Maryland Deathfest XIV, Baltimore MD, feat. Venom, Mayhem, Testament, Repulsion
Maryland Deathfest, in short MDF, made me return to Baltimore. It would be my third visit to Baltimore and my fourth visit to the USA, now with Daniel instead of Tom. I have known for a long time he’s got some financial issues to solve and as I totally don’t care about (my) money, I knew I’d return once again. Actually, it was some three weeks after my previous visit the dates would be set for MDF XIV, with Deströyer 666, Gruesome, Exciter, Jungle Rot and my friends of Hail of Bullets in the first batch of bands announced. I knew enough. MDF XIV will hold Westfriesians again, now with Daniel. At first it would be even better, as Dane said he’d travel! All the way from Australia! Bring Jason and Jason (aka A2C and Resevil239) in too. For some time I thought my The Hague buddies would be in for it too, but I haven’t heard from Koen nor Ariaan in ages. No news about any known Germans getting to Baltimore (except Tormentor in Desaster of course
) so far. Danester had to back out too.. Crash bought his ticket and gave his own to Scott and Missy. The list of bands became hotter and hotter. Actually, a while ago, when the final bands had been announced I thought the organizers might have to change the name to Maryland Thrashfest, as acts like Testament, Venom, Nuclear Assault, Atrophy, Hirax, Satan and even Demolition Hammer climb on stage in Edison Lot, Soundstage and Ram’s Head… Pre-pre-party would be held in the Ottobar, featuring Absu, so Daniel got us tickets for that too. There would be an after-party as well, but as it would be on Monday we figured we probably didn’t need pre-sale; let alone decide whether to go or not.
We booked flights end of October and Missy kept asking ‘when do you come’?
I couldn’t answer as we booked both the tickets and the flights at Daniel’s house and I didn’t have the confirmation mails (anymore..) but it would be a blast anyway. Would Aesoth and Iced join us too? How about Ashman or Subzero? Would we brunch Cuban again? Would we be accompanied by Angie and Alan, Simone and Monika, Andrée and Kathe, would Missy have held her promise about the couch?
Having all the time in the world is a good thing after a period of stress, headaches and other sores. So, we would fly on Monday; the first band would appear at Wednesday. I took my postal bag to my brother’s house near the train station so I wouldn’t have to pull 15 kg of T-shirts and other goo on my bike. I am so glad I did, as it was raining on the Monday of departure. I quickly made coffee in Toon’s house (we share our house keys) and still with plenty of time I walked up to the station, to be hauled by the shop keeper there. It’s a small barista and he knows how I drink my coffee. I got it for free
. At Murphey’s at Schiphol I met my former Groningen metal buddy Steven Luitjens and had a nice, but short chat with him. He’d travel to Russia, I’d do the Counter Cold War Route haha. The flight was relatively easy, saw movies, heard music, read some and had a slightly bumpy ride. Coming to Detroit was no fun, as it took so long for customs to clear the line we missed the connecting flight and had to wait five hours. Thanks to bar attendant Tammy we had no problem to wait five hours. Missy picked us up and the welcome was warm. Thanks!
Missy actually had to work on Tuesday but she shared a few beers with us anyway. Daniel got the second bedroom, I got the better part of the couch as always. I slept good, knowing my biological clock could be reset or not, but I was OK. Awoke for a sec when Scotty told me ‘wakey wakey sleepy head’… at four in the morning… but it’s all in good fun. Finally he's employed again.. I made myself some scrambled eggs and did dishes. Where’s Crash when you need him
We filled the day with two Die Hard movies, Full Metal Jacket (I wasn’t sure if I’d ever seen it entirely) and got out for Chili’s. Chill way to start a vacation, we ended the first whole day with YT-ing each other. Wednesday we’d head out to the Soundgarden music shop at Fell’s Point, grab a CD or two, eat great pizza (I forgot the difference in 10 or 14 inches vs. centimeters and ate pizza three times
) and tried many different beers at Max’ Land of Beers before we were brought to Ottobar for the pre-pre party. I messed around with my bank card four times before I just picked up my credit card and took off. 4 times into stress for one silly internet safety setting… At the Ottobar I was nearly overhauled by Rotterdam Drank-a-Lot Acca and his buddy Erwin before talking to Chicken Guy. At the Ottobar we already got our wrist bands! Nice, not to have to wait endlessly to get that
. First band began, I hadn’t even seen which, but the first alcomaholic was thrown out already. That must have been a worthy mention to Guinness’ Book of World Records, as this happened before Putrisect ended their first song! Five minutes into the fest, out!!!
