Maryland Deathfest Organizers To Launch New York City Fest

Lumber Jack Off · Post by **Lumber Jack Off** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:20 pm

Maryland Deathfest Organizers To Launch New York City Festival In May

The organizers of the annual Maryland Deathfest, which will take place from May 22nd to 24th at Sonar in Baltimore, MD, have announced that theyâ€™ll be having a second smaller festival, dubbed the Auditory Assault Festival, the weekend before (May 16th/17th) in New York City with some of the bandâ€™s playing MDF. Band and venue information is expected to be announced shortly, and you can stay up to date at the festivalâ€™s official MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/auditoryassaultfestnyc

The organizers also commented on the creation of the festival with the following:

â€œThe first Auditory Assault took place at the end of 2006 in Baltimore, but since then weâ€™ve decided to resurrect the name and have a 2 day event in New York City on the weekend before Maryland Deathfest. The primary focus of Auditory Assault is to provide numerous bands playing MDF a chance to play a kick ass event in New York City as well. Weâ€™re not attempting to put this on the same level as Maryland Deathfest and expect to confirm roughly 15-20 bands, half of which will likely be MDF bands looking for more shows.

Currently we arenâ€™t accepting any booking inquiries. Roughly half of the bands weâ€™re going to confirm are already confirmed. These bands will be announced in the next few days.â€

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:21 am

O RLY!

Bodom J · Post by **Bodom J** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:33 am

FUCK. i'm hoping to hit up a festival or something this summer. shooting for paganfest but it is probably sold out

Lumber Jack Off · Post by **Lumber Jack Off** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:48 am

paganfest isn't even finalized yet.

Bodom J · Post by **Bodom J** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:46 am

sweet

whitemike · Post by **whitemike** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:38 am

Cool I'll keep an eye on this, might actually go!

MetalStrikesDown · Post by **MetalStrikesDown** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:11 pm

FUck, they should do one in Chicago, just as big as Maryland Deathfest. They would sell that shit out.

Lumber Jack Off · Post by **Lumber Jack Off** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:41 pm

dont you guys already have Central Illinois Metalfest ?

MetalStrikesDown · Post by **MetalStrikesDown** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:33 am

We have it but there are usually only 4-5 bands that are really worth seeing, I am not going to three days of shit in order to see what I want. Maryland Deathfest fucking owns all.

Villecore · Post by **Villecore** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:24 pm

MetalStrikesDown wrote:We have it but there are usually only 4-5 bands that are really worth seeing, I am not going to three days of shit in order to see what I want. Maryland Deathfest fucking owns all.

Even a quarter of this year's lineup would be very cool. And Boston to NYC is much easier than Boston to Baltimore!

I'll still wind up going both times though.