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Omnivortex's style sounds closet to Ulcerate, to my ear. A bit dissonant and hyper-fast drumming. Just a bit blackened in vox.

Auriferous Flame - Ardor for Black Mastery This scratches the black metal itch. The riffs are great. The production is pretty tight for the modern genre. However, there is enough play in the intensity, speed/space, often building or sweeping you into another. I'd skip over track 3, at least for first listen. I personally kind of enjoy the call it experimentation.

just as a follow up. I'd say Soundstage's trial on doing a fest inside and outside the club in the block off street was a pretty big success in my opinion. Beats the hell out of having to walk up and back to the Edison lot and allows for in and out so you can get food where you want. There was also shade in various places to be had outside. I often sat in the bar tent on the provided folding chairs sipping a beer, especially when I was only mildly interested in who was playing. Saw 23 sets in all. Some major highlights for me were Outer Heaven, Hulder (who killed it as the closer), S'bogg, Spectral Wound and Dying Fetus (sounding better than I'd heard them before). Lots of bands were first for me, and some surprises were Cloak, Devil Master (fun despite me having to laugh at their capes). Plenty of other sets I enjoyed, but may not rush to see again. I missed a few I wished I caught (e.g. Tombs), but I'm old and there is only so much I could last.

Given this forum isn't highly trafficked, I would suggest trying to find a group on FB for your local metal scene. Here in Toronto there are a few FB groups for people into metal, talking about shows, the local scene, etc. It is a modern method for meeting people local to you into the same scene. Good luck!

Seen the set times are listed now. FRIDAY, MAY 26 Hell Stage (Baltimore Soundstage) 5 p.m. doors 6:00-6:25 p.m. Total Maniac 6:40-7:05 p.m. Bastard Cross 7:20-7:50 p.m. Withered 8:05-8:35 p.m. Kontusion 8:55-9:40 p.m. Devil Master 10:00-10:45 p.m. Warhorse 11:15 p.m.-12:45 a.m. Candlemass SATURDAY, MAY 27 Harbor Stage (Market Place) 12 p.m. doors 2:00-2:45 p.m. Visceral Discharge 3:15-4:00 p.m. Escuela Grind 4:30-5:15 p.m. Sanguisugabogg 6:15-7:00 p.m. Cephalic Carnage 7:30-8:30 p.m. Dying Fetus 9:00-10:30 p.m. Cannibal Corpse Hell Stage 12 p.m. doors 2:50-3:20 p.m. Cemetery Piss 3:35-4:05 p.m. Outer Heaven 4:20-4:50 p.m. Deceased 5:05-5:35 p.m. Cloak 5:50-6:20 p.m. Necrofier 6:35-7:10 p.m. Black Tusk 7:25-8:00 p.m. Jarhead Fertilizer 8:15-9:00 p.m. Dwarves 10:50-11:40 p.m. Acid Witch 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m. Deadguy Angels in Hell (Angels Rock Bar) 9 p.m. doors 9:00-10:30 p.m. Cloak LP listening party 10:30-11:00 p.m. Restless Spirit 11:20-11:50 p.m. Castle Freak 12:10-1:00 a.m. Tombs SUNDAY, MAY 28 Harbor Stage 12 p.m. doors 2:00-2:45 p.m. Internal Bleeding 3:15-4:00 p.m. Goatwhore 4:30-5:15 p.m. Misery Index 6:05-7:00 p.m. Pig Destroyer 7:30-8:30 p.m. Napalm Death 9:00-10:30 p.m. High on Fire Hell Stage 12 p.m. doors 2:50-3:20 p.m. Innoculation 3:35-4:05 p.m. Sadistic Ritual 4:20-4:50 p.m. Demiser 5:05-5:35 p.m. Cloud Rat 5:50-6:20 p.m. Vomit Forth 6:35-7:10 p.m. Spirit Adrift 7:25-8:00 p.m. Spectral Wound 8:15-9:00 p.m. Inter Arma 10:50-11:40 p.m. Undeath 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m. Hulder Angels in Hell 9 p.m. doors 9:00-10:30 p.m. DJ Candy Corn 10:30-11:00 p.m. Ninth Realm 11:20-11:50 p.m. Sonja 12:10-1:00 a.m. Tower https://i0.wp.com/live-metal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/345880131_262917899438536_5498542120016803016_n.jpg?resize=768%2C961&ssl=1

I've seen quite a bit. Many countries in western Europe, Brazil, numerous central American countries, Japan, 43/50 US states, 4 Canadian provinces. My favorite to date was Costa Rica. Warm people, gorgeous countryside, tons of wildlife, good food.