Daniel met Scott’s friend Mark, he’d be in for the grindcore and sludge bands all weekend. Mark had been working with Scott for the various internet radio broadcasts they had done.
Before the bands began I got shouted to by Brian, we had met at the fire drill of 70,0000 Tons of Metal 2014. Our mutual friend Todd couldn’t make it, but I will send him the pictures and the links. Hope all is well with your family, Todd, we meet again. First band tonight was said Putrisect. I was still talking to Brian and only saw half a song, but Daniel stated they sounded tons better than in Baroeg. Second band was Pissgrave. I thought of hearing ex-Marduk’s Legion barf into a bucket of strings, but Daniel really liked this! Extreme, intense, loud, shrill, Daniel bought a shirt. Of next band Cryfemal I can say I found it a bit 13-12 black metal, but at least they have a show element in their singer, he’s wearing more wristbands than clothes… he wore nothing than corpse paint and a filthy boxer short with huge letters R.I.P. on it… how artistic :/ I can’t say I was highly entertained by Profanatica as well, the band wore some brown plague coveralls and it made them look stiff beyond necessity. Their music sounded stiff to me as well. Daniel had been contacted by Missy that she was on the parking lot already, so we decided to leave Absu after only one song. That song reminded me of ancient Dimmu Borgir with a hint to Celtic Frost. Fine with me, maybe they show up somewhere else. We were tired and wanted a nice Yuengling at the Corprew residence and had an intense talk with Missy about life. Great! I slept like a rock, made food and did the dishes. No need for Crash
The actual pre-party to the festival held doom/sludge/stoner bands in the Ram’s Head and extreme death metal in Baltimore Soundstage. Daniel and me mostly opted for the death metal and Missiy accompanied Mark to bands like Bongripper, Weedeater and Earth. We ate a footlong before actually entering Ram’s Head and one sign already shut me out: ‘No Moshing, No Stagediving’. Strange, I felt most unwelcome there and that feeling got bigger along the day. The Sub even had another sign: ‘Please try to leave within 15 minutes, Thanks, Management’ Ughh. Security also didn’t understand my protective box for my glasses. Gladly I soon found our Rotterdam and German friends (Acca, Erwin, Kathe and Andree and shared the first beers in Soundstage. Daniel didn’t linger much, as he really wanted to see Visceral Disgorge and he was right: this is soooo blunt! Andree even showed us his goose bumps haha. The sound was great, first mosh pit of the day present, band going nuts, audience awakened instantly heh heh. Of following band Waco Jesus I had no idea what to expect, but my pre-thoughts of stoner were blown away in seconds. I could have known, as their shirts said ‘King of Grind’ in a Kiss Army way
Having met Chicken Guy yesterday, now it was Camel Boy’s turn to start the pit. A nice massacre of sharp deathgrind followed. I got introduced to Jimmy Genenz from Jungle Rot by Kathe and had a funny discussion about how to pronounce the band name Macabre
: He had often toured with Corporate Death and Co. and clearly noticed I was European haha.
Dehumanized was next. Put Malevolent Creation in a blender and you have an idea how it sounds; add a touch of Suffocation heaviness to the mix, spice it up with Bolt Thrower vocals and you don’t need dessert haha. I loved this! I wasn’t really in for Putrid Pile so I tried to find my MRU friends in the Ram’s Head and got to see Bongripper for five minutes. That was enough to me, all I heard was a long pulled session of tuning guitars and the audience gets into trance? Tha kcuf?? I was shooed off the stairs by Ram’s Head staff without explanation and I was so pissed off I flipped the bird and ran. I need death metal to cool me down a bit and what did I get: Jungle Rot! Holy Blating Sheep, what a great sound this band had! So far this is my highlight of the bands, as a raging band was greeted by a raging crowd. I don’t have any song titles, but sometimes you don’t need the strict letter of songs to have a great time. I do have heard they played songs off different albums, but don’t ask which one, my head was spinning most of the time. Sharing a Captain Diet with Todd (not the 70K one but the Arizona death head) and a beer with Daniel, all Ram’s Head unfairness dripped off me and we just had a great time. I even got complimented for my huge Gorefest patch, but the complimenting man couldn’t do much with The Shavers back patch beneath haha. Later on I got my picture taken with Waco Jesus singer Shane Bottens. I thought my last band tonight would be Severe Torture, the near-grind, blunt as butter, hard as cookie dough death metal machine from my own country. Hah, great to wear my Dutch denim as the band goes absolutely to the limit. I replaced my neck with a concrete mixer and was totally filled up in gore, splatter and corpses
Halfway the set one pitter flew into me and a 600 lbs woman next to me, I helped her up with three other men and even before she thanked me her 150 lbs sister punched my arm madly, huh? This is no rape attempt, goon! I got a guitar pick from guitarist Marvin Vriesde and went to the Ram’s Head to get back to my friends. I picked up a few minutes of Earth, but those minutes took too long. My sphincter heals faster than this band plays goddamned. I knew this is Mark’s sort of favorite band so I hope he's not offended, I hated this. Soooo sloooooowwwww… good thing: we agreed to grab a swift bite before entering the house again. Scott had been to Ram’s Head for Goblin but I haven’t seen him nearly the entire day. Couple of Yuenglings and we’re hitting the pillow. Damned, I still need to get the beers I promised!
