This has turned out to be an exciting day for U.S. festival announcements. In addition to the news that Panopticon will be one of the headliners at the Migration Fest on the west coast, the Shadow Woods Metal Festival also made some announcements about the second edition of their cool event, coming this fall on the other side of the country.
As was true last year, Shadow Woods will be an open-air camping metal party that will run for three days in central Maryland: from Thursday, September 15th through Sunday, September 18th at Camp Hidden Valley, in White Hall, Maryland, the same location where the first edition of the fest was held last year.
Organizer Mary Spiro and her team (who are joined by Baltimore’s Grimoire Records as co-producers this year) have been announcing performers since January, and six more bands were named today. So far, 21 bands are confirmed to perform, and more are still yet to come. Here’s what it looks like as of today:
A SOUND OF THUNDER (DC) **traditional old-school heavy metal
ACID WITCH (Detroit) **horror death
BLOOD STORM (PA/TX) **black thrash
BOUND BY THE GRAVE (Baltimore) *death
CEMETERY PISS (Baltimore) **black
COFFIN DUST (Philadelphia) **death
CORPSE LIGHT (Baltimore) *doom
DARSOMBRA (MD) **metal 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
GRAVE GNOSIS (St. Petersburg, FL) **black
HAXEN (Rhode Island) **black
HELLEBORUS (Manitou Springs, CO) **black
MYOPIC (DC) **death/doom
SAPREMIA (New Jersey) **death
TELOCH VOVIN (NY) **black
TEMPLE OF VOID (Detroit) **doom
WIZARD EYE (PA) **doom
XEUKATRE (Baltimore) **black
I wasn’t able to make it to last year’s Shadow Woods, but our friend Kaptain Carbon was there, and based on his comments and photos (posted here), it looks like it was just as great as it seemed that it would be. This year may be even better….
Ticket sales begin on February 12 at noon Eastern, and you can go here for details about that:
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Awesome lineup! 🙂
“I wasn’t able to make it to last year’s Shadow Woods…”
Does that mean you might make this year’s?
I hope I can — it’s tough for me to plan this far in advance for such a long trip because of my job, but I’d really like to do it if things work out.
Well, if you can make it and need assistance with camping gear or transportation from an airport, give me a shout. I can probably help you out.
Should I be ashamed that I don’t recognize a single name on that lineup? Broadly speaking, what kinds of meta genres are we talking here?
The short genre references alongside each band’s name in the line-up list above should give you a good idea.
I guess I don’t know how to read…