xLookingForwardx, Folly, Protest the Hero, HORSE the Band, Ed Gein at New England Hardcore and Metal

The lineup for the 8th annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival has been announced. The annual event, will take place April 28th, April 29th and April 30th at
the Palladium in Worcester, MA.

Friday tickets are $35.00; Saturday and Sunday individual day tickets are $40.00. Three-day passes are $109.50. Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 24 at 10:00am at all Strawberries Record Stores, online at tickets.com, or by calling tickets.com at (800) 477-6849.

Many more bands are expected, but 69 acts have already been confirmed for the three day festival. You can click Read More for the confirmed list.

• 100 Demons
• A Perfect Murder
• Alarum
• Arch Enemy
• Arsis
• Bloodline Calligraphy
• Bronx Casket Company
• Bullet For My Valentine
• Byzantine
• Caliban
• Cattle Decapitation
• Chimaira
• Colin Of Arabia
• Cryptopsy
• Damnation AD
• Dead To Fall
• Death Threat
• Demiricous
• DragonForce
• Ed Gein
• Embrace The End
• Exodus
• Folly
• From A Second Story Window
• Full Blown Chaos
• Gamma Ray
• Goat Horn
• God Forbid
• Hate Eternal
• Horse The Band
• Hypersolid
• If Hope Dies
• Immolation
• Inked In Blood

• Into Eternity
• Ion Dissonance
• Lacuna Coil
• Ligeia
• Losa
• Mercury Switch
• Necrophagist
• Neuraxis
• Nodes Of Ranvier
• On Broken Wings
• Protest The Hero
• Ramallah
• Righteous Jams
• Ringworm
• Sanctity
• Scars Of Tomorrow
• Shoot To Kill
• Since The Flood
• Skinless
• Still Remains
• Suffocation
• Sworn Enemy
• The Absence
• The Acacia Strain
• The Black Dahlia Murder
• The Classic Struggle
• The Miles Between
• Thine Eyes Bleed
• Torn Assunder
• Trouble
• Twelve Tribes
• Who Killed The Promo Queen
• Wolf
• xLOOKINGFORWARDx.
• xDEATHSTARx