Thursday the ‘actual’ MDF would start as Edison Lot is open now to. Finally we get our pre-ordered shirts… they sold them at the Soundstage but all we heard was ‘get yours at Edison Lot’… the car was near so we put all our merch in the car. Centinex wasn’t the first band that played, but we saw them through the gate and then on to the festival ground. It was very nice to experience some kind of Kataklysm vibe and the sound was OK. Later on I still could make some pictures. On the smaller stage November’s Doom was up and they played a killer set. I instantly remembered Tom waiting until 4 at night on 70K and he was right, the band was on fire and Paul Kurten sure hits all highs AND all lows HARDDD! I wasn’t in for Wormed somehow (they’d play twice anyway, as at least Discharge cancelled a few weeks before. There would be some bands playing twice anyway, as Daniel told me Gruesome would do two shows.) Meeting Alan, Angie and Alan’s son AJ was fun; Alan tried to tie me to himself for not missing his favorite band of the day: Khold. The dark, sinister and sometimes bleach black metal was great! Sinister was replaced by Gruesome due to visa problems and they. Kicked. Ass. Again! Even tailgating with Jason (formerly from Florida, first met him when I saw Amon Amarth in Ft. Lauderdale) and Jeff (Baltimore resident) was fun this way, pictures follow! The songs I got to see closer near stage were Trapped in Hell, losing my sunglasses headbanging so fast
. Savage Land.. return of the sunglasses haha. A huge circlepit was destroyed once more
and singer Matt Harvey shouted during Closed Casket ‘louder, louder!! We’ve got some neighbors to piss off!’
The Haunted played on the small stage after that. I wanted to see some merch and only got a hint of Bury Your Dead through the fence. I met Darren again, gave him the Hail of Bullets treatment. That means… buy a special edition Bullets over Baltimore shirt and just see the surprise. I bought four in the end, gave the very last XXL shirt for Alan, one for Angie, one for me and one for Darren. We ran into each other all day
On main stage I lost my marbles the coolest way possible as Paradise Lost played an ancient set… Pity the Sadness, Rapture, As I Die (gave my camera to pin the excitement I was in
. Seals the Sense… I went all the way. Nick Holmes was also dry as sand again, as he said ‘Terminal, the next song is NOT about flying, it’s about DYING!!!
I was actually surprised Samael was on small stage doing a full Ceremony of Opposites set. 'Dane, you were right, it’s a great album and we miss you!!' We were on quite a distance from the stage, but we enjoyed the set greatly and super relaxed. Then again, even aggressive music can be soothing
as I introduced Scott to Ross Dolan and got to talk to the Severe Torture guys. Some chick in a Goatwhore shirt didn’t believe it actually was Ross, having seen Immolation tour with Goatwhore myself once, she kept squealing at him he got annoyed a bit
Mayhem was ending the main stage but Scott already left during the intro to get to the Soundstage. The first band we saw there was ¥aecøpsæ (don’t ask me to type that again, as it was some 13-12 grindcore to me) but with an Obscene Extreme pit: the beach ball, the walking dick, Cow Guy, the horse mask, luminiscent sticks and so on. The crowd went nuts but I wasn’t into it. Same with Rotten Sound, as I think I simply expected too much. We had come for Repulsion!! It was fucking awesome! Sharp, loud, witty, excellent sound and a picture of the set list, add the rest of the titles yourself
:
- Stench
- Eaten
- Acid Bath
- Slaughter
- Decomposed
- Radiation
- Splattered
- Festering
- Pestilent
- Cremation
- Driven
- Six Feet Under
- Bodily
- Repulsion
- Lurking
- Black Breath
- The Hammer
- Maggots
- Horrified
AWESOME!! GREAT!! THRILLING!! Need I say more? We went out and talked a lot about those bands until I nearly fell asleep. Yeah, this was cool and yeah, I was drunk. Very drunk.
