At the end, the band members each meekly thanked the couple dozen people who were now drinking on the lawn after set-up. Each of the band’s songs ended with a pause in silence as if to muster up the courage to launch into the next one. The female shrieks of Mers Sumida were fitting to the music, which was grinding and emotionally exhausting. The back lots, which snaked around various trails, were all full, and campers began to be told to just set up anywhere, as long as it wasn’t in the middle of the field stage. The band took the stage while campers trickled in to set up their tents around the stage. Though, like many of the bands at the festival, Black Table is part of the unsigned club, they were a band whose merch consisted of gorgeous vinyl with stellar design. For the last weekend in September, however, more than 200 metal fans and adventurous spirits were sprawled throughout its 180 acres to celebrate darkness and fair weather chaos.īlack Table is a New Jersey-based band who is tagged as post black on their Metal Archives page. Other than that, Camp Hidden Valley offers educational programs for the Boys and Girls Club serving the greater Baltimore area. Camp Hidden Valley usually plays host to numerous day camps for children, with its scariest events being schlocky haunted trails during Halloween. Another sign pointing in the direction of the festival was propped against a decorative bench in front of a remote house with a manicured lawn. Upon arriving, the entrance to the camp was signaled by a printed flyer duct-taped to a cone, obscured by a bush. Second, the weather was supposed to be gorgeous and, for the cooling months of early autumn, in the low ’60s in temperature, a perfect time to feel the chill of heavy metal. This was the inaugural event for a team of promoters and record labels who had little experience in hosting someting of this size and interest level. While not the only outdoor metal festival, Shadow Woods offered an opportunity for America to mimic an event that Europe has done for decades. First and foremost, it was a metal festival in a remote campground outside of Baltimore. There were many things to be excited about at Shadow Woods Festival. Kaptain Carbon writes for Tape Wyrm ( ) and Hollywood Metal ( ) and also moderates Reddit’s metal subreddit r/metal.) All photographs in this post, most of which appear at the end of the review, were taken by Kaptain Carbon as well. (A long time has passed - two years and 11 months to be exact - since we last featured the writing of Kaptain Carbon at our site, but he has returned with this review of the first Shadow Woods Metal Festival, which took place on September 25-27, 2015, in White Hall, Maryland.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |