This year will mark the tenth anniversary of the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, the largest metal festival in the United States.

This year's show, presented by ESP, Randall, EMG, and exclusive magazine presenter Metal Maniacs Magazine, will take place the weekend of April 25-27 at the Palladium in Worcester, MA, its home since its inception. Sumerian Records will sponsor the "Summer Slaughter Tour" second stage.

The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival will present Gigantour featuring Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job For A Cowboy and High on Fire on Friday night.

Saturday will be headlined by Dimmu Borgir, Shadows Fall, and Behemoth.

Ministry, Meshuggah, and Nevermore will close out the festival on Sunday night.

Other bands scheduled to perform include:

A Life Once Lost
The Acacia Strain
After the Burial
Animosity
As Blood Runs Black
Belay My Last
Born of Osiris
Brain Drill
Classic Struggle
Cockpunch!
Cold World
Dead to Fall
Demiricous
Dillinger Escape Plan
Disfear
Eluveitie
Elysia
Embrace the End
Emmure
The End
Ensiferum
First Blood
From A Second Story Window
Full Blown Chaos
The Ghost Inside
God Forbid
Hate Eternal
Hemlock
Impending Doom
Keep Of Kalessin
Kid Deposit Triumph
Ligeia
Mensrea
Monstrosity
Municipal Waste
On Broken Wings
Overkill
Recon
Red I Flight
Rhinoceros
Shai Hulud
Shipwreck A.D.
Since the Flood
Skeletonwitch
Sleeping Giant
Soilent Green
Sons of Azrael
Stick to Your Guns
Stray from the Path
Through the Eyes of the Dead
Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganze
Trap Them
Turisas
Tyr
Unexpect
Unholy
Vanna
Veil of Maya
Vital Remains
Waking the Cadaver
Winds of Plague
Withered
Xtyrantx

Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 15th AT 10am. The cost is $47.50 for Friday, $45 for Saturday, $45 for Sunday, or $129 for a three-day pass. Tickets will be available at all Strawberries/FYE Stores, online at tickets.com or by calling (800) 477-6849.


i think its pretty decent this year. ive been saying im not gonna go for a while now but damn, hulud, dillinger, megadeth, vital, trap them, tony danza... IM GOIN!

won't be there

Animosity
Disfear
Ensiferum
Hate Eternal
Keep Of Kalessin
Municipal Waste
Shai Hulud
Soilent Green
Trap Them
Tyr
Unexpect
Vital Remains


making my list of bands I'd like to see

high on fire, meshuggah, and nevermore out of the top...eh

shit fest. NEDF will crush.

Behemoth.
Ministry
Meshuggah
Dillinger Escape Plan
Disfear
Municipal Waste
Trap Them
Vital Remains


eh. doubt I'll be there.

there's plenty of bands I'd like to see but I can almost promise I wont have the money for a ticket
maybe someone will take pity and put Mercury Switch on or something, but what are the odds of that

A couple interesting bands overshadowed by a shit-ton of bad ones. I'm getting bored just looking at the list. I would probably be forced to kill myself if I actually went to this.

i just want to see the goddamn paganfest usa tour. at least nevermore is playing the same day. i want to find out when disfear, trap them, municipal waste, skeletonwitch, and unexpect are playing. hopefully most of them will be on sunday so this will be worth going to.

i may end up buying an evening pass (if they still do those) for sunday, just to see nevermore meshuggah and ministry. i'll see what the rest of the day is like though, i may go for the whole day.

has nevermore said who they will have for a 2nd guitar player?

I thought they've been using Chris Broderick

they were, but he decided to play guitar for megadeth full time....but given that band's track record, it means he'll be looking for a new band next year

anyone still up for going to Montreal for the Pagan Fest?

somewhere kessaris has his penis out thinking about that.

Absolutely going saturday

I really want to go sunday but thats just pain in the ass.

someone convince vital to get anthony to do vocals instead of that douche bag they had at hell, and all produced to sound good on the dvd. and fuck that drummer too by the way. seriously. in the words of that annoying drunk guy...ANNNNTHHHOOOONNNNAAAAYYYYY!!!

Wow. The final NEDF lineup is going to be way better that.

totally going. kind of expensive but good bands and metal fest is always a good time. fuck all the haters. trap them, danza, hulud and megadeth are enough for me. plus i'm going to pagan fest in new york city. YEAH!

dillinger, hate eternal, municipal waste, HULUD, skeleton witch, unexpect, wow dont think im gonna go. We'll see

this is doable, count me in

I would see 34 of these bands.

bump for hot topic sale!!

I love my wallet raped constantly. Thanks sell out cunts

I really wish the organizers of NEMF would put some sort of effort into the lineup, as opposed to simply grabbing whatever tours happen to be trekking across the country during April. Look at MDF, more than half the bands on that bill are flown in specifically for that one show. NEMF is a big lazy bucket.

I see...Disfear, The End, From A Second Story Window, Municipal Waste, Shai Hulud, Soilent Green, Trap Them, Vital Remains, and Meshuggah as the only reasons for me to be there...is it worth the price...prob. not.

Isn't Disfear playing Great Scotts this month? Same with Trap Them?

The only band REALLY making me want to pay the price is Meshuggah..

Municipal Waste. Trap Them, Disfear, and Soilent Green if I'm in a good mood.

Nothing else I even give half a shit about on here.

for anyone that likes Ministry this is their last tour, Al claims to be calling it quits after this... Also Nevermore headlining sets are exceedingly rare...
also interested in seeing the following... however I'm not really sure if I'll have the money for it... so I may have to just go Sunday...

Dimmu Borgir
Behemoth
Brain Drill
Eluveitie
Ensiferum
Keep Of Kalessin
Monstrosity
Municipal Waste
Skeletonwitch
Turisas
Tyr
Unexpect
Veil of Maya
Vital Remains

gag, I don't want to go to this thing, but i really want to see Ensiferum and all those people.

so the pagan fest with Tyr is on Sunday?

A few good bands that would be great to see, but I don't know if I'll go. The amount of waiting involved just doesn't seem like it's worth it

if they did this great and stupid move to put all the good bands on one day I would be all over this place

Sunday night is the night to go. i love Dimmu, but they played last year, and i don't want to support faggoty ass Behemoth again.

Brain Drill
Demiricous
Disfear
Eluveitie
Ensiferum
Keep Of Kalessin
Megadeth (If you want to count Gigantour as part of it)
Monstrosity
Municipal Waste
Nevermore
Overkill
Skeletonwitch
Turisas
Tyr
Veil of Maya (Haven't heard 'em, I don't think...but they share a name with a Cynic song, so they're probably neat)
Vital Remains
Withered

Hmmm...17 bands I wouldn't mind seeing...6 I've already seen...plopping down that much cash for 11 bands, most of which will probably get 20 minutes? Eh.

so no Carcass or At the Gates?

FAIL.

yeah I figure Sunday then. I wanna catch the pagan bands, plus I've never seen Ministry.

anyone from Boston area wanna go ?

DISFEAR/TYR that's it.If Attila was still in KEEP, but,,,,,,,

Okay, add Unexpect to the list I'd like to see. Whoa.