This is pretty much the perfect lineup. It's decided that Myself and the bassist from my band are both going.

This is going to rule so hard. Even if it's over half a year away, I'm already excited.

I'm in. Booked hotel. Waiting to buy tickets. Entire trip was a gift from the wife. Lucky man.

I guess I luck out. I don't even need to book a hotel. A good friend of mine lives about 10 minutes out of the city! Free lodging for the weekend!

Can a mod please edit the newly added bands to the OP? Just a bit inconvenient to have to search through the whole thread to know who's playing.

It feels like Christmas morning, waiting for this announcement. I did hear that The Melvins and Cobalt are supposed to be on it though.

Yeah, it looks like they've been confirmed today. Very exciting news for a fanboy like myself.

Seeing Evoken & Cobalt really excited me. The Obsessed are great too, and I've been meaning to check out Ufomammut.

Very disappointed with this announcement. Evoken are cool, but the rest of them.... =[ Oh well, the rest of the lineup is sick, and having a few 'down' bands will give me more time to spend my money on things.

Looking to be an amazing time. I get my paid time off and I turn 21 a week and a half before. The Baltimore Soundstage line-up looks amazing. Citizen's Arrest, Infest, Iron Lung, Eddie Brock, Weekend Nachos and Sete Star Sept? Going to be moshing all over the place.

4 day pass with Soundstage pass purchased! 220 days left!!!

I'm gonna get a 4-day pass sometime this week, the lineup looks amazing.

Same here.

Also, I booked my hotel room a few days ago. I'm staying at the Brookshire Suites. Anybody else staying there? It's closer to the Soundstage venue than Sonar, but if you book your room with Mastercard, you get the fourth night of your stay free (about $90/night before taxes).

FUCK! IT'S ONLY BEEN A DAY, WHY DO I HAVE TO BE BROKE.

Got 4-day pass sans-Soundstage (sold-out...). Based on which bands play which days at Soundstage, I'll probs get individual day tix for that venue.

I'm planning on getting a single day ticket for the Soundstage for whatever day Tragedy ends up playing.

I got the 4-Day pass without Soundstage. The pass with Soundstage had already sold out by the time I had a chance to buy tix and, besides, I didn't really feel the need to see any of the bands on Soundstage. It would have been nice to see Rotten Sound again, though.

Fuck! This shit's selling so fast. I saw that the four-day passes had sold out last night, so I was gonna come home to order a three-day and a Thursday pass separately, but by the time I got home Thursday had already sold out. Fuck again! I'll stomp babies if I have to miss Bolt Thrower a second time.

I've got the better part of a year to secure either a Thursday pass or a four-day pass second-hand, but still... if anyone's not sold on Thursday's lineup, or has to sell their tickets, send me a PM.

I jumped on Thursday-only tickets the minute I heard that 4-day passes had sold out and I'm glad I did because apparently the Thursday tickets sold out shortly thereafter. I don't know if 3-day passes will sell very quickly, so I'm gonna hold off a bit on buying 3-day passes until I've got a little more disposable income.

I'm glad I bought my 4 Day Sonar pass when I did, my buddy is now stuck without a Thursday pass. I plan on helping him look for one until we find one, so if anyone has a Thursday Only ticket they are looking to sell at some point, please PM me.

Through my bitter eyes, the ticket situation has just become rather humorous to me. Within 24 hrs of the fest ending this past May, me and a friend were saying how the next obvious evolution of the fest at this point would be to move it to a camp ground and do things like they do in Europe. Sure enough, that's become painfully true within the last week. Tickets have sold like they've never sold before, leaving hundreds of would be customers more or less out of luck. Its my thinking they may have even looked into the campground idea, but due to how much it would cost them and the fact that the new owners at the Sonar location were willing to host the fest again, they decided to stick with what they know and whats easiest. I think its clear now that they should have spent the extra money and taken this thing to the next level, because the outpouring I've seen by people upset that the fest sold out so quickly has been massive. This is the first public forum where I've yapped at all about it but needless to say, me and my friends are pretty bummed. Been going for 5 years and it looks like we're gonna have to miss out this time around. Really sucks.

On another, pissy note, I partly blame this on the extent to which the fest is becoming inclusive of acts that aren't particularly "extreme" metal. Pelican? Down? What the fuck is that? A random sideshow stage that features hardcore and punk exclusively? Um, what. Its the DEATHfest. And if you are going to make it this inclusive, then uh, guess what, you need to do it like they do in Europe cause venues in a city can't hold that many people. This year is looking like a case in point.

I don't think thousands of people are going to MDF to see Down and Pelican. Pretty sure Bolt Thrower, Venom and Carcass (among others) are the reasons that tickets sold so fast.

If you don't want to go to the hardcore stage, then don't go. I don't see the point in complaining about something you don't have to pay for, especially since its at a completely different venue, so there's less people competing for the same tickets. The only thing that seems to concern you that is really sold out is Thursday, which as OceanofViolence said, is because of Bolt Thrower. Three day passes are still available, and aren't selling out anytime soon apparently.

And camping is a terrible idea. The way MDF has been works out just fine.

