Maryland Deathfest#Related Events
{{Short description|Annual American extreme music festival}}
{{more citations needed|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox recurring event
|name = Maryland Deathfest
|logo =
|image =
|caption = 2022 line up
|location = Baltimore, Maryland, {{nowrap|United States}}
|years_active = 2003–2019; 2022; 2024-present
|founded = 2003
|founders = Ryan Taylor & Evan Harting{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bs-fe-maryland-deathfest-20190507-story.html|title=Here's what you need to know before Maryland Deathfest comes alive to shred pretty hard}}
|dates = 22–25 May 2025
|genre = Heavy metal, death metal, doom metal, thrash metal, black metal, grindcore, experimental, hardcore punk, stoner metal, progressive metal{{Cite web|url=http://www.deathfests.com/about|title = About Deathfests|date = 23 August 2012}}
|patron =
|website = {{URL|http://www.deathfests.com/}}
}}
Maryland Deathfest (often abbreviated to MDF) is an annual American extreme metal music festival founded in 2003 by Ryan Taylor and Evan Harting. The festival is held in Baltimore, Maryland during Memorial Day weekend, and it features many bands from around the world that vary from a wide range of heavy metal subgenres. It is the biggest event of its kind in North America, attracting attendees from more than 40 U.S. states and 25 countries every year. More than 800 bands from more than 40 countries have played at MDF since 2003.
The concept of the event is "To bring to the world the best and most extreme bands the underground has to offer. Never conforming to trends, or being limited by genre restrictions, we want to showcase what extreme music, both new and old, is capable of."{{Cite web|date=2012-08-23|title=About Deathfests|url=http://www.deathfests.com/about|access-date=2021-11-18|website=Deathfests|language=en}}
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MDF was cancelled in 2020 and 2021, but returned on May 26–29, 2022.{{Cite web|date=2019-06-13|title=MDF XVIII|url=http://www.deathfests.com/event/mdf-xviii|access-date=2021-11-18|website=Deathfests|language=en}}
Shortly before the 2022 festival, the organizers of MDF stated that the event would not happen in 2023. On August 2, 2022, it was announced that MDF will return for its 19th edition on May 23–26, 2024.
History and line-ups
Since 2003, MDF has featured over 750 bands from over 35 countries, many of which have made their US debut at the festival. The festival is promoted with the slogan: "America's biggest metal party of the year."
=2003=
The first installment of Maryland Deathfest was held from Friday, May 23 to Sunday, May 25 at the Thunderdome.
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Incinerate Saprogenic Severed Head Scumbitch |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Pyrexia Severed Savior Mortal Decay Foetopsy Drogheda Suture Putrid Pile Psychotogen Lust of Decay Rupture Christ Spinefed |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition Soils of Fate Abuse Commit Suicide Malamor Retch Wasteform Gored Goratory Artery Eruption |
=2004=
Maryland Death Fest 2004 was held on Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30 at the Thunderdome.
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| Saturday
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Swarm of the Lotus Fleshtized Internal Suffering Profanity |valign="top" align="center" width=356| Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus Biolich Mortal Decay Dehumanized Rompeprop Vomit Remnants |
=2005=
Maryland Deathfest 2005 was held on Saturday, May 28 and Saturday, May 29 at the House of Rock.
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Screaming Afterbirth Prophecy Guttural Secrete Kill the Client Warscars Lord Gore Wormed Gronibard |valign="top" align="center" width=356| Amoebic Dysentery XXX Maniak Splatterhouse Bodies Lay Broken Birdflesh |
=2006=
Maryland Deathfest IV was held on Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28. This was the first Maryland Deathfest to be held at Sonar, which hosted every iteration of the festival from 2006 to 2012.
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| Saturday
!Sunday |
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Embryonic Cryptopathia Catheter Yacøpsæ Cliteater Sanitys Dawn Butcher ABC |valign="top" align="center" width=356| Quills Total Fucking Destruction Mucupurulent Sayyadina Rompeprop |
=2007=
Maryland Deathfest V was held on Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27.
