , Internal Suffering , Ion Dissonance , Leng Tch'e, Macabre , Malignancy, Man Must Die , Misery Index , Mortal Decay, Neuraxis , Phobia , Pig Destroyer , Profanity , Repulsion , Rompeprop, Rotten Sound , Swarm of the Lotus, The Red Chord , Vomit Remnants
2005 May 28-29, 2005 2 days 1 stage 28 bands Cryptopsy , immolation
Aborted , Abscess , Amoebic Dysentery, Birdflesh, Bodies Lay Broken, Capharnaum , Cryptopsy , Despised Icon , General Surgery , Ghoul, Gronibard, Immolation , Impaled , Ion Dissonance, Kill the Client, Leng Tch'e, Lord Gore, Misery Index, Pig Destroyer, Prophecy, Putrescence, Regurgigate, Rotten Sound, Screaming Afterbirth, Splatterhouse, Warscars, Wormed, XXX Maniak
2006 May 27-28, 2006 2 days 1 stage 30 bands Dismember , Vital Remains
Alarum , Anata , Butcher ABC, Catheter, Decapitation , Cenotaph , Cliteater , Demilich , Disfear , Dismember , Elmbalmer, Electro Quarterstaff, Gorod (as Gorgasm) Haemorrhage , Machetazo, Magrudergrind , Mesrine, Mucupurulent, Municipal Waste , Necrophagist, Pungent Stench , Rompeprop, Sanitys Dawn , Sayyadina, Severe Torture , Skinless, Total Fucking Destruction, Unholy Grave , Vital Remains , Yacøpsæ
2007 May 26-27, 2007 2 days 1 stage 28 bands Cyclone , Brutal Truth
Birdflesh, Brutal Truth , Cock and Ball Torture , Cripple Bastards , Dead Infection , Exhale , Extreme Noise Terror , Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation, Foetopsy, Fuck the Facts , General Surgery, Ghoul, Gorod, GUT, Jigsaw Terror, Malevolent Creation , Misery Index, Nunwhore Commando 666, Odious Mortem , Putrescence, Regurgigate, Retaliation, Rotten Sound, Saprogenic, Skitsystem , The Rotted (as Gorerotted), Vomitory , Zyklon
year date Days Stages Bands Visitors Headliners
2008 May 23-25, 2008 3 days 1 stage 37 bands Grave , Anaal Nathrakh , Nuclear Assault
Afgrund , Anaal Nathrakh , Behold… The Arctopus, Blood Duster , Circle of Dead Children, Coffins, Copremesis, Decrypt, Defeated Sanity , Defeatist, Disfear, Dying Fetus , Engorged, Flesh Parade, Fuck I'm Dead, Gadget, Ghoul, Grave , Gruesome Stuff Relish, Hellnation, Impaled, Infected Malignity, Ingrowing, Japanese Combat Radio Play, Kalibas, Keitzer , Macabre, Martyr , Monstrosity , Nuclear Assault , Phobia, Skarp , Squash Bowels, The Day Everything Became Nothing, Torsofuk, Trap Them , Waco Jesus
2009 May 22-24, 2009 3 days 2 stages 54 bands 6000 Asphyx , Bolt Thrower , Pestilence
Abscess, Absu , Agenda of Swine, Antigama , Asphyx , Atheist , Aura Noir , Birdflesh, Bolt Thrower (Saturday and Sunday), Brutal Truth, Car Bomb , Catheter, Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage , Crowpath, Despise You, Deströyer 666 , Devourment , Drugs of Faith, Flesh Parade, General Surgery, Ghoul, Grief, Hail of Bullets , Hero Destroyed, Immolation, Jig-Ai , Kill the Client, Lair of the Minotaur, Magrudergrind, Man Must Die, Mayhem , Misery Index, Napalm Death , Pestilence , Phobia, Pig Destroyer, Pigsty, Pretty Little Flowers, Rotten Sound, Sigh , Sayyadina, Splitter, The Endless Blockade, The Red Chord , Trap Them, Triac, Unearthly Trance , Venomous Concept
2010 May 27-30, 2010 4 days 2 stages 66 bands Gorguts , Autopsy , Sodom
