There’s a fine line between “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and “there’s always room for improvement”, and more often than not the re-recording of old albums usually falls snugly into the former category. No matter how much more accomplished the revised version might sound from a technical standpoint, the overall results rarely change. Lightning in a bottle cannot be captured twice.
I wish I could say I knew Jonny Zazula back in the day, but I wasn’t quite old enough. Sure, I had heard all the stories. As a major Metallica and Anthrax fan, Jon and his wife Marsha’s life stories are Metal history as much as any riff, album or chorus. I bumped into Jon about twelve years ago at Starland Ballroom in New Jersey. I was there to see a Testament headline show. Jon and Eddie Trunk, who owes his career to Jon and Marsha to an extent, walked right by and I totally fanboyed out. I’m pretty sure I blurted out something lame like “Holy shit, Jonny Z! Thanks for everything!”, since that what was in my heart. He gave me like a half-pat on the arm, half a “hey dude I need to get by you” move and slipped past me on his way backstage. Trunk just smiled. That was my in-person brush with him, until a recent phone interview (coming soon) for this book release. The book is a memoir about an enterprising music lover who put a genre or two on his back and raised up everyone around him toward greatness.
In a post to Facebook today Maryland Deathfest announced their first 30 bands for the 2016 event, taking place from May 26-29th, once again held at the Edison Lot, Rams Head Live, Baltimore Soundstage. Among the notable first wave of bands announced are Venom, Samael, Exciter, The Haunted, Hail of Bullets, Mitochondrian, Disgourge, Desrtoyer 666, Saturnalia Temple, Grusome, Jungle Rot, Sinister, Severe Tourture, Wormed and many more. Samel will be playing a special Ceremony of Opposites set.
From Facebook
Here we go again!
MDF XIV
MDF 26-29, 2016
Edison Lot, Rams Head Live, Baltimore Soundstage30 bands confirmed for MDF XIV:
Auroch (Canada)
Bongripper
Bongzilla
Denouncement Pyre (Australia)
Deströyer 666
Disgorge
Exciter
Gruesome
Haemorrhage (Spain)
Hail of Bullets (Netherlands)
The Haunted (Sweden)
Jungle Rot
Khold (Norway)
Lord Belial (Sweden)
Malignant Tumour (Czech Republic)
Mitochondrion (Canada)
Nocturnal Graves (Australia)
Phobocosm (Canada)
Putrid Pile
Samael (Switzerland) – “Ceremony of Opposites” set
Saturnalia Temple (Sweden)
Severe Torture (Netherlands)
Sinister (Netherlands)
Svartidauði (Iceland)
Svarttjern (Norway)
Thulcandra (Germany)
Tulus (Norway)
Venom (UK)
Visceral Disgorge
Wormed (Spain)
Here we go again!MDF XIV, MDF 26-29, 2016 Edison Lot, Rams Head Live, Baltimore Soundstage 30 bands confirmed for MDF…
Posted by Maryland Deathfest on Friday, June 26, 2015
A limited amount of 4 Day passes will be on sale at 12 Noon EST until they sell out. Tickets can be bought at this link: