Canada's best new offering serves up a solid slab of huge acts, with a focus on doom, thrash, and post-metal.
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Litha Cascadia
Chehalis, WA
Formerly Thirst For Light, this most Cascadian of fests is a wonderfully hippie-esque camping bash with the styles you would expect.
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Electric Funeral Fest
Denver, CO
Doom descends on Denver for this dreadful dance
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Clairvoyance Fest
Lexington, KY
This first-ever single day extravaganza brings death and doom to the heart of bourbon country.
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Blood of the Wolf
Lexington, KY
Now five years running, BOTW is almost as epic as the game with which it shares an acronym.
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Denver Hex
Denver, CO
Deepen your post-Labor Day depression with the Mile High City's rock and doom showcase
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Heavy Mountain
Asheville, NC
North Carolina's beer mecca hosts this death-infused doom celebration, replete with a dose of help from the state's finest acts.
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Messe des Morts
Montreal, QC
Curated by Sepulchral Productions, this mass of the dead highlights atmospheric black metal in all its glory.
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70,000 Tons of Metal
Ft Lauderdale, FL
Annual cruise from Florida featuring 60 bands and 20 hours of music each day. Power, melodeath, thrash, and folk light the way for one of the biggest metal parties on the planet.
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Heavy Montreal
Montreal, QC
Canada's biggest Euro-style fest dishes out plenty of superb acts, and even more unfortunate ones.
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Brutal Alberta
Calgary, AB
Filthy death metal reigns supreme atop the Canadian Prarie
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Trve Brewing Bacchanalia
Denver, CO
The country's most metal brewery holds its annual bacchanal for a weekend each May, with an eclectic mix of the the beer slingers' favorites.
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Stardust
Brooklyn, NY
The venerable NYC promoter brings back its single-day death and black metal showcase.
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Steel & Bone
Pittsburgh, PA
Yet another metallic bash in the gem of Pennsylvania will see its first year hosting the best new death metal this continent has to offer
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Chicago Domination
Chicago, IL
Brutal. Slamming. Death Metal.
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Quebec Deathfest
Montreal, QC
The French Canadian Deathfest brings its impolite offerings to the frosbitten north with a spattering of hometown favorites.