! TOOH!, Asphyx, Autopsy , Birdflesh, Birds of Prey, Black Breath , Blood Duster, Capitalist Casualties, Captain Cleanoff , Coffins, Converge , Crucifist, Deceased, Defeatist, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles , Entombed , Ex-Dementia, Eyehategod , Fang, Fuck the Facts, From Ashes Rise, General Surgery, Gorguts, Gorod, Gride, Gridlink, Honkey Kong, Howl, Impaled, Incantation , Ingrowing, Iron Lung, Jesus Crost, Jucifer , Krallice , Magrudergrind, Malignancy, Mass Grave, Melechesh , Nazxul, Necrophobic , Nekromantheon , Nirvana 2002, Obituary , Obliteration , Pentagram , Pestilence, PLF, Portal, Possessed , Putrescence, Repulsion , Rompeprop, Rottenness, Sadistic Intent , Sulaco, Surroundings, Swarm of the Lotus, The Chasm, The Communion, Tombs , Total Fucking Destruction, Verbal Abuse , Watain , Wolfbrigade , Xbrainiax
2011 May 26-29, 2011 4 days 2 stages 62 bands Neurosis , Coroner , Voivod
Acid Witch, Aura Noir, Avulsed , Bad Acid Trip, Bastard Noise, Blood Freak, Buzzov * en, Cathedral, Cianide, Citizens Arrest, Coroner, Corrosion of Conformity, Creative Waste, Cretin, Cripple Bastards, DOOM, Dead Congregation, Defeated Sanity , Doubled Over, Dropdead, Exhorder, Exhumed, Extortion, Flesh Parade, Funebrarum, Ghost, Gravehill, Hail of Bullets, Hooded Menace, Impaled Nazarene, In Solitude, Innumerable Forms, Inquisition, Kylesa, Lack of Interest, Last Days of Humanity, Machetazo, Malignant Tumour, Mammoth Grinder, Marduk, Masakari, Miasmal, Nails, Neurosis, Nightbringer, Nocturnal, Noisear, Nokturnel, Nuclear Assault, Nunslaughter, Oak, Orange Goblin, Pulling Teeth, Repugnant, Shitstorm, Skinless, The Impalers, The Kill , Tragedy, Voivod, Witchaven, Wormed
2012 May 24-27, 2012 4 days 2 stages 57 bands Godflesh , Morbid Angel , Electric Wizard
Absu, Agalloch , Agents of Abhorrence, Anvil , Archgoat , Artillery, Autopsy, Backslider, Bethelehem, Black Witchery, Bloody Phoenix, Brujeria, Castevet, Church of Misery , Coke Bust, Cough, Demigod, Demonical, Deviated Instinct, Die Pigeon Die, Disma, Dragged into Sunlight, Electric Wizard, Extermination Angel, Eyehategod, Ghoul, Godflesh, Haemorrhage, Hellbastard, Horna, Infernal Stronghold, Looking for an Answer, Macabre, Morbid Angel, Morbid Saint, Morgoth, Mortuary Drape, Napalm Death, Nashgul, Nasum, Nausea, Needful Things, Negura Bunget, Noothgrush, October 31, Pentagram (Chile), Rorschach, Rwake, Saint Vitus, Sargeist, Setherial, Suffocation, The Devil's Blood, Today is the Day, Tsjuder, Ulcerate, Unsane
year date Days Stages Bands Visitors Headliners
2013 May 23-26, 2013 4 days 3 stages 70 bands Venom , Carcass
Abigail , Ahumado Granujo , Ambassador Gun, Anhedonist, Antaeus , Aosoth, Asthma Castle, Benediction , Bolt Thrower, Broken Hope, Carcass, Citizens Arrest, Cobalt, Contrastic, Converge, Convulse, Cruciamentum, Deiphago, Disciples of Christ, Down, Eddie Brock , Evoken, Full of Hell , Glorior Belli, Gride, Heartless, Hellshock, Ihsahn, Ilsa, Infest, Ingrowing, Iniquity, Integrity, Iron Lung, Kommandant, Krömosom, Like Rats, Loss, Magrudergrind, Manilla Road, Massgrav, Melvins, Midnight , Old Lines, Pagan Altar, Pallbearer, Pelican, Pentagram, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, Revenge, Righteous Pigs, Ringworm, Rotten Sound, Sacred Reich, Sete Star Sept, Sleep, Speedwolf, Speedwolf, Terveet Kädet, The Obsessed, Tinner, Tragedy , Venom, Vinterland, Vitamin X, Wake, Weedeater, Weekend Nachos