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Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation Nunwhore Commando 666 |valign="top" align="center" width=356| Exhale Birdflesh |
=2008=
Maryland Deathfest VI was held from Friday, May 23 to Sunday, May 25.
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Lineup |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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Afgrund Torsofuck The Day Everything Became Nothing |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Decrypt Defeatist Kalibas Waco Jesus Flesh Parade Coffins Fuck...I'm Dead |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Copremesis Infected Malignity Engorged Gruesome Stuff Relish Gadget Dead |
=2009=
Maryland Deathfest VII was held from Friday, May 22 to Sunday, May 24, and was the first incarnation of the festival to feature a second stage outside the venue.
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Main Room Stage |
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Hero Destroyed Triac Jig-Ai Sayyadina Gnostic Pigsty |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Maruta Flesh Parade Birdflesh |valign="top" align="center" width=235| The Endless Blockade Splitter Catheter |
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Outside Stage |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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|valign="top" align="center" width=235| |valign="top" align="center" width=235| |
=2010=
Maryland Deathfest VIII was held from Friday, May 28 to Sunday, May 30, with a pre-fest show taking place on Thursday, May 27.
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| colspan="4" align="center" | Main Room Stage |
| Thursday (Pre-Fest)
!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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Ex-Dementia XBRAINIAX Swarm of the Lotus Nekromantheon PLF Iron Lung Birdflesh |valign="top" align="center" width=175| The Communion Defeatist Coffins |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Sulaco Obliteration |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Honkey Kong Surroundings Rompeprop Crucifist Captain Cleanoff |
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Outside Stages |
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!Saturday !Sunday |
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|valign="top" align="center" width=235| Total Fucking Destruction |valign="top" align="center" width=235| |
=2011=
Maryland Deathfest IX was held from Thursday, May 26 to Sunday, May 29, 2011.
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!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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Extortion Flesh Parade Lack of Interest Miasmal Noisear Shitstorm Witchaven |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Pulling Teeth |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Blood Freak The Kill Cretin Mammoth Grinder Creative Waste Innumerable Forms Masakari |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Wormed Doubled Over Nightbringer Oak |
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Outside Stages |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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Funebrarum Nocturnal |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Hail of Bullets In Solitude Nunslaughter Cianide |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Citizens Arrest Malignant Tumour Nokturnel Gravehill |
=2012=
Maryland Deathfest X was held from Thursday, May 24 to Sunday, May 27, 2012.
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| colspan="4" align="center" | Main Room Stage |
| Thursday
!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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| valign="top" align="center" width=175|
Needful Things Die Pigeon Die Extermination Angel |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Nashgul |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Noothgrush The Devil's Blood Black Witchery Looking For an Answer Bloody Phoenix Infernal Stronghold |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Mortuary Drape Cough Agents of Abhorrence Coke Bust Backslider |
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Outside Stages |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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|valign="top" align="center" width=235| October 31 |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Demonical Disma |
=2013=
Maryland Deathfest XI was held from Thursday, May 23 to Sunday, May 26, 2013. It was the first incarnation to feature the Baltimore Soundstage, a separate venue that catered primarily to grindcore, punk and hardcore acts. It was also the last incarnation of the festival to be hosted at the former Sonar Compound, following its sale and rebranding as the Paparazzi Nightclub.
File:Pig Destroyer MDF 2013.jpg
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| colspan="4" align="center" | Outdoor Tent |
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!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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Deiphago Noisem |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Ingrowing Ahumado Granujo Ambassador Gun |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Vinterland Aosoth Loss Anhedonist Kommandant Asthma Castle |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Speedwolf Ascension Gride Contrastic Speedwolf |
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Outside Stages |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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Righteous Pigs |valign="top" align="center" width=235| |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Midnight Glorior Belli |
| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align="center" | Baltimore Soundstage |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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Hellshock Sete Star Sept Heartless Old Lines |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Massgrav Eddie Brock Like Rats Wake Disciples of Christ |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Citizen's Arrest Kromosom Tinner Ilsa |
=2014=
Maryland Deathfest XII was held from Thursday, May 22 to Sunday, May 25, 2014. The main stages were located at the Edison Lot in Baltimore, near the former Sonar location. It is the second incarnation to feature the Baltimore Soundstage, again catering primarily to punk, grindcore and hardcore. It is the first year to feature additional bands at Rams Head Live!, which featured mainly black, death and doom metal.
