NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL To Celebrate 15th Anniversary 2013 Installment Of Iconic Fest Confirmed

MassConcerts proudly presents the first details for NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL 2013, today confirming the dates and preliminary list of bands for this year’s occurrence of the long-running annual event.

For the 2013 installment, the NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL will once again overthrow the historic venue, The Palladium, in Worcester, Massachusetts, this year marking the 15th anniversary of the iconic weekend-long gathering! The festivities will commence with a pre-party on April 18th, 2013 and the three official days of the fest following on the 19th, 20th, and 21st.

Commented the festival’s founder Scott Lee of MassConcerts: “I am excited with how far we have come and am ecstatic for this to be on our 15th year! It has been a long, interesting journey. We always try to make it a memorable event and we really hope you all enjoy the festival this year.”

With more than forty acts from all realms of the extreme music world already set to storm the two stages of NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL XV -- and with many more to be announced in the coming weeks -- the confirmed headliners for the event will include Hatebreed, Opeth and Suicidal Tendencies, as well as legendary thrash titans Anthrax performing their Among The Living album in its entirety, as part of their headlining spot on the Metal Alliance Tour.


View the full list of bands set to confirm this year below. Tickets for the event will go on sale next Wednesday, January 16th.


NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL XV:

Anthrax

Hatebreed

Opeth

Suicidal Tendencies

After The Burial

Alpha & Omega

Antagonist AD

Ark Of The Covenant

Black Breath

Born Of Osiris

The Contortionist

Dead By Wednesday

Death Before Dishonor

Ensiferum

Erra

Exodus

Expire

Fit For An Autopsy

Heidevolk

Hellsot

Holy Grail

I Declare War

Incendiary

Katatonia

Legion

The Mongoloids

Mother Of Mercy

Municipal Waste

No Mercy

Power Trip

Rude Awakening

Saving Grace

Shadows Fall

Suburban Scum

Those Who Fear

Trap Them

Trollfest

Twitching Tongues

Tyr

Within The Ruins

Xibalba



Since 1999, the NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL has showcased a vast array of metal and hardcore acts across two stages, while also providing merchandising and promotional areas for record labels and other vendors, at Worcester, Massachusetts’ massive venue The Palladium.

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Rumpelstiltskin Grinder – Ghost Maker

With the impending release of Philly’s own Rumpelstiltskin Grinder’s third full length offering on Candlelight Records, the listener will be glad they took the time to distill their own brand of crushing riffs and beat down brew for the thirsty to be pummeled with!

 The group’s unique cross-over and multi-genre sound is taken to another level with Ghost Maker in speed, complexity, anger and attack, being unleashed on June 19th.

 Song after song will have you pumped, pacing and ready to explode as the foursome blow beats and riffs out of the speakers, wanting to stage dive from the closest object to jump from.

 Energy packed and full of diversity, Ghost Maker will be an instant “Must Have” for long time fans and newer fans that want a solid purchase.

 Songs like the title track, Ghost Maker, Nightworms, Fucking Wild and an aptly named Dripping with Venom will satisfy a listener’s inner destructive id and urge it’s release.

 Others tracks, like Cold Haunting Death and A Lurking Thief change pace slightly, but are no less effective in delivering a death blow to the senses.

 The circle pit will be lively, when You’ve been Had and Iron Jaw break out! This will see long hairs, skins and mohawk quaffed guys and girls flailing limbs and flying from the stage for the duration.

Get Out of My Grave is an eviction notice that is posted right between your eyes! Clocking in at 4:42 it’s got the force and strength to do it all on it’s own.

 The frolicking Run Through the Bastards, will do just that! A hammer down, hard hitting serving of fuck you up that for 5:25 will be a test of pit endurance for some and a sweat starter for others. This song is a Gem that they should play live every night!

The release ends with Desert Goblins, as it fades into a sunset sure to bring more activity than what first began.

This is a superior effort from RG that takes their previous full length and Split releases and amps it up and nails you down with a genuine fury that most can only briefly obtain.

These guys spread their violent form of Brotherly Love in a well constructed and well produced release that separates them from those that ape to a specific kind of genre and instead, draws in listeners of many various forms of Metal and all for the better!

Dig It!!!

--Big