More Bands Confirmed For New England Hardcore And Metal Festival

Band Photo: Behemoth (?)

Polish and Dutch death metal bands BEHEMOTH and GOD DETHRONED have been added to the lineup of the ninth annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, presented by ESP Guitars & Basses and Krank Amps on Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28.

Additional confirmations include 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, DESPISED ICON, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, DAATH, LIGEIA, IMPIOUS, 3, and EPICUREAN.

The festival will join forces with Metal Blade this year to celebrate the label’s 25th anniversary. The main and side stages will both exclusively feature Metal Blade bands on Saturday, topped off by a once-in-lifetime performance that will bring together musicians from Metal Blade’s stellar roster of bands.

Bands confirmed for Friday are:

Dimmu Borgir
Bury Your Dead
Devil Driver
Satyricon
Walls of Jericho
Kataklysm
Kylesa
Skinless
The Devil Wears Prada
All Shall Perish
100 Demons
Nora
The Human Abstract
Still Remains
Thy Will Be Done
Nachtmystium
December Aeterali
Merauder
Death Before Dishonor
Suicide Silence
Beneath the Massacre
Skeleton Witch
Stick to Your Guns
The Faceless
Blood Runs Black
Dead Hearts
xDeathStarx
Palehorse
Bloodlined Calligraphy
The Funeral Pyre

Saturday’s performers include:

Unearth
Cannibal Corpse,
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Red Chord
Job for a Cowboy
Lizzy Borden
Goatwhore
I Killed the Prom Queen
Shai Halud
Since the Flood
Demiricous
Hallows Eve
Cellador
Beyond the Embrace
The Architect
Animosity
Psyopus
If Hope Dies
Ed Gein
The Absence
Gaza
Forever in Terror
Apiary
Sons of Azreal
The Destro
The Network

Source: smn