Festival season is approaching...

New England Metal Fest is back for it's 12th year.  I've been going to this quite a few years in a row now, so you know this one I won't miss.  Not all the bands playing have been announced, but so far we got:

Friday, April 23: Mastodon, Between The Buried And Me, Baroness, Cro Mags, Earth Crisis, Death Threat, Death Before Dishonor, COA, American Me, Thick As Blood, Forfeit, XTheWarX, Grave Maker, Rose Funeral, Conducting From The Grave and Howl. Doors open at 3 p.m.

Saturday, April 24: Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Job For A Cowboy, Whitechapel, Eluveite, 1349, Impending Doom, Lecherous, Nocturne, Tony Danza, Chelsea Grin, Abacabb, Arsonists Get All The Girls, Malfice, Swashbuckle, Cattle Decapitation, Acaro, Holy Grail, Disembodied, Skeletonwitch, Cruel Hand, Reign Supreme, The Mongoloids, XTyrantX, Foundation, Soul Control, Alpha & Omega, Burning Empires, Mother Of Mercy, Gaza, Across The Sun and Monsters. Doors open at 12 noon.

Mastodon are touring with Between the Buried and Me, and Baroness so that first day isn't that great if you are going to that tour anyway. I'm pretty psyched for Saturday, though!  I highlighted the bands that are worth checking out, since most people are idiot who need my guidance.

Then in the end of May we have The Maryland Death Fest.  I really have no idea how I never went to this.  It's completely up my alley.

Friday, May 28th: Gorguts, Possessed, D.R.I., Watain, Coffins, Nazxul, Trap Them, Gride, Birds Of Prey, Malignancy, Jesus Crost, Stormcrow, Defeatist, Putrescence,

Saturday, May 29th: Autopsy, Sodom, Asphyx, Blood Duster, Incantation, Wolfbrigade, Melechesh, Haemorrage, Portal, Impaled, Sadistic Intent, Deceased, The Chasm, Verbal Abuse, Fang, Obliteration, Ingrowing, Total Fucking Destruction, Fuck The Facts, Salaco, Jucifer, Howl, The Communion

Sunday, May 30th: Obituary, Entombed, Pentagram, EYEHATEGOD, Pestilence, Malevolent Creation, Converge, Necrophobic, Naglfar, Sinister, Capitalist Casualities, Captain Cleanoff, Gorod, Rompeprop, Gridlink, Magrudergrind, Circle Of Dead Children, Massgrave, 16, Tombs, Rottenness, Surroundings, Honkey Kong.

Sunday alone is a reason to go!