Maryland Deathfest

Maryland Deathfest
Location(s)	Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Years active	Since 2003
Inaugurated	2003
Genre	Death metal, Grindcore, Black metal, Thrash metal, Doom metal, Crust punk, Sludge metal, Hardcore punk
Website	www.marylanddeathfest.com

Maryland Deathfest (often abbreviated to MDF) is an annual extreme music festival held in or near Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The festival mostly features death metal and grindcore bands. It has always occurred during Memorial Day weekend each year. It is also known to be the biggest annual death metal festival.

History and line-ups

MDF is the idea of two extreme metal fans named Ryan and Evan. During the 9 years of festival history, MDF has featured over 200 bands from over 20 countries, many of which make 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.

Lineup
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Devourment Aborted Internal Bleeding Malignancy Circle of Dead Children Brodequin Incinerate Saprogenic Nemo Severed Head Scumbitch	Suffocation Dying Fetus Pyrexia Skinless Leng Tch'e Severed Savior Mortal Decay Foetopsy Drogheda Suture Putrid Pile Psychotogen Lust of Decay Rupture Christ Spinefed	Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition Necrophagist 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.

Lineup
Saturday	Sunday
Swarm of the Lotus Fleshtized Internal Suffering Neuraxis Brodequin Bile Malignancy Ion Dissonance Profanity Pig Destroyer Leng Tch'e Phobia Rotten Sound Repulsion	Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus Biolich Circle of Dead Children Man Must Die Arsis Mortal Decay Dehumanized Misery Index Rompeprop Vomit Remnants The Red Chord Macabre Inhume Exhumed

2005

Maryland Deathfest 2005 was held on Saturday, May 28 and Saturday, May 29 at the House of Rock.

Lineup
Saturday	Sunday
Screaming Afterbirth Prophecy Kill the Client Warscars Rottenness Lord Gore Misery Index Pig Destroyer Leng Tch'e Wormed Gronibard Abscess Regurgitate Immolation	Amoebic Dysentery Despised Icon XXX Maniak Splatterhouse Ion Dissonance Bodies Lay Broken Ghoul Capharnaum Rotten Sound Birdflesh Aborted Impaled General Surgery Cryptopsy

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 has hosted every subsequent iteration of the festival to date.

Lineup
Saturday	Sunday
Embryonic Cryptopathia Electro Quarterstaff Cenotaph Catheter Yacoepsae Cliteater Sanity's Dawn Gorgasm Skinless Alarum Butcher ABC Anata Machetazo Demilich Haemorrhage Vital Remains	Quills Magrudergrind S.A. Sanctuary Total Fucking Destruction Mucupurulent Municipal Waste Embalmer Sayyadina Rompeprop Disfear Severe Torture Unholy Grave Cattle Decapitation Necrophagist Pungent Stench Dismember

2007

Maryland Deathfest V was held on Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27.

Lineup
Saturday	Sunday
Saprogenic Foetopsy Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation Nunwhore Commando 666 Gorod Skitsystem Cock and Ball Torture Rotten Sound Gorerotted General Surgery Regurgitate Vomitory Extreme Noise Terror Brutal Truth	Putrescence Exhale Fuck the Facts Jigsore Terror Odious Mortem Retaliation Misery Index Ghoul Birdflesh Cripple Bastards GUT Dead Infection Malevolent Creation Zyklon

2008

Maryland Deathfest VI was held from Friday, May 23 to Sunday, May 25.

Lineup
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Skarp Afgrund Torsofuck Ingrowing The Day Everything Became Nothing Phobia Squash Bowels Martyr Grave	Decrypt Defeatist Trap Them Keitzer Kalibas Waco Jesus Behold...The Arctopus Defeated Sanity Flesh Parade Disfear Coffins Fuck...I'm Dead Ghoul Monstrosity Anaal Nathrakh	Copremesis Infected Malignity Japanische Kampfhörspiele Engorged Gruesome Stuff Relish Hellnation Circle Of Dead Children Gadget Dead Impaled Dying Fetus Macabre Blood Duster Nuclear Assault

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.