This shows which bands on which dates and stages.

LMK if you are going Surge and I'll say hi, maybe grab a beer. A lot of your picks are mine as well. I've never seen CC live, so even though I've never been a fan I am a bit intrigued to see at least part of their set. Hulder Vomit Forth Undeath Spectral Wound (last time I saw them the mix was awful, all vocals no guitar, so want to see it better) Outer-Heaven curious to see 'Bogg live last time I saw Napalm Death I quite enjoyed them

I heard the title track a few times on Sirius's Liquid Metal channel while visiting my family in Washington. It is a huge meh. I don't think I'll bother listening to more.

Anyone else going to Hell in the Harbor? There is no MDF this year so it looks like Soundstage organized an MDF-lite. I am all booked to go. To be honest, I actually like the Milwaukee Metalfest lineup a bit better, but there is still a lot of good bands on this lineup and I didn't see MM announcement till after I booked. https://hellintheharbor.com/ readable lineup: Full Lineup:Cannibal Corpse, High On Fire, Dying Fetus, Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, Hulder, Deadguy, Cephalic Carnage, Dwarves, Misery Index, Goatwhore, Undeath, Acid Witch, Sanguisugaboog, Spectral Wound, Inter Arma, Escuela Grind, Spirit Adrift, Visceral Disgorge, Internal Bleeding, Deaf Club, Jarhead Fertilizer, Necrofier, Vomit Forth, Cloak, Cloud Rat, Deceased, Outer Heaven, Demiser, Sadistic Ritual, Cemetery Piss, Inoculation.

I lived in the NYC area for 12 years, 5 of which I lived in Manhattan. I barely drove inside Manhattan when I lived there preferring mass transit. In fact I sold my car when I moved from the west coast. I lived in LA for a summer (in SoCal for 6 years) and drove everyday and that traffic from I-5 to the 10 sucked! Almost as bad is I84 in downtown Portland. That city grew way faster than the city planned. Traffic here in Toronto is pretty horrible as well, and the road conditions are awful too. The city/province collects a shit-ton of taxes that never seem to materialize into anything good, be it on socialized health care (which is piss poor regardless of what they tell you), infrastructure projects, etc. They just seem to start project and spend endless amounts of money that don't ever finish. If the same happened in NYC, there would be mass riots. Back to traffic... I've driven in dozens of different countries on at least 3 different continents. I'd never want to drive in urban India, that is for sure! I've driven in Manhattan and it isn't scary it is just insufferably slow with congested. It takes hours to get out of the city on a long weekend. I prefer to drove in the woods these days.

I would assume that MegaDave knows how this works and just says stuff to the media to get the talk going again. Cheap advertisement to help sales. No such thing as bad publicity and all.

Roots was the first Sepultura album I had/heard. At that time, I was only casually into metal, more into heavier side of alternative and industrial (early college days). I think I heard the title track somewhere and picked it up out of curiosity. It has a couple of good tracks but I couldn't get into it on the whole. It wouldn't be to more than a decade later I got the itch to listen to Beneath the Remains and Chaos A.D., the prior being by far my favorite. BtR is the only Sepultura album I need.

Inquisition is a cool name, even if the dude is into kiddie porn. Meshuggah, while I like the band a lot, is a pretty stupid name IMO. I mean, a yiddish word for a Swedish extreme metal band?! I recently saw a Goatpenis patch that was about as offensive as they come these days. Pretty funny. Saw a dude at MDF wearing this back patch last year. Thought it was pretty funny.

Where did you get it? I am a bit of a jigsaw nut.