{"id":319,"date":"2011-05-25T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicurbanism\/?p=319"},"modified":"2012-11-11T04:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T04:16:30","slug":"getting-ready-for-maryland-deathfest-part-2-scanning-the-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/2011\/05\/25\/getting-ready-for-maryland-deathfest-part-2-scanning-the-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"getting ready for Maryland Deathfest, part 2: scanning the schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, which bands to see? \u00a0I know a handful of the older ones from having listened to and seen them in concert 20 or more years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Still, there’s much catching up to do, and I’ve been digesting all the preparatory material I can find: the\u00a0Inverted Umlaut podcast<\/a>, the\u00a0Invisible Oranges program guide,<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Baltimore City Paper cover story<\/a>.\u00a0 My friend and festival companion Francesco and I have chosen Friday and Sunday as the dates we’ll be attending.\u00a0 Here’s what we can look forward to:<\/p>\n

Day 1: Thursday, May 26<\/span><\/strong>
\nWITCHAVEN – 4:45 – 5:15
\nSHITSTORM – 5:30 – 5:55
\nNOISEAR – 6:10 – 6:40
\nMIASMAL – 6:55 – 7:30
\nLACK OF INTEREST – 7:45 – 8:20
\nFLESH PARADE – 8:35 – 9:10
\nEXTORTION – 9:25 – 10:00
\nBUZZOV*EN – 10:15 – 11:00
\nTRAGEDY – 11:15 – 12:00 CATHEDRAL – 12:15 – end<\/p>\n

We’re not attending this date, but I’d love to see\u00a0Tragedy<\/strong>, the latest incarnation of a Memphis crust-punk\/metal collective that goes back to the early 90s.\u00a0 They started out as Cop Out, an unwashed, screamy-meemy outfit that I saw play in Santa Barbara with the Yah Mos (predecessors of !!!) and Jara (predecessors of my old band Born and Razed).\u00a0 Then they became a smaller unit, took on a bona-fide long-hair metal guitarists, and got ridiculously heavy as His Hero Is Gone.\u00a0 (Coincidentally, Born and Razed played with His Hero Is Gone and Still Life in Baltimore, in front of 10 people at a garage called the Shuffle House back in 1995.)\u00a0 Now they’re older, their hair is shorter, but they’re still as beefy and mighty as they used to be.<\/p>\n