New England Metal & Hardcore Festival – Lineup, Ticket Prices, Dates Confirmed
The NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL, presented by ESP Guitars & Basses and Krank Amps, is set for Friday, April 27 and Saturday, 28 with a Friday night headline performance by Norwegian black metal sensations DIMMU BORGIR and a tribute to Metal Blade Records’ 25th Anniversary to cap off the festival on Saturday night.
The festival will join forces with Metal Blade this year to celebrate the label’s 25th anniversary. Numerous Metal Blade bands will perform on Saturday in tribute to the long-standing, highly respected metal label, in addition to a once-in-lifetime performance that will bring together musicians from Metal Blade’s stellar roster of bands.
“Metal Blade is very happy to celebrate our 25th Anniversary at the legendary NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL,” said Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel. “We are able to have most of our roster appear at this great festival. We have always been big supporters of the NEMF and found this was the perfect way to kick off our 25th Anniversary celebration.”
Additional bands confirmed for Friday are:
- Bury Your Dead
- Devil Driver
- Satyricon
- Walls of
- 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
- Forever in Terror
- Apiary
- Sons of Azreal
- The Destro
- The Network
“ESP is happy to once again support this year’s NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL,” said Allen Steelgrave, Director of Marketing and Artist Relations, ESP Guitars. “We’re proud that the majority of the bands at this year’s festival will be playing ESP and LTD guitars, and we do everything we can to help support the artists who choose ESP.”
Now in its ninth year, the NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL has built a name as the country’s premiere festival for these genres, drawing fans from across the country and around the world.
The NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL takes place at the Palladium, located at
On-site vendors will include ESP Guitars / Krank Amps, Eulogy Recordings / Hand Of Hope Records, Metal Blade Records, Monster Energy Drink, Prosthetic Records, Revolver Magazine, Roadrunner Records, and many more in the festival’s marketplace area.
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Not exactly a horrible lineup but incredibly disappointing. Really nothing unique like previous years.
^ yeah, agreed.
not as good as other years but..ill still be there
whos headlining on saturday??
beneath the massacre fucking OWNS!
Hmm, the NEMF website hasn’t updated yet. Still waiting to see the guidelines for unsigned acts to get on this. Either way, I’m there. Behemoth is supposedly playing Friday as well.
And I believe Corpse is headlining Saturday.
cannibal corpse headline?
why not unearth?
Wow, a bunch of tour packages in the same place at the same time……yawn…
that line up sucks
Cannibal Corpse would never, ever headline over Unearth. not unless they would want to lose half their attendance after Unearth plays
Ive heard dimmu is headlining one of the days. guess not.
Where did you hear such a thing? At the top of the article maybe?……….
Probably shoulda read more carefully rofl. I did hear that though before i read it.