Official press release:
Shadow Woods Metal Fest, the Mid-Atlantic’s only open-air camping metal party, announces several updates to this September’s installment of the event, including the addition of Mantar, Sacrificial Blood, and more.
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Shadow Woods Metal Fest has added German metal duo, Mantar, for a special appearance Thursday, September 15th. The pair joins the mysterious Ghost Bath, Canada’s Numenoren, Baltimore’s Darsombra and several others to kick-off the three-day event, which continues through the morning of Sunday, September 18th at Camp Hidden Valley, in White Hall, Maryland. Now in its second year, Shadow Woods Metal Fest will host forty-one metal bands, representing diverse subgenres, on three stages at the same charming Summer camp where the fest was held previously.
Festival organizer Mary Spiro of Metallomusikum.com / Shadow Woods Productions LLC says:
“Mantar, who will be on tour with Cobalt this fall, had a free day that Thursday that fit perfectly into the schedule. Mantar blew everyone’s mind at the 2015 Maryland Deathfest, and Shadow Woods Metal Fest is extremely excited and deeply honored to have them help launch our second party in the woods.”
The entire festival lineup is stacked. Friday night headliners include Brooklyn’s post black metal pillagers Tombs, Mongolian folk metal warriors Tengger Cavalry, Detroit’s horror-death conjurers Acid Witch, and a special reunion performance from Philly’s blackened doom two-piece Sadgiqacea. On Saturday, black-thrash alchemists Blood Storm, Chicago’s mystic black metal kings Empyreus, and Maryland’s doom metal godfather Scott “Wino” Weinrich and friends from Faith In Jane will headline Saturday night. The fest will close that night with the return of Maine’s black metal-blues shredders, Zud.
This year’s Shadow Woods Metal Fest lineup also boasts several acts that have never performed on the East Coast, such as the blackened space-rock pair Lotus Thief from San Francisco, which features Otrebor of Botanist on drums, and Colorado’s Helleborus, powered by the Houseman brothers (Akhenaten; ex-Execration), who specializes in psychedelic black metal tinged with sexual mysticism. The complete lineup (listed below) surpasses the ferocity of the fest’s inaugural installment in both diversity and scope of metal styles.
Grimoire Records, the Baltimore-based hybrid recording and distribution label founded in February 2013, has become a co-producer with Shadow Woods Productions, LLC, and has several bands featured throughout the weekend, including Corpse Light, Genevieve, Myopic, and Torrid Husk. Promotional help comes from partners in Lokvlt Productions out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Leftover Pizza Productions from Frederick, Maryland, as well as Washington, DC area metal hype-machine LCnK Promotions and online metal blog Metal Junkie Zine.
Attendees will be able to munch of a plethora of food choices throughout the weekend including the return of the high octane Zeke’s Coffee, vegan selections from Headbangin’ Hotdogs, gourmet snacks from Baltimore’s Clementine, and more traditional fair foods from Funtastic Foods and Pond View Pit Beef. Along with sponsors Grimoire Records, vendors so far this year featured in the Hall Stage building include Runk the Skunk Jewelry, FTG Illustrations, Barnacle Bones Bindery, FiberParty KnitWorks, Mount Vernon Body Art and a variety of other music and arts producers. Yoga sessions will again be held every morning for those willing to brave a downward dog with a hangover and other workshops TBA have also been planned. The fest is BYOB and is 21 and up only.
Weekend Passes for Shadow Woods Metal Fest are available for $130 at BrownPaperTickets.com.
Tent camping is included with the weekend pass. People who want to reserve cabin beds can do so for an additional $20 for the duration of the fest. Only 400 weekend passes will be available and about one-third have sold so far. A limited number of day passes will go on sale in August.
Shadow Woods Metal Fest 2016 complete lineup:
A Sound Of THunder
Athame
At The Graves
Acid Witch
Blood Storm
Bound By The Grave
Cemetery Filth
Cemetery Piss
Coffin Dust
Corpse Light
Darsombra
Destroyer Of Light
Empyreus
Faith In Jane
Genevieve
Ghost Bath
Grave Gnosis
Haxen
Helgamite
Helleborus
Heron
Horseskull
Lotus Thief
Mantar
Myopic
Numenorean
Sadgiqacea
Sadistic Vision
Sapremia
Surgeon
Teloch Vovin
Temple Of Void
Tengger Cavalry
T.O.M.B.
Tombs
Torrid Husk
Windfaerer
Wizard Eye
Xeukatre
Zud