I kept saying ‘don’t have too much mercy with me, as my current condition is totally self-inflicted’ but if even pop tarts hardly stay in you can say ‘Herman has a hangover’
What better way to recuperate is with fierce music? That fierce music was delivered by Hirax. The band had just started when we entered Edison Lot and to My Shrill Vocal Beast, what a great show Katon & Co. gave. With songs like Lucifer’s Inferno, El Dia de los Muertes and El Diablo the audience went over the top. Katon thanked the organizers and especially all ‘suppliers of beer because we need beer, right?’
I wasn’t in for beer yet but got the joke
The band ended with instrumental S.O.W. and Violence of Action. We couldn’t see the entire set as there would be a full MRU meeting at the Atrophy show; Scott loves the band to bits and I’m certainly not unfamiliar with the band that had two such great records but hardly got known outside of their own city. And when they did play Holland I was too late… the band had not played for 20 odd years and already said sorry for any stiffness
Missy got the set list, I grabbed in the wrong direction :/
- Intro (Scott stating, the set list withering in the wind, ‘oh good they do Beer Bong, we need someone to grab a few beers to drink to that one!’)
– Killing Machine
- Rest in Pieces
- Violent by Nature
- In Their Eyes
- Right to Die
- Preacher, Preacher (singer Brian Zimmerman does ALL the highs and ALL the lows and he still sounds great! And I’d forgotten dat great bass part!!)
- Socialized Hate
- Chemical Dependency
- Product of the Past
- Puppies and Friends
- Slipped
[**begin rant**- Beer Bong was on the set list, but the organizers made a fool of themselves to cut the show off!! Huh? Isn’t a band that does a reunion show after 20 years not allowed to do their shortest party song? Very dumb thing to do, I thought. When Atrophy was announced I had thought they would have been given a higher spot on the bill as well, but clearly I’m no organizer :/ I did get the beers for Beer Bong, but wasn’t allowed to take three beers in one time? What the fuck is this crap? No more tips for you guys! I wore my Dutch denim and I’m glad I have huge pockets, but it took a little longer to get back to front row. I understood later on there is some goofball law about the amount of beers to be served? Huh? This pissed me off too!!! **end rant**] OK, this was an AWESOME show! Bodyparts were flying, hairs sweeping, arms into the air, throats mostly open, the occasional crowd surfer… this was great. The band enjoyed it a lot too, there was a lot of interaction between the stage, in front of the stage and next to the stage too. Later I found out people could buy VIP arrangements for the Edison Lot, where you could get backstage whenever you wanted. It must have cost about $ 100 dollar more, saw some familiar faces but I want to meet band members on the ground, not backstage
Yesterday I already spotted Paul Baayens, Katon W. de Pena roamed the venue and after the show the Atrophy guys weren’t easily removed from the exit of the backstage area. I have a few pictures of me with two or all Atrophy members and so does Scott.
Having seen the entire Atrophy show only had one downer for me: I could not reach the front row for the next battle: Hail of Bullets! After the news the band split ways with Martin van Drunen all shows but this one were cancelled and they soon introduced the man that was sort of an easy guess: Dave Ingham was available, he’s a known death metal singer and Dave and Martin share two bands now: Bolt Thrower and Hail of Bullets. How would it be? Dave does sing slower, so it seems, Martin articulates a lot more and am I crazy in thinking the band played mostly the slower songs?
- Swoop of the Falcon
- Operation Z
- General Winter (Dave joking about the heat in Baltimore ‘I fukcing live in Denmark, I’m no longer used to heat’
)
- DG7
- Advancing Once More
- On Coral Shores
- Red Wolves of Stalin – huge and violent pit occurring – Stefan Gebédi announcing Dave Ingham is now an official member of Hail of Bullets – cheers
- Tokyo Napalm Holocaust – Dave’s tribute to Kiddie (Bolt Thrower, R.I.P.)
- Ordered Eastward FINALLY some goosebumps!!
