Oct 092012
 

About a half hour ago the organizers of MARYLAND DEATHFEST announced the final line-up for MDF XI, the 2013 edition of the best extreme fest in these United States — except for one band whose name is yet to come.

This line-up is stunning.  I don’t really have anything more to say about it.  Feast your eyes on the new additions and the full line-up, plus some explanatory notes and ticket info from MDF at the end:

DOWN
(the) MELVINS
THE OBSESSED
ASCENSION (Germany) – Exclusive US appearance!
UFOMAMMUT (Italy)
COBALT
DEIPHAGO (Philippines/Costa Rica)
EVOKEN
NECROPSY

Confirmed for Baltimore Soundstage (no barricade shows):

CITIZENS ARREST
CONVERGE
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
EDDIE BROCK
FEASTEM (Finland)
FULL OF HELL
HEARTLESS
HELLSHOCK
ILSA
INFEST – (Exclusive east coast appearance)
IRON LUNG
KROMOSOM (Australia)
LIKE RATS
MAGRUDERGRIND
MASSGRAV (Sweden)
OLD LINES
ROTTEN SOUND (Finland)
SETE STAR SEPT (Japan)
TINNER (Finland)
VITAMIN X (Netherlands)
WAKE
WEEKEND NACHOS

Full list of confirmed bands:

@ Former Sonar compound:

!T.O.O.H.! (Czech Republic)
ABIGAIL (Japan)
AHUMADO GRANUJO (Czech Republic)
AMBASSADOR GUN
ANHEDONIST
ANTAEUS (France)
AOSOTH (France)
ASCENSION (Germany)
ASTHMA CASTLE
BENEDICTION (UK)
BOLT THROWER (UK)
BROKEN HOPE
CARCASS (UK)
CARPATHIAN FOREST (Norway)
COBALT
CONVULSE (Finland)
CRUCIAMENTUM (UK)
DEIPHAGO (Philippines/Costa Rica)
DOWN
EVOKEN
EXODUS
GLORIOR BELLI (France)
GRIDE (Czech Republic)
IHSAHN (Norway)
INGROWING (Czech Republic)
INIQUITY (Denmark)
INTEGRITY
KOMMANDANT
LOSS
MANILLA ROAD
(the) MELVINS
MIDNIGHT
MORGION
NECROPSY
THE OBSESSED
PAGAN ALTAR (UK)
PELICAN
PENTAGRAM
PIG DESTROYER
REPULSION
REVENGE (Canada)
RIGHTEOUS PIGS
SLEEP
SPEEDWOLF
UFOMAMMUT (Italy)
VENOM (UK)
VINTERLAND (Sweden)
WEEDEATER

@ Baltimore Soundstage:

CITIZENS ARREST
CONVERGE
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
EDDIE BROCK
FEASTEM (Finland)
FULL OF HELL
HEARTLESS
HELLSHOCK
ILSA
INFEST
IRON LUNG
KROMOSOM (Australia)
LIKE RATS
MAGRUDERGRIND
OLD LINES
ROTTEN SOUND (Finland)
SETE STAR SEPT (Japan)
TINNER (Finland)
VITAMIN X (Netherlands)
WAKE
WEEKEND NACHOS

Further notes from MDF that appeared on Facebook later in the day after the final line-up was posted:

“As mentioned previously, accidentally left off of the list posted earlier is Massgrav (Sweden), who will be playing at Soundstage.

“We’d also like to make it clear that the Ascension playing is the black metal band, the Necropsy playing is the local band from Baltimore and NOT the Finnish band, and the Infest playing is NOT from Poland. As always, if there is no country of origin listed next to the band, you can assume they are from the US.

“Next Monday [Oct 15], multi-day passes and Thursday only tickets will be available to purchase at 12 pm (ET). There will be multi-day pass options that cover only bands playing at the former Sonar, and there will also be an option that covers all bands on all days at both venues. As mentioned previously, Soundstage will only be in use from Friday-Sunday.

“We will announce who is playing the Thursday show on the 15th when tickets go on sale. We will have a list of bands for the other days complete before the end of October, which is when single day tickets for those days will go on sale.

MDF XI
May 23-26, 2013”

  17 Responses to “MARYLAND DEATHFEST ANNOUNCES FINAL 2013 LINE-UP”

  1. Road trip?

  2. Deiphago, Evoken and Ascension (the black metal one if anyones wondering) are all awesome..Cobalts okay…not really impressed with the rest. Still looks like an awesome lineup overall (and Ilsa’s always cool)

  3. I’ll be there. this lineup is amazing.

  4. Hey wait…does this mean that the dudes in Cobalt will be playing together for the first time in, like, ever? By blind luck I happened to meet Erik Wunder. He works in a bar in Brooklyn called Lucky 13, a very bitchin place with a fucked up jukebox and GoGo dancers who grind to death metal. I had no Idea who he actually was until we started talking about music. Anyways, he told me that Sergeant McSorley was on the trail and pretty much decided he was gonna be a lifer. He said he wasn’t sure when they might be making music together again. This is already a motherfucker of a lineup, but that just might be enough incentive for me to finally experience an MDF, provided The Man lets me take some time off.

    • Cool that you got to chew the fat with Erik Wunder. It sure looks like Cobalt will be together to do this. Not sure how the Sergeant is making it happen. Also, I just saw that Erik’s other band, Man’s Gin, have finished recording their next album (due for release in November) and that Cobalt is working on their next one. Might be some new Cobalt music by MDF time.

  5. Infest!!!!!??????? As in the Where’s the fuckin’ Unitttttyyyyyy!!!!!!!??????? Infest? The hardcore/powervio-lence Infest.?!

  6. I will not begin passing around a cup to collect donations.

    The money will go to a little, armless, blind girl suffering from cancer of the imaginary glands. All of it. 100%. I promise that none of it will go to buying Phro a plane ticket to Maryland. Pffff! Who’d wanna go to Maryland anyway? Too damn many Maries.

  7. Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Exodus (and on a good day, Carpathian Forest) are enough to get me to travel across the world to check out a metal fest…let alone just hopping my across the Canadian border to trip down to Maryland. This is great news indeed. Let’s just hope I can get my passport in time.

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