SHADOW WOODS METAL FEST 2017 Announced; Metal & Camping Weekend To Kick Off In September

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For the third year in a row, the invitation-only Shadow Woods Metal Festival is set for Thursday, September 14th through Sunday, September 17th at White Hall, Maryland’s Camp Hidden Valley. The popular festival will host 39 of the underground’s leading bands, representing all genres and subgenres of heavy metal. But there is much, much more to be experienced and enjoyed at SWMF once again this year like camping, various artist workshops, yoga classes, food vendors and more.

Taking place on four stages, a gathering of some of the best underground and extreme metal bands like All Hell, Castle, Churchburn, Cut The Architect’s Hand, Dee Calhoun, Earthling, Foehammer, Heavy Temple, Panopticon, Seasick Gladiator, Toke, Withered and many more will perform. The full roster of acts are listed below along with ticket/pricing information.

Weekend Package: $175 Full weekend package (Thursday evening -­ Sunday morning) including all musical events and camping.

Single Day Tickets (advanced ticket pricing):
$50 Thursday Only
$80 Friday Only
$80 Saturday Only

Purchase tickets at this location.

Here are the daily schedules (in alphabetical order):

Thursday: Aerial Ruin, Amigo The Devil, Dee Calhoun, Green Elder, Nechochwen, Take To The Woods

Friday: Castle, Churchburn, Dark Water Transit, Dead In The Manger, Elagabalus, Erlkonig, Fiakra, Foehammer, Heavy Temple, Human Bodies, Immaculate Deception, KYOTY, Mome, Night Raids, Sloth Herder, The Owls Are Not What They Seem, Voarm

Saturday: All Hell, Amigo The Devil, Bearstorm, Black Table, Cut The Architects Hand, Earthling, Hexis, Infera Bruo, Panopticon, Percussor, Seasick Gladiator, Toke, Vastum, Withered,  Woe, Worthless, Zud 

– Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker

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First Annual STARKFEST 2017 Announced; WAFT, ALL HELL, COME TO GRIEF, CRAWL, SWALLOW THE SKY, BASK, MIDMOURNER & More Scheduled

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One of the best, largest gatherings of underground extreme Metal and Hard Rock bands and their music has been announced with the first annual Starkfest 2017! The two-day and a half day (with pre-show) event is set to ravage Thomas Creek Brewery in Greenville, South Carolina beginning on June 1st to the 3rd. There will be a pre-fest show at Radio Room in Greenville as well that will include several must-see bands. But that is just the start of festivities as the roster of acts for it and the full-on fest weekend is an impressive array of sonic brutalists.

Between both locations you can expect performances from Black Mountain Hunger, Death/Of, Kingdom Faust, Tone, Waft, Abacus, All Hell, Cazador, Dreaded, False Light, Mothmother, Uninhabitable, WVRM, Avalon Steel, Bask, Bathe, Canopy, Cikada, Come To Grief, Crawl, Heathen Bastard, Midmourner, Swallow The Sky, Tar Hag and The Asound.

Along with all of the enjoyable features at Thomas Creek Brewery itself there will also be food truck vendors and folks on hand from retail record outlets including Greenville’s own Pharmacy Records. Starkfest 2017 is being brought to music fans from these sponsors along with Iron Rust Productions.

Tickets for Starkfest 2017 are on sale NOW and available at this location.

The line-ups for each day are as follows:

Thursday, June 1st (6/1 Pre-Show) at the Radio Room:

Black Mountain Hunger
Death/Of
Kingdom Faust
Tone
Waft (special set)

Friday, June 2nd (6/2 Day 1) at Thomas Creek Brewery:

Abacus
All Hell
Cazador
Dreaded
False Light
Mothmother
Uninhabitable
Wvrm

Saturday, June 3rd (6/3 Day 2) at Thomas Creek Brewery:


Avalon Steel
Bask
Bathe
Canopy
Cikada
Come To Grief
Crawl
Heathen Bastard
Midmourner
Swallow The Sky
Tar Hag
The Asound
Waft

– Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker

StarkFest

ALL HELL Streaming Friday’s Prosthetic Records Release ‘The Grave Alchemist’

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North Carolina-based blackened thrash trio All Hell will issue their Prosthetic Records debut, ‘The Grave Alchemist‘, this Friday, April 14th. It was recorded by Kris Hilbert (The Body) and mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust), it will be offered on CD, LP and Digital formats.

Asheville’s occult metallers in All Hell, Jacob Curwen (Vocals and Guitar), Kurt Henderson (Drums) and Erik Ballantyne (Bass) have an evil sound all their own. And guess what? You can hear it on the new album today as it is streaming via a Bandcamp embed here ahead of its release later this week. – Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker

The Grave Alchemist tracklist:

“Grave Alchemy”
“Necrosophia”
“Wed The Night”
“Vampiric Lust”
“The Castle”
“Laid To Unrest”
“Memory Tomb”
“The Madness Out Of Time”
“The Thing In The Ground”
“Return Of The Reaper”
“Elixir”
“I Am The Mist”