Ah, St. Patrick’s Day weekend. What a great time to hang out with friends, turn up the tunes, and get rip-roaringly irresponsible with your favorite booze of choice. Now imagine you had all that and a large lineup of some of today’s badass death metal bands playing on stages across two days?
Enter this year’s Shamrock Slaughter Fest. Set to start next Friday on March 13-14 in Fort Worth, Indiana’s Piere’s Entertainment Center and Stan’s Room, this all-ages event will see some huge names like headliners Incantation and Sanguisugabogg throwing down. A total of 28 different bands will perform across two stages over the course of those two days.
Looking at the lineup of bands feels like a love letter to the genre, which was by design according to the fest’s Gravemind Entertainment’s Braxton Keyser.
“I grew up in this scene, surrounded by people who live and breathe this music. Shamrock Slaughter Fest was built from that same passion — to bring together every part of death metal and extreme music under one roof. For our first year to feature one of the biggest names in metal today, legendary bands that helped shape the genre, and young acts keeping it alive — that says everything about where this scene is right now. My goal is to keep building something the fans, the bands, and the entire community can be proud of, and with their support, take it even further every year.”
It should be noted that Incantation’s ongoing food drive will be featured at this year’s festival, so remember to bring non-perishable food items to donate. Every little bit helps.
The first band on Friday, March 13 will kick things off shortly after doors open at 5 p.m. with music continuing until 11:30 p.m. that night. The following day, doors open at 2 p.m. with music running until about midnight.
You can find the full list of participating bands below and get your tickets today.
À la Carte
Abraded
Anatomize
Ancient Entities
Animated Dead
Atoll
Between The Killings
Burrito Bowel
Cemetery Rapist
Cheese Grater Masturbation
Concrete
Despise The Sun
Goremonger
Flesher
Human Artifacts
Incantation
Legion
Necessary Death
Prophecy
Protrusion
Pyrexia
Regurgitation
Sacrificial
Severed Headshop
Shoved Into Traffic
Syphilic
Violence Only
