We usually talk about more mainstream festivals across the US with big headliners like Megadeth, Five Finger Death Punch or Disturbed; we also talk a bit about more underground fests like the well-known Maryland Deathfest or Hells Headbash but if we wanna go deep in the true underground, we need to talk about Shadow Woods Metal Fest.
If you live on the east coast, like more underground bands and camping, we suggest going to the second edition of Shadow Woods Metal Fest which will take place at the Camp Hidden Valley in White Hall, MD between September 15-18 and will boasts a large array of North American bands including the enigmatic black metal band Ghost Bath and some international acts like Chinese folk band Tengger Cavalry or Canadian post-metallers Numenorean.
The festival includes bands of a lot of sub-genres of heavy metal represented including death metal, thrash, black metal, doom metal, sludge, stoner, heavy rock, drone, noise, experimental, progressive, folk and classic “traditional” heavy metal and more. Check out the full list of bands below and make sure to get your tickets at this location.
A SOUND OF THUNDER (DC) **traditional old-school heavy metal
ATHAME (MD/WV) **black
AT THE GRAVES (MD) **solo doom-sludge
ACID WITCH (Detroit) **horror death
BLOOD STORM (PA/TX) **black thrash
BOUND BY THE GRAVE (Baltimore) *death
CEMETERY FILTH (TN) ** death
CEMETERY PISS (Baltimore) **black
COFFIN DUST (Philadelphia) **death
CORPSE LIGHT (Baltimore) *doom
DARSOMBRA (MD) **psychedelic drone
DESTROYER OF LIGHT (Austin, TX) **sludge
EMPYREUS (Chicago) **black
FAITH IN JANE FEATURING WINO (MD) ** doom trio joined by the godfather of the sound
GENEVIEVE (MD) **experimental black
GHOST BATH (ND) **suicidal depressive black
GRAVE GNOSIS (St. Petersburg, FL) **black
HAXEN (Rhode Island) **black
HELGAMITE (VA) **doom/stoner/sludge
HELLEBORUS (Manitou Springs, CO) **black
HERON (NC) **black
HORSESKULL (NC) **sludge/doom
LOTUS THIEF (CA) **blackened space rock
MYOPIC (DC) **death/doom
NUMENOREAN (Calgary, AB) **post-black
SACRIFICIAL BLOOD (NJ) **thrash death
SADGIQACEA (Philadelphia) **doom/sludge/black
SADISTIC VISION (PA/NC) **death
SAPREMIA (New Jersey) **death
SURGEON (Philadelphia) **progressive
TELOCH VOVIN (NY) **black
TEMPLE OF VOID (Detroit) **doom
TENGGER CAVALRY (NY/CHINA) ** Mongolian folk
T.O.M.B. (Philadelphia) **ritual noise
TOMBS (Brooklyn) ** black/post-metal
TORRID HUSK (WV) **depressive/melodic black
VORATOR (Richmond) **death/thrash
WIZARD EYE (PA) **doom
XEUKATRE (Baltimore) **black
ZUD (Maine) ** black
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