2014 May 22-25, 2014 4 days 5 stages 102 bands Candlemass , My Dying Bride
ACxDC, Aeternus , Agalloch, Archagathus, Ashencult, Asphyx, At the Gates , Bastard Sapling, Birdflesh, Black Breath, Bolzer, Bongripper , Cancer, Candlemass, Capitalist Casualties, Casket, Castevet, Cemetery Piss, Coffins, Creative Waste, Cripple Bastards, Crowbar, Crypter, Dark Angel, Death Toll 80k, Diocletian, Diocletian, Dopecopper, Dropdead, Enabler, Endorphins Lost, Enthroned, Entrails, Excruciating Terror, Extinction of Mankind, Final Conflict, Goat Torment, God Macabre, Gorguts, Graves at Sea, Hooded Menace, Immolation, Impaled, Incantation, Inquisition, Internal Rot, Inverted Trifixion, Kill the Client, Left for Dead, Machetazo, Maruta, Mesrine, Mgla, Misery Index, Monger, Mutilation Rites, My Dying Bride, Necros Christos, Nightbitch, Nocturnus AD, Noothgrush, Old Lines, Orator, Pneumatic Slaughter, Pneumatic Slaughter, Pseudogod, Putrisect, Ratos de Porao, Sacrifice, Sarke, Seven Sisters of Sleep, Shitstorm, Sick / Tired, Skelptarsis, Soft Dov, Soilent Green, Sourvein, Stapled Shut, Symbolic, Sólstafir, Taake, Tankard, The Church Of Pungent Stench, The Pilgrim, The Ruins of Beverast, Theories , Tomb Stalker, Torche, Ulcerate, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Unholy Grave, Unleashed , Victims, Visceral Disgorge, War Master, Whitehorse, Windhand, Wounded Giant, Wrathprayer, Yautja, ???
2015 May 21-24, 2015 4 days 4 stages 89 bands 24,000 Amorphis , Sodom , Razor , Bloodbath , Arcturus
Adversarial, Aeternus, Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Amorphis , Anaal Nathrakh, Antigama, Arcturus, Artificial Brain, Aura Noir, Backslider, Blood Red Throne, Bloodbath, Bulldozer, Cephalic Carnage, Chainsaw to the Face, Cianide, Coke Bust, Conan, Corrupt Leaders, Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult, Demilich, Demoncy, Devourment, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Drawn and Quartered, Early Graves, Einherjer, Engorged, Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation, Fulgora, Full of Hell, Funebrarum, Ghoul, Gnaw Their Tongues, Grin and Bear It, Homewrecker, Impetuous Ritual, Inter Arma, Internal Bleeding, Iron Man, Jex Thoth, Knelt Rote, Lock Up, Lycanthrophy, Mantar, Martyrdöd, Masacre, Master, Melt Banana, Mobb Deep, Morpheus Descends, Mortal Decay, Mother Brain, Napalm Death , Nekrofilth, Neurosis, Noisear, Noxa, Obituary, Origin, PLF, Pizzahifive, Portal, Primitive Man , Primordial, Prosanctus Inferi, Razor, Serpentine Path, Skepticism, Skinless, Solstice, Spazztic Blurr, Splatterhouse, Suffocation, Thanti faxath, Tombs, Triac, Triptykon, Tsjuder, Twilight of the Gods, Ufomammut, Usnea, Vallenfyre, Vattnet Viskar, Vulcano, Water Torture, Winter, Wolfbrigade, YOB
2016 May 26-29, 2016 4 days 4 stages 91 bands 24,000 Testament , Venom , Mayhem
