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Maryland Deathfest updates 2014 lineup; free shows taking place at Sidebar w/ Yautja, Bastard Sapling & more

by Doug Moore

Ashencult at Saint Vitus, 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro)

Time is ticking down before Maryland Deathfest 2014, but as ever in the music world, festival lineups are subject to change until the bands actually hit the stage. The festival issued a pretty substantial lineup and logistics update yesterday (4/20) that nixed a few previously announced bands while adding a bunch more.

Let’s do the bad news first:

The following bands on Friday at Soundstage have cancelled: ROTTING OUT (due to surgeries that a band member must undergo), ANTISECT (due to a family matter that a band member must be present for), and ENDORPHINS LOST (van broke down and they can’t tour now)….

Also, on a recent visit to the US embassy, ORATOR was told that they cannot come to the US next month, so they will not be playing on Saturday at the Edison Lot. The band is confident that they’ll be able to come here next year, and if so, we will book them then. We will be giving most bands playing on Saturday at the Edison Lot a longer set time and NOT announcing a replacement.

The three Soundstage cancellations have been replaced by Impaled, Pneumatic Slaughter, & ACxDC (who have a new album on the way).

The festival has also announced the lineup for free shows at the nearby Sidebar (218 E. Lexington Street) on every night of the festival, with doors opening for each show at 8pm and bands starting at 9. This means that there are basically 20 more bands on the MDF lineup. Some notable names include Bastard Sapling, Skelptarsis, Ashencult, Old Lines & Yautja (THEY ARE EVERYWHERE). This is all on top of the fest itself and the Misery Index / Immolation / Black Breath / Noisem preshow on Wednesday the 21st. So yeah, you’ll have no shortage of metal show options in Baltimore that week.

Check out the full lineup for those free Sidebar shows (organized by date), and the day-by-day schedule for the fest, below…

SIDEBAR MDF SHOWS

Thursday, May 22nd
Dopecopper
Bastard Sapling
Cemetery Piss
Monger

Friday, May 23rd
Nightbitch
Tombstalker
Crypter
Casket
Inverted Trifixion

Saturday, May 24th
Ashencult
The Pilgrim
Skelptarsis
Soft Dov
Wounded Giant

Sunday, May 25th
Pneumatic Slaughter
Yautja
Old Lines
Visceral Disgorge
Symbolic

Maryland Deathfest 2014 Schedule

Thu May 22, 2014

Rams Head Live
Coffins
Crowbar
Seven Sisters of Sleep
Sourvein
Torche
Triptykon
Whitehorse

Fri May 23, 2014

Baltimore Soundstage
Antisect
Capitalist Casualties
Creative Waste
Cripple Bastards
Endorphins Lost
Final Conflict
Kill the Client
Mesrine
Rotting Out
The Secret

Edison Lot
Agalloch
At the Gates
Cancer
Castevet
Mgla
Necros Christos
Solstafir
Taake
The Ruins of Beverast

Rams Head Live
Aeternus
Enthroned
Incantation
Putrisect

Sat May 24, 2014

Baltimore Soundstage
Archagathus
Birdflesh
Black Breath
Dropdead
Excruciating Terror
Extinction of Mankind
Noothgrush
Sick/Tired
Stapled Shut
Theories
Victims
БУТ

Edison Lot
Dark Angel
Diocletian
Entrails
Goat Torment
God Macabre
Machetazo
Nocturnus AD
Orator
Sacrifice
Sarke
Tankard
Unleashed

Rams Head Live
Asphyx
Bolzer
Hooded Menace
Schirenc
War Master

Sun May 25, 2014

Baltimore Soundstage
Death Toll 80k
Enabler
Internal Rot (AU)
Left for Dead
Maruta
Ratos de Porao
Shitstorm
Unholy Grave

Edison Lot
Bongripper
Candlemass
Gorguts
Graves at Sea
Inquisition
Misery Index
My Dying Bride
Pseudogod
Soilent Green
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
Windhand
Wrathprayer

Rams Head Live
Immolation
Mitochondrion
Mutilation Rites
Ulcerate