Blackendfest Dispatches from the Van

BLACKENEDFEST Day 3: After The Storm

We sent roving reporter Justina Villanueva on the road with this summer's darkest tour, Blackenedfest. She will be checking in constantly with dispatches from the tour. Catch up with all her tour diaries, as well as a ton of photos at the Blackenedfest hub.

Day 3

Following a riot of a great time at Maryland Death Fest, the Blackened Fest tour made its stop at one of the worst venues on the east coast: Ground Zero in South Carolina.
Highlights after the jump.

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Blackendfest Dispatches from the Van

BLACKENEDFEST DAY 2: MARYLAND DEATH FEST

We sent roving reporter Justina Villanueva on the road with this summer's darkest tour, Blackenedfest. She will be checking in constantly with dispatches from the tour. Catch up with all her tour diaries, as well as a ton of photos at the Blackenedfest hub.

Day 2

Maryland Death Fest
It's a time to run into friends from home and friends you forgot existed. For me, there wasn't one band that disappointed. I had already seen Pigsty and Jig-ai last weekend in Brooklyn. The second dosage was even better. My favorite band on the indoor stage was Sayyadina. They are a Swedish three piece with raw aggression.

Cattle Decap Spit
Travis from Cattle is known for spitting up into the air and catching it with his mouth. But, on May 22, a giant clammy missed his mouth and landed on the side of my shirt. It was a gnarly multi-tint, phlegm colored hunk of spit. I haven't showered in a couple days, but I did go into the bathroom and wash it off with soap. I didn't mind having a half wet shirt for the rest of MDF since it was a predicable Baltimore summer day. (more…)

Blackendfest Dispatches from the Van

DAY 1: MAYHEM IN NEW YORK CITY

We sent roving reporter Justina Villanueva on the road with this summer's darkest tour, Blackenedfest. She will be checking in constantly with dispatches from the tour. Catch up with all her tour diaries, as well as a ton of photos at the Blackenedfest hub.

Day 1

First lesson of the tour: If the tour manager gives you a photo pass, don't loose it.
I got to Irving Plaza 5 hours after I said I would have. After spending hours staring at my luggage because I could not do the whole toiletry Tetris shuffle, I spent 90 minutes in traffic. By the time I got to the venue I was on another planet. Which explains why when Cartel (tour manager) handed me my photo/crew pass I put it "somewhere" and didn't see it for the rest of the night. And, because a tour laminate is not good enough for Irving Plaza crew to recognize someone as part of the tour, I had to run around during Lair of Minotaur looking for Cartel to fix my mess. But, don't worry, Lair of Minotaur will be catching up with the tour again in a couple weeks. I'll get pictures of them then.

Marduk
Everyone on the tour (bands and crew) have heard different stories and has begun to speculate their own version of what could be the issue. Including the ol' "maybe they're not even a real band" joke. All I can tell anyone is that I really don't know when/if they will join the tour. (more…)

Free Swag The Hook Up

Win A Pair of Tickets to BLACKENEDFEST (Mayhem, Marduk, Cephalic Carnage) – A Winner For Every Stop!

Win Tickets To BlackenedfestYou know that when Metal Injection sponsors a tour, we hook up our junkies, and Blackendfest is no different. The trek, which features the inventors of grim, MAYHEM along with MARDUK, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION and WITHERED will make its way across the country (and into Canada) and we're giving away a pair of tickets to each stop. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post, copying and pasting the date and location for the show you'd like to attend, and feel free to include a sentence with a goofy reason for why should win. But hurry up, this contest only lasts one week. We will be picking winners next weekend…

May 21 – The Fillmore at Irving Plaza – New York, NY
May 23 – Ground Zero – Spartanburg, SC
May 24 – Club Firestone – Orlando, FL
May 26 – Numbers – Houston, TX
May 27 – The White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX
May 28 – Chic’s – El Paso, TX
May 29 – Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
May 30 – Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ
May 31 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
June 2 – House of Blues – Hollywood, CA
June 3 – DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
June 4 – Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR
June 5 – Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
June 6 – Knitting Factory Concert House – Boise, ID
June 7 – Cervantes Masterpiece – Denver, CO
June 9 – Station 4 – St Paul, MN
June 11 – House Of Blues – Chicago, IL
June 12 – Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH
June 13 – The Majestic Theater – Detroit, MI
June 14 – The Opera House – Toronto, ONT
June 15 – Les Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC

Tour Dates

Maryland Death Fest daily lineups revealed, start planning your trip to Baltimore

For once, a series has made it to the seventh installment without sucking. Maryland Death Fest has announced this year's daily lineups, with over 50 bands in three days. Any self-respecting headbanger better start calling up those long-lost relatives in the Baltimore area and asking for a place to crash from May 22-24.

MAYHEM, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, NAPALM DEATH, ATHEIST, PIG DESTROYER, THE RED CHORD, TRAP THEM, MISERY INDEX and SIGH are just some of the big names appearing, plus a shit-ton of potentially awesome bands from all over the metal scale. Tickets are already on sale, and the complete lineup (plus footage of DYING FETUS from last year's fest) are after the jump for your viewing pleasure. (more…)

Tour Dates

DESPISED ICON announce August Euro-tour with CEPHALIC CARNAGE

DESPISED ICON have announced European tour in August with CEPHALIC CARNAGE. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Aug. 14 – Germany, Dinkelsbühl @ Summer Breeze
Aug. 15 – Czech Republic, Jaromer @ Brutal Assault
Aug. 16 – Germany, Essen @ Turock
Aug. 17 – UK, Hull @ The Welly Club, Horror Fest
Aug. 18 – UK, Cardiff @ Clwb ifwr bach
Aug. 19 – UK, London @ The Borderline
Aug. 20 – Holland, Rotterdam @ Baroeg
Aug. 21 – Germany, Hamburg @ Hafenklang
Aug. 22 – Germany, Karlsruhe @ Stadtmitte
Aug. 23 – Switzerland, Muotathal @ Mountains of Death Fest
Aug. 25 – Portugal, Oporto Porto Rio (Despised only)

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