Angelcorpse , Atrophy, Auroch, Bongripper, Bongzilla, BruceXCampbell, Buzzov * en, Centinex, Claudio Simonetti's Goblin, Craft, Crypt Sermon, DOOM, Dead Church, Dehumanized, Demolition Hammer, Demonic Christ, Demonical, Denouncement Pyre, Deranged, Desaster, Despise You, Disgorge, Dragged into Sunlight, Earth, Excel, Exciter, General Surgery, Gets Worse, Grave Miasma, Ground, Gruesome, Gruesome, Haemorrhage, Hail of Bullets, Hellbringer, Mantelale, Hirax, Horrendous, Impaled Nazarene, Incantation, Infest, Interment, Jungle Rot, Khold, Magrudergrind, Malignant Tumor, Mayhem, Mitochondrion, Mystifier, Negative Approach, Nocturnal Graves, November's Doom, Nuclear Assault, Paradise Lost, Phobocosm, Priapus, Putrescence, Putrid Pile, Repulsion, Ringworm, Rotten Sound, Samael , Sanitys Dawn, Satan, Saturnalia Temple, Secrets of the Moon, Severe Torture, Severed Head of State, Shed the Skin, Sick Fix, Sick of Stupidity, Six Brew Bantha, Skullshitter, Svarttjern, Test, Testament, The Afternoon Gen tlemen, The Haunted, The Offering, Tragedy, Tulus, Venom, Visceral Disgorge, Waco Jesus, Weedeater, Whoresnation, Wombbath, Wormed, Wormed, Yacopsae, Zhrine
2017 May 25-28, 2017 4 days 2 stages 72 bands Candlemass , Autopsy , Morbid Angel , Tiamat
Acheron, Acid King , Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Akercocke, Autopsy, Behexen, Birdflesh, Brodequin, Candlemass, Captain Cleanoff, Chepang, Cognitive, Conan, Crud, Cryptopsy, Decrepit Birth, Die Choking, Disparo, Dopethrone, Embalmer, Encoffination., Ex-Dementia , Exhumed, Exumer, Father Befouled, Fiend, Fissure, Flash Out, Fucking Invincible, Genocide Pact, Goolagoon, Goratory, Gorgasm, GosT, Grave, In the Woods ..., Insect Warfare, Iron Lung, Junior Bruce, Kerasphorus, Macabre, Malignancy , Meth Leppard, Morbid Angel, Morbid Saint, Mother Brain, Myxoma, Necropsy, Night Raids, Nightbringer, Noothgrush, Nordjevel, Occultist, October Tide, Oranssi Pazuzu, Organ Dealer, PLF, Root, Samothrace, Sargeist, Siege, Skeletal Remains, Stormtroopers of Beer, SubRosa, Suppression, Terrorizer, Tiamat, Torture Rack, UADA, Usurper, UxDxSx, Vader, War Master
year date Days Stages Bands Visitors Headliners
2018 May 24-27, 2018 4 days 2 stages 73 bands Satyricon , Suffocation , Godflesh
- (16) -, Abhomine, Arkhon Infaustus , Ascended Dead, Bandit, Bestial Evil, Blood Incantation, Blurring, Bolzer, Bound by the Grave, Broken Hope, Cognizant, Coven, Cripple Bastards, Defeated Sanity, Destroyed in Seconds, Dodheimsgard, Durian, Dusk, Enemy Soil, Evoken, Eyehategod, Fluoride, Future Terror, Gasp, Gateway Hell, God Dethroned, Godflesh, Gonkulator, Gutted, Helmet, Horrible Earth, Incantation, Integrity, Khemmis , Lord Gore, Mantar, Master's Hammer, Misery Index, Morta Skuld, Mortal Decay, Neolithic, Opera IX, Pavel Chekov, Perdition Temple, Pessimist, Petrification, Phrenelith, Pig Destroyer, Plagues, Prong, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pure Hiss, Reeking Cross, Ritual Necromancy, Sadistic Intent, Satyricon, Sinister , Sinmara, Stimulant, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, Suffering Hour, Suffocation, Test, Thantifaxath, The Ruins of Beverast, The True Mortem, Today is the Day, Torn the Fuck Apart, Ufomammut, Violation Wound , Viscera Infest, Wormrot
2019 May 23-26, 2019 4 days 2 stages 73 bands Immolation , Vomitory , Mortician