I was moping about Dave’s lack of interaction with the audience and didn’t really like the smaller reach Dave has compared to Martin, but the goosebumps at Ordered Eastward tipped the balance in favor: this was a good show. Daniel had a great time and he even asked if he could get my Bullets over Baltimore shirt, even pay for it if I wanted that! I hesitated a bit, but choose not to sell my BoB shirt. For once I am egoistic…
I met Richard and Darren again and we got to the smaller stage. I had no schedule what so ever, so I could be surprised anytime. Darren mentioned the name but somehow all I made of it was ‘Black metal with beach balls’ haha. Are grindcore tactics allowed in black metal now? It took one closer look to the stage to see who Darren meant: it was Impaled Nazarene. They had a great time on stage, I smiled. This band can perform a salty as cement or as fierce as an oven, nothing in between. This was a good show. Slutti666 made a lot of jokes on the weather, the elections and the difference between Finland and the rest of the world.
And now, for another real treat: Exciter in original setting! Johnson, Beehler, Ricci!! I Am The Beast! Victims of Sacrifice! Violence & Force! Long Live The Loud! Heavy Metal Maniac! Evil Sinner! Beyond the Gates of Doom! I know I missed two titles screaming and banging so much! The sound was G.E.W.E.L.D.I.G.!!! What a great set, what a great music. It hasn’t aged a bit! This was sooooo coooooollll!! Even the Atrophy guys were banging at their self made merch stand, we were thanked for our participation in their highlight of the festival too. About merch, apart from MDF merch and venders with shirts of bands that didn’t play there wasn’t a lot of choice. I think I was lucky to have found the BoB shirts (and, of three sizes, the XXL for Alan being their very last one) but have not seen much other specific shirts. No mention of the reunions of Atrophy and Exciter, no goodbye-to-Nuclear Assault shirt, mostly illegal patches…
No need to wallow long, as Nuclear Assault is up next. On the festival ground I heard this actually IS NOT their final show, as at least two more will follow. I just walked around, looking for old thrashers with big grins on their faces; I got plenty of those. But if this WOULD have been the final goodbye, they wouldn’t have brought in Nick Barker and another guitar player I didn’t recognize. Those surely weren’t Bramante or Evans! OK, still, this was another great moment for me. I said before Nuclear Assault is special to me and to combine the very first thrash metal band I ever saw with their ‘goodbye’-show and another band I saw that day was a great coincidence to me (Testament). One other fun fact: the band was as sloppy as that first time and again the first tune I recognized was… Stranded in Hell… also the fifth song they played… pure coincidence. Also present: Connelly’s dry, witty humor regarding the show and the songs ‘you know, there is an epidemic going on and we’re close to the centre of it. It’s in Washington and it’s called ‘stupidity’
Last band today was to be Testament. Would they do stupid things like mess with the sound check? Who was in it again? The answers are short: No; Billy, Peterson, Skolnick, DiGiorgio, Hoglan. THEY SLEW!! Dokk’Em easily forgotten! Remember Wacken 2003! Over the Wall as first song, the list isn’t complete but what the heck: Rise Up, The Preacher, Practise What you Preach, The New Order, Into the Pit [6 Germans and herrieman doing their own, wayyyyy off stage
nearly lost ANOTHER camera :/] Disciples of the Watch, The Formation of Damnation with a great wall of death. Angie and Alan were spotted in the wall of death too
I had another great time with Ed Warby showing my Dutch denim (yeah, with Gorefest HUGE on it
) and saw Bettina run into the pit during Disciples. Panting she came back and said ‘I’m 45 now, sometimes you just have to do stuff you’ve never done before’ hahaha. Both Ayreon and The 11th Hour are working on material. I found a super deal: a 2015 hoodie with the good front print, all the bands and big enough for only $15!
Actually, I had plans to get to Ram’s Head and/or Soundstage again, but having been just recovered from a hangover I chose not to. I don’t know Craft nor the other bands, leave that up to Res. Daniel had been bullied by a colleague ‘just get into Walmart or you haven’t been in America’ and we had a great time with Super Cheetos (about 4 times as big as Dutch ones) and the crackers and cheese snack Scott provided. Tomorrow even more metal, as Gruesome was to play for the second time as Discharge cancelled and Wormed filled in for Sinister (visa problems). Nighty night!
