New England Metal and Hardcore Festival

The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival was an annual festival held in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It was a weekend-long concert of heavy metal and hardcore punk bands along with a merchandising and promotional area for record labels and other vendors. It had been held in the Worcester Palladium since its inception in 1999.

Time line

1999 – NEMHF I

GWAR, Morbid Angel, Isis, Manowar, Overkill, Napalm Death, Converge, Diecast, Deicide, Vital Remains, Gwar, Madball, Crossthread, Non Compos, God Stands Still

The headliners were Morbid Angel and Napalm Death on the 1st night, Gwar and Deicide on the 2nd night, and Manowar and Earth Crisis on the 3rd night. It was originally supposed to be The Misfits instead of Manowar, which is why there was so much hardcore on day 3, but The Misfits canceled and they got Manowar as the replacement headliner.

2000 – NEMHF II

Friday, February 11, 2000 – Machine Head, Six Feet Under, Reveille, Shadows Fall, Immolation, Skarhead, 7th Rail Crew, Hate Machine, Gangsta Bitch Barbie, Primer 55, Simple, Buried Alive, Rain Fell Within, 100 Demons, Unearth, Scrape, Sworn Enemy, 6 Thirty 7, Long Winter Stare, Havoc, Hateplow, Eastcide, Shed, R22, Colepitz, Nok, Hypnotic Kick, Dead Trees Sway, Morgan 2, Neck, Blindside, Trustfall

Saturday, February 12, 2000 – The Misfits, Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, Snapcase, Vision of Disorder, Candiria, Reach The Sky, Isis, Indecision, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dying Fetus, Turmoil, Pessimist, Diecast, Grade, Dissolve, All That Remains, Drowning Man, Step Kings, Gargantua Soul, Internal Bleeding, Maudlin of the Well, Torn Assunder, Chimaira, Deceased, The Hope Conspiracy, Blood Has Been Shed, Diabolic, Himsa, Skinless, Killswitch Engage, Aftershock, Suffer, Old Man Gloom, Cannae, Catheter, Excoriate, Drag Body, Death Threat, In My Eyes, Ground Zero, Recoil band, Haste, Spite, Onslaught, Humans Being, God Dethroned, Toxic Field Mice, Delvic, Code 7, Crash Davis, In Pieces, Anal Cunt, Hatebreed

2001 – NEMHF III

Cannibal Corpse, wasteform, Dimmu Borgir, Nile, The Haunted, Lamb of God, Malevolent Creation, Catastrophic (ex-Obituary), Monstrosity, Meshuggah, Amorphis, Opeth, Shadows Fall, Dying Fetus, Gorguts, God Forbid, Zao, Living Sacrifice, All Out War, Diecast, Skinless, Noctuary, All That Remains, Poison the Well, God Below, Exhumed, Cannae, The Hope Conspiracy, Killswitch Engage, Nullset, Blood Has Been Shed, and Vital Remains, Suffocation, Held Under, Mushmouth, Santa Sangre. Zircon

2002 – NEMHF IV

In Flames, Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Shai Hulud, Overcast (reunion), Soilwork, Throwdown, Poison the Well, Lamb of God, Dark Funeral, Killswitch Engage, God Forbid, Pissing Razors, Arch Enemy, NORA, Suicide Note, All That Remains, deadeyesunder, Blood Audio (ex- Overkill), Burma, Crematorium, 1000 Falling Sky's, Vexation, Burnt by the Sun, Light Is the Language, Dasai, Severe Torture, Disavowed, Disgorge, Deeds of Flesh, Pig Destroyer, Deceased, Maudlin of the Well, Novembers Doom, Sky Came Falling, From Autumn to Ashes, Most Precious Blood, Devil May Care, Blood Has Been Shed, Misery Index, Scar Culture, Dim Mak, Kataklysm, 5.0, Barium

2003 – NEMHF V

Opeth, Shadows Fall, Nevermore, Lacuna Coil, Kataklysm, Goatwhore, Novembers Doom, Noctuary, Full Blown Chaos, Beyond The Sixth Seal, Wasteform, Eviscerate, Blood Has Been Shed, DRI, Cannae, Bongzilla, Crematorium, Locked In A Vacancy, Scarlet, Grimlock, The Acacia Strain, Superjoint Ritual, Meshuggah, The Haunted, Suffocation, Lamb Of God, Converge, Killswitch Engage, Strapping Young Lad, Unearth, Eighteen Visions, Diecast, Speedkillhate, NORA, Bleeding Through, Beyond The Embrace, Chimaira, Harakiri, Drowning, Held Under, Dysrhythmia, Traumaside, Pig Destroyer, The Red Chord, Atreyu, Misery Index, Cephalic Carnage, Most Precious Blood, Mastodon, Hate Eternal, Baby Brown Eye, Caliban, Himsa, Premonitions Of War, 100 Demons, The Takeover, Uphill Battle, On Broken Wings and a special performance by Agoraphobic Nosebleed