Main Room Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Hero Destroyed Triac Jig-Ai Sayyadina Gnostic Pigsty Withered Venomous Concept Victims	Drugs of Faith The Gurchick Tree Maruta Pretty Little Flower Unearthly Trance Crowpath Flesh Parade Weekend Nachos Rotten Sound Misery Index Birdflesh Pig Destroyer Phobia General Surgery Wolves in the Throne Room	Complete Failure Agenda of Swine The Endless Blockade Lair of the Minotaur Magrudergrind Kill the Client Splitter Despise You Yakuza Catheter Krallice Antigama Trap Them Devourment Sigh

Outside Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Cattle Decapitation Cephalic Carnage Mayhem Asphyx	Hail of Bullets Brutal Truth Immolation Atheist Napalm Death Bolt Thrower	The Red Chord Absu Abscess Aura Noir Deströyer 666

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.

Main Room Stage
Thursday (Pre-Fest)	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Ex-Dementia XBRAINIAX Swarm of the Lotus Nekromantheon PLF Iron Lung Birdflesh General Surgery	The Communion Putrescence Defeatist Tombs Jesus Crost Birds of Prey Trap Them Watain Gride Coffins D.R.I.	Howl Sulaco Fuck the Facts Ingrowing Obliteration Jucifer Impaled Blood Duster Verbal Abuse Deceased Wolfbrigade Portal	Honkey Kong Rottenness Surroundings Massgrave Rompeprop Crucifist Gridlink Black Breath Captain Cleanoff Magrudergrind Capitalist Casualties From Ashes Rise Converge

Outside Stages
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Nazxul Malignancy Gorguts	Fang Total Fucking Destruction The Chasm Sadistic Intent/Possessed Incantation Melechesh Asphyx Repulsion Autopsy	Krallice Gorod Sinister Necrophobic Eyehategod Pestilence Nirvana 2002 Pentagram Entombed Obituary

2011

Maryland Deathfest IX was held from Thursday, May 26 to Sunday, May 29, 2011.

Main Room Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Cathedral Tragedy Buzzov•en Extortion Flesh Parade Lack of Interest Miasmal Noisear Shitstorm Witchaven	Marduk Exhumed Kylesa Cripple Bastards Machetazo Pulling Teeth Nails The Impalers	Inquisition Hooded Menace Acid Witch Defeated Sanity Doom Dropdead Blood Freak The Kill Cretin Mammoth Grinder Creative Waste Innumerable Forms Masakari	Ghost Last Days of Humanity Wormed Doubled Over Bastard Noise Skinless Repugnant Dead Congregation Bad Acid Trip Nightbringer Oak Visceral Disgorge

Outside Stages
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Neurosis Corrosion of Conformity Aura Noir Funebrarum Nocturnal	Voivod Exhorder Impaled Nazarene Hail of Bullets In Solitude Nunslaughter Cianide Avulsed	Coroner Nuclear Assault Citizens Arrest Orange Goblin Malignant Tumour Nokturnel Gravehill

2012

Maryland Deathfest X will be held from Thursday, May 24 to Sunday, May 27, 2012.

Lineup
Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Autopsy Agalloch Eyehategod Absu Dying Fetus Rorschach Needful Things Die Pigeon Die Extermination Angel	Godflesh Napalm Death Nasum Artillery Negură Bunget Unsane Ghoul Macabre Demigod Today Is the Day Morgion Nashgul Castevet	Morbid Angel Brujeria Anvil Tsjuder Winter Confessor Morbid Saint Horna Black Witchery Archgoat Noothgrush Hellbastard Deviated Instinct The Devil's Blood Haemorrhage Looking For an Answer Dragged Into Sunlight October 31 Infernal Stronghold Bloody Phoenix	Electric Wizard Saint Vitus Suffocation Morgoth Dødheimsgard Yob Sargeist Church of Misery Bethlehem Unanimated Disma Demonical Ulcerate Rwake Cough Nausea Coke Bust Agents of Abhorrence Backslider

External links

• Official website
• Official Forum