To be completely honest, the current lineup for the seventeenth installment of the annual New England Metal & Hardcore Festival is fairly disappointing. Other than a stellar set of headliners on Saturday, most of the other bands are either relatively unknown or not particularly interesting, with Sunday having an especially weak lineup. A decent chunk of new bands were added to the bill yesterday and more or less continued these sentiments, with the exception of one excellent act. Head over the jump for the new additions and a complete, updated lineup:
Friday, April 17, 2015 (Buy Tickets Here):
Between The Buried and Me
The Red Chord
Code Orange
Overcast
The Atlas Moth
The Banner
Black Mask
Homewrecker
Discourse
Phinehas
Downpour
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 (Buy Tickets Here):
Testament
Exodus
Nuclear Assault (Final New England Appearance)
Nails
Indecision
Incendiary
Suburban Scum
Allegaeon
Rivers of Nihil
The Agonist
Wisdom in Chains
Disgrace
God’s Hate
Thy Will Be Done
No Zodiac (Moved to Saturday from Friday)
Extinction AD
Vice
Absolute Suffering
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 (Buy Tickets Here):
Motionless in White
For Today
The Color Morale
My Ticket Home
Lorna Shore
The Last Ten Seconds of Life
Rotting Out
Death Before Dishonor
Cruel Hand
Rude Awakening
World of Pain
Shark Ethic
Ghost x Ship
Living Laser
Oath
The obvious highlight here is the inclusion of hometown heroes The Red Chord, which marks their second North American concert since entering an extended hiatus (the other being the MA date of Despised Icon’s recent string of reunion shows). But other than that, there are not many amazing bands within this second wave of announcements. Sure, it would be neat to see Code Orange and The Atlas Moth, but for the most part, the few truly great bands on the bill were already announced before now. Hopefully upcoming additions will add a handful of quality acts to Friday and Saturday’s lineup (as Sunday is pretty much a lost cause).
The festival will take place at the Palladium in Worcester, MA for all three days, and we have included links to buy tickets for each day above and for all three days here.