Happy holidays, heshers! Download concerts from Exhumed, Pulling Teeth, Hooded Menace, Dropdead and Oak from Maryland Deathfest right here. And don’t miss out on metal warrior and scribe Kim Kelly’s killer interviews with Hail of Bullets and Funebrarum.
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Maryland Deathfest 2012 list keeps getting more ridiculous»
Autopsy, Napalm Death, Eyehategod, Godflesh, Saint Vitus, Winter, Noothgush… I can’t fucking wait!
An Abbreviated Recap of Maryland Deathfest 2011
Yet another bang-up job from Justina. Here are a few of my favorites from the full post.
Day 2
Aura Noir
Day 3
Baltimore’s Famous Chicken Suit Guy
Voivod
Day 4
Gravehill
Last Days of Humanity
I’m in the middle of moving to Jersey so I did a rush job on this photo post. More photos to follow soon.
(Source: justinavblog)
Inverted Umlaut Podcast, No. 28: Maryland Deathfest 2011 Preview
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“America’s biggest metal party of the year” is just that — Maryland Deathfest is a four-day headbanger’s haven practically under a bridge in Baltimore, Md. And while it’s wonderful for us D.C.-area metalheads to have such a well-curated event so close, fans and bands from around the grim globe come to Charm City to rage. 2011’s line-up is redonkulus: Everything from long-running legends like Neurosis and Cathedral (last tour ever, BTW) and recently reunited bands like Coroner and Dropdead to up-and-comers Miasmal, Acid Witch and Hooded Menace.
The full playlist below is just a smattering of the amazing bands playing at MDF this coming Memorial Day weekend (May 26-29), and I’m counting on being turned onto a ton of great stuff by weekend’s end. 
AURA NOIR “Schitzoid Paranoid,” Hades Rise [Peaceville]
BLOOD FREAK “Scared Stiff,” Mindscraper [Willowtip]
MIASMAL “Mesmerized,” Miasmal [Dark Descent]
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EXHORDER “Unforgiven,” The Law [Roadrunner]
CATHEDRAL “Melancholy Emperor,” Endtyme [Earache]
GHOST “Con Clavi Con Dio,” Opus Eponymous [Rise Above]
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NEUROSIS “The Doorway,” Times of Grace [Relapse]
HOODED MENACE “Terror Castle,” Never Cross the Dead [Profound Lore]
CORONER “Spiral Dream,” R.I.P. [Noise]
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ACID WITCH “Stoned to the Grave,” Stoned [Hells Headbangers]
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY “Drowning in a Daydream,” Wiseblood [Columbia]
ORANGE GOBLIN “If It Ain’t Broke, Break It,” Orange Goblin [Rise Above]
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DROPDEAD “A Nation Sleeps,” “Do You Choose Life?” “At the Cost of an Animal,” Discography [Flat Earth]
NOISEAR “Fraudulent,” “Information Highway to Hell,” “Stress Pandemic,” Subvert the Dominant Paradigm [Relapse]
NAILS “Conform,” “Scum Will Rise,” “Your God,” Unsilent Death [Southern Lord]
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DEAD CONGREGATION “Source of Fire,” Graves of the Archangels [Nuclear War Now!]
BASTARD NOISE “Manphibian,” The Red List split w/ Endless Blockade [20 Buck Spin]
MAMMOTH GRINDER “Surveilled,” split w/ Hatred Surge [Cyclopean]
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REPUGNANT “Premature Burial,” Epitome of Darkness [Soulseller]
MARDUK “Wacht Am Rhein Drumbeats of Death,” Iron Dawn [Regain]
HAIL OF BULLETS “Strategy of Attrition,” On Divine Winds [Metal Blade]
(Incidental music)
CELER, Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-all [SRA]
Maryland Deathfest is coming, so that means Maryland Deathfest: The Movie II is not too far behind. NPR Music has a terrifying live clip of Australian avant-death metal band Portal and an interview with director David Hall.
The intense theatricality of The Curator (he’s the guy in the pope hat), the in-and-out focus that threatens to get too close to the horror, the blue and red lights that feel like we’re witnessing a very wrong crime scene — visually, it’s the makings of an H.P. Lovecraft short story realized by David Lynch.
[NPR Music: First Watch: Portal At Maryland Deathfest]
[Metal Injection: First 12 Minutes Of Maryland Deathfest: The Movie]








![Maryland Deathfest is coming, so that means Maryland Deathfest: The Movie II is not too far behind. NPR Music has a terrifying live clip of Australian avant-death metal band Portal and an interview with director David Hall.
The intense theatricality of The Curator (he’s the guy in the pope hat), the in-and-out focus that threatens to get too close to the horror, the blue and red lights that feel like we’re witnessing a very wrong crime scene — visually, it’s the makings of an H.P. Lovecraft short story realized by David Lynch.
[NPR Music: First Watch: Portal At Maryland Deathfest]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll6sccXbka1qc8nfjo1_1280.jpg)