Abyssal, Accused AD, Ampallang Infection, Anaal Nathrakh, Asylum, Benediction, Beton, Blood , Borknagar , Brutality , Carnivore AD , Church of Misery, Churchburn, Coffin Dust, Come to Grief, Daeva, Dead in the Manger, Deicide , Deletere, Devourment, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Disassociate, Disharmonic Orchestra , Dropdead, Embludgeonment, Endorphins Lost, Fleshcrawl , Full of Hell, Grotesque Organ Defilement, Ground, Guttural Secrete, Hard Charger, Hell Bent, Hummingbird of Death, Indian , Immolation, Inhumation, Lich King , Lowlife, Majestic Downfall, Malignancy, Merrimack, Messiah , Mortician, Mortuary, Naglfar , Neckbeard Deathcamp, Obliteration, Ordeals, Outre-Tombe, Pestilence, Primitive Man, Regurgitation, Revenge, Rippikoulo, Scour, Sorrower, Spectral Voice, Squash Bowels , Sulaco, Tchornobog, The Chasm, Theories, Tomb Mold, Tormentor , Total Fucking Destruction, True Black Dawn, Unleashed, Vanum, Vault Dweller, Voivod, Vomitory, Zemial

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. DCHeavyMetal.com: Interview with Evan Harting of Maryland Death Fest. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  2. Sam Sessa: Maryland Deathfest returns to Sonar . In: The Baltimore Sun . May 26, 2011 ( baltimoresun.com ).
  3. a b DecibelMagazine.com: Crowdfunding Campaign Launched For 'Welcome To Death Fest Documentary'. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  4. ^ Maryland Deathfest 2015: Classic Thrash, Norwegian Black Metal, and One Hell of a Bangover. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  5. Exclaim.ca: Maryland Death Fest Expands with Quebec Festival. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  6. Metal.de: Scandinavia Deathfest - Dismember play in the original line-up. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
  7. a b c Newsweek.com: Tired of Festival Culture? 'Welcome to Deathfest' is a Love Letter to America's DIY Black Metal Paradise. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  8. Blabbermouth.net: Suffocation, Pyrexia, Skinless Confirmed For Maryland Death Fest 2003. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  9. Last.fm: Maryland Deathfest 2004. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  10. Blabbermouth.net: Impaled, Capharnaum Confirmed For Maryland Death Fest (sic) 2005. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  11. Setlist.fm: Maryland Deathfest IV Setlists. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  12. Deathfests.com: MDF 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  13. Deathfests.com: MDF 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  14. Setlist: fm: Maryland Deathfest VII Setlists. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  15. Blabbermouth.net: Report: Year After Year, Maryland Deathfest Only Gets Stronger. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  16. Deathfests.com: MDF 2010. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  17. Deathfests.com: MDF 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  18. Deathfests.com: MDF 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  19. Setlist: fm: Maryland Deathfest XI Setlists. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  20. Deathfests.com: MDF 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  21. Deathfests.com: MDF 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  22. Deathfests.com: MDF 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  23. Deathfests.com: MDF 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  24. Deathfests.com: MDF 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  25. Deathfests.com: MDF 2019. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .