It's Gonna Get Sweaty: A Maryland Deathfest Preview
Clockwise from top left: Electric Wizard, Autopsy and Dragged Into Sunlight.
Once a year, we pull out our skull goblets, prepare various sacrifices and get ourselves ready for Maryland Deathfest. Now in its tenth year, Maryland Deathfest is the largest metal festival in the United States. On this episode, host Bob Boilen is joined by NPR Music's resident metal fiend and Viking berserker, Lars Gotrich, and metal writer Kim Kelly to preview some of the doom, black metal and crust punk artists performing on this year's stages. With band names like Autopsy, Infernal Stronghold and Dragged Into Sunlight, it's going to be a dark, twisted and awesome time.
Be sure to follow our two metal scribes at MDF this week as they document four days of sweaty mosh, sometimes questionable hygiene and so, so many black t-shirts. You'll find interviews and photos on Lars' Tumblr and @totalvibration, plus more coverage from @grimkim. See you in the pit.
Maryland Deathfest, A Full Metal Preview
Infernal Stronghold
- Album: Godless Noise
- Song: Snorting the Ruins of Sodom
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Extermination Angel
- Album: Demo 2009 a.k.a. "Advancement Into Obscurity"
- Song: Whirlwind Killing Spree
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Hellbastard
- Album: Natural Order
- Song: I Beg in Blood
Learn more about this release on the band's website.
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