I awoke to the delicious smell or one of Missy’s specialties: grilled bacon. Stories about metal and metalheads were followed by more stories haha. Today we’d go by three cars as Res would go home to Philly after the show, Mark would be mostly around Power Plant today (combine Ram’s Head and Soundstage) and Scott had to work the following day. Daniel and me wanted to see Wombbath as I bought their split 7” with Revel in Flesh; Desaster and Interment up, reunion of Demolition Hammer; Satan and Venom headlining on Edison Lot. First band was Nocturnal Graves. We had never heard of them but they sounded great! Awfully foul music, fast, dirty, aggressive. It was like Desaster on crack, I have to check this band out! Walking to the small stage Desaster’s Tormentor was already adjusting his cymbals, so another bro time for me. Wombbath was the first band we saw on the small stage. It’s sick death metal, they have an awesome drummer and a singer with not only a great blackened death metal voice but also a 4 feet goatee haha. Great to see Daniel go nuts! So, Desaster is up next. I am very pleased with their new album The Oath of an Iron Ritual and I’m not the only one. The death/thrash slashes through necks and livers like only Desaster can do. Stephan Hüskens throws a broken stick into the audience but he forgot to bring more than one pair of sticks
so he actually has to ask if even the broken stick can be brought back to stage
The set wasn’t even 3/4ths in haha.
We had no interest in Bongzilla so we tailgated in the sun. Actually it started raining slightly when we returned to the festival site as Interment was up next. The rain got heavier and I decided to keep my (relatively) dry shirt in my shorts pocket and wander the terrain only in denim. What’s not covered, dries faster I always learned. We stood first row at Interment and it kicked ass! We banged our head fervently but as I don’t know the songs too well I went out for some food and to some people’s horror: strawberry lemonade. I will not dehydrate today! No hangover on Monday! But the Greek chicken tasted North Korean and the Bratwurst was godawful. The bun seemed to come from the Sahel desert… Drain away with Bud… also not the best in the world… Incantation was up next at the small stage, but as it was raining heavily now, I decided to stay under the viaduct and watch. Compared to earlier Incantation shows I had absolutely NOTHING with this one. I got bored by the vocals and the drone-like guitars somehow. I decided to return to the Bud Booth and there was another MRU meeting goin’on: Alan, Angie, Jason, Jeff, Daniel, Scott and Missy. I even ate the remainder of Missy’s pasta and that tasted A LOT better than the gloop I had before. One of the earlier meals on the Edison Lot was a cheeseburger with gloop instead of cheese and fries with gloop instead of cheese. I couldn’t even finish it. You do know I love cheese, right?
No need to linger much, as Demolition Hammer was up next! The band simply demolished Baltimore to dust; Daniel just said ‘fuck the rain’ and he was totally right! I soon followed and banged my head until I saw nothing more than drizzling hair and an odd angle through my glasses. No I haven’t lost it
G.R.E.A.T.!!! Band, start booking shows in Europe A.S.A.P.! Start on new material! This was another killer set on a festival that had some great bands already! I took some pictures and these were my last ones of this edition of MDF. I brought my shirt and camera to the car and partied on. Satan was up next. The rain was getting obnoxious but I had to see them at least. Original singer Brian Ross is in great shape, the band is tight (how else with such experienced guitar players as Ramsey and Tippins in the band??). But… after their very first song Trial by Fire (I even wanted to text my Arizona friend Craaaasshhhh!) I got actually elitist… I thought ‘they played my favorite song, I’ve seen them, all the others are at the car’ and I just left Jason and Jeff and went away. Call me fool, call me doof, but I was wet, cold and wanted a beer that would taste… Jason and Jeff wanted to see Venom and some bands in Ram’s Head but we had Triscuits & cheese, no Excel (…). Mark went to Power Plant by cab to save his equipment and Jason drove to Philly after a nice final chat. MDF’16 is over to us, not to Mark. He’ll go to the MDF afterparty with Doom and Infest, we will look to get to Richmond Virginia. Tourist all the way
maybe hook up with Municipal Waste
[Ryan Waste was on Edison Lot at least twice].
This was another great edition of Maryland Deathfest, call it Maryland Thrashfest, Maryland Grindfest or even Maryland Stonerfest I don’t care, the bands were mostly tops and we got to see some awesome shows. Spotted friends, missed a few ones, made new friends. American, Mexican, German, Dutch, band member of just paying visitor and spent about $ 500 on beer and other surprises. I say this to everybody: come to MDF once! Get here a second, third or (in my case) a fourth time. It’s absolutely worth it! Grind, thrash, death, black, sludge, all METAL!
Slightly adjusted from
http://www.mruforums.com/f22/maryland-d ... ion-17608/