Figured that would be the reaction of some guys on here, but I stand by my words. The last portion of my post was the most subjective of my complaints but generally speaking, it HAS gotten exponentially more popular within the last 2 years and its not all that fair for the tickets to be so exclusive. Why is a camp ground such a terrible idea? I've heard people say this and I still don't understand it. How is more space a bad idea? Oh and btw, the thursday line up is just dumb. Its probably the best day of the fest and its....the pre fest? What? I'm sorry guys, but this whole thing just stinks of bad planning and organization, in my view. I might still end up going with a 3 day pass, but even so, this thing is clearly expanding beyond its means and it needs more air to breathe. Its inevitable that it will become a European style outdoors festival unless there's some crazy restriction I'm not aware of.

Haha, last time Bolt Thrower played two times too. They sure make people go crazy here.

Seeing Bolt Thrower back to back nights was the SHIT. Anyway, I'm thinking I might still grab a three day pass and try to hunt down a thursday ticket. Obviously I've been pretty bitter about shit, but I'm thinking its probably not worth missing out on a great time and its still probably manageable, just might cost a bit more.

Yeah I was there too, man was I surprised to know they'd be the ones to replace Pestilence. I was coming over from D666 and there they were, playing. And the pit was almost dangerous.

From the MDF facebook page:

"After a meeting at the venue today with a few other key characters, we're looking into the possibility of expanding the capacity of the Thursday show, which would allow us to sell approximately 500 more tickets for that day. We will not have a definite answer about this for another 1-2 weeks, but we are in the middle of working on it. If the expansion for Thursday happens, there will NOT be any se
cond sets performed by anyone. You will simply have an opportunity to get a ticket for Thursday if you were unable to get one last week. In the meantime, please be patient.

Also, we'll probably have a list of who is playing each day finished before the weekend, several days ahead of schedule, and if so, we'll just post that info when it is ready. Single day tickets for either the former Sonar or Baltimore Soundstage will still go on sale on October 31st at 10:00 am EST."
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Glad to hear that they're doing this but those tickets will sell SO fast. Gonna have to watch their page like a hawk over the next couple weeks.

I just confirmed that Mike Amott is not playing with Carcass at MDF - apparently he left the band in 2010.

If Hail Of Bullets was going to be there again I'd seriously consider flying cross-country to see this festival for the first time. As it stands, there simply are far too few bands I care about and not a single one that I'd make a concerted effort to go see if they played local. This bill is seriously missing the quality - a big step down from last year's bill.

Manilla Road and Bolt Thrower at the same gig is just too much cool for this board to handle.

Yeah I heard rumors back in September that him and the drummer are out of Carcass altogether now. I didn't believe it until there was legitimate proof, but more people found out over time and now their page on here has only Bill and Jeff listed as the members.

So I gotta ask, if I get the Thursday tickets that are coming out the 15th am I gonna be stuck a mile from the stage?

(It should be noted all my prior gig experiences involve bars, so I'm a little in the dark how these big shows work.)

Nope, it's general admission.

I'll definitely be there.

Another round of 4-day tix + Thursday tix were released today and quickly sold out. 150 more single-day tickets for Thursday will be available on February 4th.

Just a little over a month to go before this thing kicks off. Let's revive this thread and get the hype train rolling.

Who are you looking forward to the most? Excited for any specific merch?

I ended up getting my hands on a four day all access pass a few months ago. Thursday's one-two Cobalt/Bolt Thrower punch is going to leave me aching after the first night. Saturday's particularly stacked, too. Benediction/Convulse/Hellshock/Tragedy/Repulsion/Carcass... goddamn. I'm worrying about overlap, especially between Soundstage and Sonar. Not looking forward to running those few blocks in the humid, choking hot cesspit known as Baltimore (sorry Baltimore residents), just to minimize downtime. Ryan and Evan said there won't be overlap between stages, but I don't see how that's even possible.

As for merch, I've been counting the bands I want shirts from and pre-emptively weeping for my wallet. I'm probably going to have to be a bit more selective than I'd like, partly because I'm running out of room for band shirts in my closet, and partly because I need to make it back on the plane without hitting weight/room/customs restrictions. With that said, I'm hoping that none of the bands I'm stoked to buy merch from pull a Godflesh and show up without any. I understand there are economics that come into play and such, but it was a bit disappointing to be unable to buy a shirt from a band on their first North American date in 16 years or whatever.

Then there's the lovely (cough) city herself. Has anyone here been to Sonar since the management change? Any big changes? Is it cleaner? Dirtier? (Is that possible?) Anyone know any good places to buy beer within walking distance of the Sonar or inner harbour? I went to Urban Cellars a few times last year, as well as the odd corner store. UC had some good selection, but was a bit more on the expensive side. Also: ear plugs. I'm assuming the Side Bar will be selling them again. I hope so, at least. I have no fucking clue where else to get them.

Any survival tips/horror stories/recommended places of interest are also welcome. Definitely beneficial to newcomers and returning fans alike; Baltimore can be both a beautiful and terrifying place.

Oh yes indeed it can be terrifying.

Set Times announced:

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/04 ... es-by-day/

See ya'll SUNDAY 1:50-2:25pm. Bring a hangover.

Excited for this, managed to build a 4-day all access pass piece by piece after sleeping on getting one back in October. Originally only had a Soundstage pass primarily to catch Infest and Iron Lung but after seeing how much downtime there was between bands at Soundstage and realizing there was no way in hell I was gonna miss Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Pentagram, I got a 3-day Sonar pass and one of the last-minute Thursday tickets that got released a few weeks ago.