As everyone knows, almost all of the awesome metal tours and festivals take place over in Europe.  They’ve got Wacken Open Air in Germany, Download Festival at Donnington Park in England, Metalcamp in Slovenia, and what seems like millions of others — all with the most incredible lineups imaginable.  Meanwhile, the rest of us are pretty much just forced to contend with tours that have a far-too-high ratio of shitty-to-good, like Ozzfest or the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival.

Well, with a few exceptions, and probably the biggest exception each year is the Maryland Deathfest.  This weekend-long metal party is held annually in the city of Baltimore, which as everyone knows was named for the seminal 1970s metal band Sir Lord Baltimore.

This year, the Deathfest is taking place between the 24th-27th of May, and tickets are available for three out of those four days.  As we’ve recently discussed, Morgion had to pull out of their scheduled performance, but there is still a fuckton and a half of awesomeness in the lineup.

**Update (3 May 2012) — the official time-slot schedule has been released; details below**

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**Update (22 May 2012) — the image shown above is the cover of the official MDF survival guide (program of events, etc.) which will be handed out upon your arrival at the venue, courtesy Invisible Oranges.** 

The four-day passes, as well as single-day passes for Thursday, are entirely sold out, but you can visit this page to order tickets: the three-day pass is $150, or single-day tickets are available for Friday ($50), Saturday and Sunday ($52 each).

Thursday 24 May 2012 (Completely and Utterly SOLD OUT)

Doors @ 4pm

Main Room
Extermination Angel 4:45 – 5:10
Die Pigeon Die 5:25 – 5:50
Needful Things 6:05 – 6:40
Rorschach 6:55 – 7:40
Dying Fetus 7:55 – 8:40
Absu 8:55 – 9:40
Eyehategod 9:55 – 10:45
Agalloch 11:00 – 12:00
Autopsy 12:15 – end

Friday 25 May 2012

Doors @ 3pm

Outside Stage 1
Demigod 5:40 – 6:20
Artillery 7:15 – 8:10
Godflesh 9:30 – 10:40

Outside Stage 2
Macabre 6:20 – 7:10
Napalm Death 8:25 – 9:25

Main Room
Castevet 3:30 – 4:00
Nashgul 4:15 – 4:45
Ghoul 5:00 – 5:40
Today is the Day 6:10 – 6:55
Negura Bunget 7:25 – 8:25
Unsane 10:40 – 11:25
Setherial 11:40 – 12:25
Nasum 12:40 – end

Saturday 26 May 2012

Doors @ 12pm

Outside Stage 1
October 31 4:30 – 5:00
Deviated Instinct 5:50 – 6:40
Confessor 7:30 – 8:20
Morbid Angel 9:30 – 10:40

Outside Stage 2
Hellbastard 3:25 – 4:10
Morbid Saint 5:00 – 5:45
Anvil 6:40 – 7:30
Brujeria 8:25 – 9:25

Main Room
Infernal Stronghold 12:30 – 1:00
Bloody Phoenix 1:15 – 1:45
Looking for an Answer 2:00 – 2:35
Dragged into Sunlight 2:55 – 3:25
Black Witchery 3:50 – 4:35
The Devil’s Blood 5:45 – 6:30
Archgoat 6:45 – 7:30
Horna 7:45 – 8:30
Noothgrush 8:45 – 9:30
Tsjuder 10:35 – 11:25
Haemorrhage 11:40 – 12:25
Winter 12:40 – end

Sunday 27 May 2012

Doors @ 1pm

Outside Stage 1
Demonical 4:00 – 4:40
Church of Misery 5:30 – 6:20
Suffocation 7:20 – 8:10
Electric Wizard 9:30 – 10:40

Outside Stage 2
Disma 3:15 – 3:55
Morgoth 4:45 – 5:30
Pentagram (Chile) 6:25 – 7:15
Saint Vitus 8:15 – 9:20

Main Room
Backslider 1:30 – 2:00
Coke Bust 2:15 – 2:45
Agents of Abhorrence 3:00 – 3:30
Cough 3:45 – 4:25
Rwake 4:40 – 5:20
Ulcerate 5:40 – 6:25
YOB 6:40 – 7:25
Nausea 7:40 – 8:15
Sargeist 10:35 – 11:20
Bethlehem 11:35 – 12:25
Mortuary Drape 12:40 – end

More info: MDF Official Website, Facebook page