File:Candlemass MDF 2014 1.jpg
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| colspan="4" align="center" | Rams Head Live |
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!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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| valign="top" align="center" width=175|
Coffins Seven Sisters of Sleep Whitehorse |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Putrisect |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Bolzer War Master |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Mutilation Rites |
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Edison Lot |
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!Saturday !Sunday |
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Necros Christos |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Diocletian Entrails Goat Torment Orator |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Graves at Sea Pseudogod Wrathprayer |
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| colspan="3" align="center" | Baltimore Soundstage |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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Creative Waste Endorphins Lost Mesrine Pneumatic Slaughter Kill the Client |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Archagathus Birdflesh Excruciating Terror Extinction of Mankind Noothgrush Sick/Tired Stapled Shut Theories БУТ |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Death Toll 80k Enabler Internal Rot Left for Dead Maruta Shitstorm |
=2015=
Maryland Deathfest XIII was held from Thursday, May 21 to Sunday, May 24, 2015. For the second time, both main stages were located at the Edison Lot in Baltimore, near the former Sonar location. It is the third incarnation to feature the Baltimore Soundstage venue, again catering primarily to punk, grindcore and hardcore, and the second to feature additional bands at Rams Head Live!, again featuring mainly black, death and doom metal. Notably, both Triptykon and Ufomammut were scheduled to appear, after having dropped off of last year's bill. Mobb Deep's performance marked the first appearance of an act outside of heavy metal, hardcore or punk as part of the festival.
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Jex Thoth Mantar Usnea |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Drawn and Quartered Vattnet Viskar |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Adversarial |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Impetuous Ritual Knelt Rote |
| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align="center" | Edison Lot |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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Funebrarum Artificial Brain Cianide |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Serpentine Path Twilight of the Gods Fulgora Morpheus Descends |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Masacre Prosanctus Inferi |
| class="wikitable"
| colspan="4" align="center" | Baltimore Soundstage |
| Thursday
!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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Mortal Decay Mobb Deep{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/metal-guide-to-mobb-deep/|title="Fuck This Shit": A Metalhead's Guide To Mobb Deep|publisher=Noisey|date=April 24, 2015|author=Bartkewicz, Anthony}} |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation Homewrecker Nekrofilth Noisear Splatterhouse Triac |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Backslider Chainsaw to the Face Engorged Inter Arma Lycanthrophy Martyrdöd P.L.F |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Coke Bust Grin and Bear It Mother Brain Pizzahifive Spazztic Blurr Water Torture |
= 2016 =
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| colspan="4" align="center" | Rams Head Live |
| Thursday
!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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| valign="top" align="center" width=175|
The Offering |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Svarttjern |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Auroch |valign="top" align="center" width=175| Mitochondrion Mystifier |
| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" align="center" | Edison Lot |
| Friday
!Saturday !Sunday |
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| valign="top" align="center" width=235|
Gruesome |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Demonical Gruesome |valign="top" align="center" width=235| Interment Shed the Skin |
| class="wikitable"
| colspan="4" align="center" width=235 |Baltimore Soundstage |
| Thursday
!Friday !Saturday !Sunday |
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| valign="top" align="center" width="175" |
Waco Jesus Dehumanized Putrid Pile | valign="top" align="center" width="175" | Ground Hemdale Yacopsae | valign="top" align="center" width="175" | Priapus Severed Head of State | valign="top" align="center" width="175" | Test |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.deathfests.com}}
- http://www.deathfests.com/
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Category:Heavy metal festivals in the United States
Category:Music festivals in Maryland
Category:Music festivals established in 2003