Shadows Woods Metal Fest 2015 Lineup Revealed

The concept of the open air heavy metal music and camping fest, so popular in Europe, seems to be a rarity in America. The organizers of the Shadow Woods Metal Fest hope to change that with the inaugural edition of the festival happening September 25th - 27th, 2015 in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.

Shadow Woods Metal Fest features lead performances from Midnight, Falls of Rauros, Occultation, Menace Ruine, Velnias, Iron Man, Anagnorisis, The Flight of Sleipnir and Stone Breath along with twenty-seven additional acts throughout the event.

The fest showcases underground black, doom, death, and noise and experimental metal bands on two alternating stages all day Friday and Saturday. Camping and workshops on topics such as runes, guitar maintenance, yoga and more will be offered and are included in the ticket price. Artists and record labels will be vending alongside several onsite food stands. The festival is BYOB and age restricted to 21+.

To keep the fest intimate, only 350 tickets will be sold, and the fest is already 1/3 sold out. Tickets are $92 (plus a 99 cent processing fee). A limited number of group cabins will also be available. The lineup is as follows:

Anagnorisis (Louisville, KY - black metal)
Anicon (New York, NY - black metal)
Ashagal (New Hope, PA - ritual folk)
Bridesmaid (Columbus, OH - instrumental doom-sludge)
Cladonia Rangiferina (VA - ritual black metal, doom, acid rock)
Dendritic Arbor (Pittsburgh, PA - black metal / powerviolence)
Destroying Angel (Philadelphia, PA - folk music for exorcisms)
Dreadlords (Philadelphia, PA - ritual black metal blues)
Dweller In The Valley (Frederick, MD - black, death, doom)
Existentium (Baltimore, MD - melodic technical death metal)
Falls of Rauros (Portland, ME - folk/atmospheric black metal)
Fin (Chicago, IL - black metal; unsigned)
Heavy Temple (Philadelphia, PA - psychedelic doom)
Hivelords (Philadelphia, PA - experimental psychedelic black doom)
Immortal Bird (Chicago, IL - black/death metal)
Iron Man (MD - doom metal/heavy rock)
Menace Ruine (Montreal, QC - avant-garde drone black metal)
Midnight (Cleveland, Ohio - black heavy metal)
Molasses Barge (Pittsburgh, PA - traditional doom metal)
Occultation (New York, NY - doom metal)
Oneirogen (New York, NY - dark, doom, drone)
Psalm Zero (New York, NY - experimental black doom)
Sentience (Woodland Park, NJ - death metal)
Slagstorm (Hagerstown, MD - prehistoric doom thrash)
Snakefeast (Baltimore, MD - jazz metal sludge)
Stone Breath (Red Lion, PA - experimental folk)
The Black Moriah (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX - Western occult black/thrash)
The Day of the Beast (Virginia Beach, VA - blackened death metal)
The Expanding Man (Baltimore, MD - solo improvisational electronic soundscapes)
The Flight of Sleipnir (Denver, CO - black metal)
The Owls Are Not What They Seem (York, PA - experimental ritual soundscapes)
Tyrant's Hand (Baltimore, MD - deathened black metal)
Unsacred (Richmond, VA - savage black metal)
Velnias (Denver, CO - blackened folk/doom metal)
Wormreich (Huntsville, AL & Nashville, TN - black metal)
ZUD (Portland, ME - bluesy outlaw black metal)