2004 – NEMHF VI

Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy, Machine Head, God Forbid, Iced Earth, Children of Bodom, Downward Deception, Zao, Throwdown, Bleeding Through, A Perfect Murder, All My Sins, All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, The Autumn Offering, Between The Buried And Me, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Bled, Burnt By The Sun, Bury Your Dead, Byzantine, Cannae, Cattle Decapitation, Comeback Kid, Crematorium, Darkest Hour, Daughters, Deadwater Drowning, Diecast, Ed Gein, Embrace Today, Evergreen Terrace, Evergrey, Every Time I Die, Found Dead Hanging, From A Second Story Window, Full Blown Chaos, Glass Casket, The Judas Cradle, Kataklysm, Martyr AD, Misery Index, Misery Signals, Mortal Treason, Most Precious Blood, NORA, Pig Destroyer, The Red Chord, Reflux, Scar Culture, Scarlet, Since The Flood, Six Feet Under, Soilent Green, Speedkillhate, Terror, Through The Discipline, To The Grave, Twelve Tribes, Walls of Jericho, Watch them Die, What Weapons Bring War

2005 – NEMHF VII

Hatebreed, Gizmachi, Unearth, Obituary, Nightwish (cancelled), Chimaira, Cryptopsy, Hell Within, King Diamond, Nile, Soilwork, A Life Once Lost, All Shall Perish, All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, Behemoth, Black Dahlia Murder, Blood Has Been Shed, Bury Your Dead, Dark Tranquillity, Darkest Hour, Evergreen Terrace, Full Blown Chaos, Glass Casket, Hypocrisy, If Hope Dies, Internal Bleeding, Ion Dissonance, It Dies Today, Kylesa, Maroon, Misery Signals, Nimic, Premonitions Of War, Pro-Pain, The Red Chord, Reflux, Remembering Never, Scurvy, Sonata Arctica, Stemm, Strapping Young Lad, The Acacia Strain, The Agony Scene, The Esoteric, The Killing, The Minor Times, Throwdown, Trivium, Winter Solstice, Mnemic, Cephalic Carnage, Origin,
Between the Buried and Me, Noctuary, Paria

2006 – NEMHF VIII

A Love Ends Suicide, Bronx Casket Company, Burn in Silence, Byzantine, Cannae, DragonForce, Lacuna Coil, Gamma Ray, Hypersolid, Inked in Blood, Into Eternity, Kid Deposit Triumph, Light This City, Mercury Switch, Protest the Hero, Sanctity, Withered, Orphan Secks, Wolf, xDeathStarx, 3, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Born Victim, Cellador, Daughters, Doomriders, Folly, Goat Horn, Phoenix Mourning, The Miles Between, Torn Asunder, xLooking Forwardx, Yakuza, 100 Demons, Arch Enemy, At All Cost, Baby Bottom Smashers, Caliban, Chimaira, Embrace The End, Exodus, God Forbid, Hate Eternal, Immolation, Into the Moat, Ion Dissonance, On Broken Wings, Overcast, Butte Skratcha, Scars of Tomorrow, Since The Flood, Skinless, Suffocation, Terror, Colin of Arabia, Damnation AD, Death Threat, First Blood, Full Blown Chaos, Righteous Jams, Shoot To Kill, Spitfire, Sworn Enemy, The Human Abstract, The Jonbenét, Turmoil, Alarum, Arsis, A Life Once Lost, Hateblood, Between the Buried and Me, Dead to Fall, Demiricous, Haste The Day, If Hope Dies, Necrophagist, Nodes of Ranvier, Scarlet, Still Remains, The Absence, The Acacia Strain, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Red Chord, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Neckdeath, Cephalic Carnage, Ed Gein, From A Second Story Window, Ringworm, Suicide Silence, Today I Wait

2007 – NEMHF IX

April 27, 2007

Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir, DevilDriver, Walls of Jericho, Kataklysm, 3 Inches of Blood, Still Remains, Skinless, The Devil Wears Prada, Atomic Six, 100 Demons, NORA, Despised Icon, Nachtmystium, xDEATHSTARx, Animosity, DÅÅTH, December Aeternalis, Merauder, Suicide Silence, Death Before Dishonor, Ligeia, Pale Horse, Kylesa, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Stick to Your Guns, Thy Will Be Done, Skeletonwitch, As Blood Runs Black, Beneath The Massacre, The Faceless, The Funeral Pyre.

April 28, 2007

Unearth, Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Red Chord, Job for a Cowboy, Lizzy Borden, God Dethroned, Impious, Goatwhore, 3, Shai Hulud, Since the Flood, Demiricous, Cellador, Hallows Eve, Beyond The Embrace, Architect, Animosity, Psyopus, If Hope Dies, Gaza, Absence, Forever In Terror, Apiary, Sons of Azreal, Catalystic Confession,
The Destro, The Miles Between, The Network, Epicurean.

2008 – NEMHF X

April 25, 2008


Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job for a Cowboy, High on Fire


April 26, 2008


Dimmu Borgir, Shadows Fall, Behemoth, Overkill (cancelled), The Acacia Strain, Hate Eternal, Kataklysm, Vital Remains, Heaven Shall Burn, As Blood Runs Black, Despised Icon, Animosity, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, Skeletonwitch, Monstrosity, Keep of Kalessin, The End, Ghost Inside, Municipal Waste, Disfear, First Blood, On Broken Wings, Sleeping Giant, Arsis, Soilent Green, From A Second Story Window

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