As one of the biggest metal festivals in America, Maryland Deathfest has had some ridiculously huge names on its roster over the past 10 years.  But for Maryland Deathfest XI, the awesome quotient has been upped. MDF XI’s organizers confirmed the final lineup today, spread out between Baltimore Soundstage and the former Sonar compound, and it’s a straight-up laundry list of metal’s heaviest hitters both underground and infamous.  While we won’t just copy the full list here, a few highlights and favorites of ours:

!T.O.O.H.!

CARCASS

DOWN

EXODUS

IHSAHN

THE MELVINS

THE OBSESSED

PAGAN ALTAR

PELICAN

PENTAGRAM

PIG DESTROYER

SLEEP

VENOM

CONVERGE

Let the record show, this is going to rule.  Multi-day passes and Thursday-only tickets go on sale next Monday (15), at which point one final band playing Soundstage Thursday will be announced.  We were already freaking out about this when the first sixteen bands were announced in July, but at this rate, it’s hard not to wonder whether or not the final announcement will include a resurrected Cliff Burton.

Check out the entire festival lineup after the jump.

At the Former Sonar compound:

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Abigail

Ahumado Granujo

Ambassador Gun

Anhedonist

Antaeus

Aosoth

Ascension

Asthma Castle

Benediction

Bolt Thrower

Broken Hope

Carcass

Carpathian Forest

Cobalt

Convulse

Cruciamentum

Deiphago

Down

Evoken

Exodus

Glorior Belli

Gride

Ihsahn

Ingrowing

Iniquity

Integrity

Kommandant

Loss

Manilla Road

(The) Melvins

Midnight

Morgion

Necropsy

The Obsessed

Pagan Altar

Pelican

Pentagram

Pig Destroyer

Repulsion

Revenge

Righteous Pigs

Sleep

Speedwolf

Ufomammut

Venom

Vinterland

Weedeater

 

At the Baltimore Soundstage:

Citizens Arrest

Converge

Disciples Of Christ

Eddie Brock

Feastem

Full Of Hell

Heartless

Hellshock

Ilsa

Infest

Iron Lung

Kromosom

Like Rats

Magrudergrind

Old Lines

Rotten Sound

Sete Star Sept

Tinner

Vitamin X

Wake

Weekend Nachos