New England Metal and Hardcore Festival

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

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1999 - NEMHF I

2000 - NEMHF II

2001 - NEMHF III

Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu Borgir, Nile, The Haunted, Lamb of God, Malevolent Creation, Catastrophic (ex-Obituary), and Monstrosity. Saturday’s line-up will include Meshuggah, Amorphis, Opeth, Shadows Fall, Dying Fetus, Gorguts, God Forbid, Zao, Living Sacrifice, All Out War, Diecast, and Skinless. Other acts appearing on the festival include All That Remains, Poison the Well, God Below, Exhumed, Cannae, The Hope Conspiracy, Killswitch Engage, Nullset, One King Down, Blood Has Been Shed, and Vital Remains.

2002 - NEMHF IV

In Flames, Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Shai Halud, 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

2003 - NEMHF V

Opeth, Shadows Fall, Nevermore, Lacuna Coil, Kataklysm, Goatwhore, November’s 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 and The Acacia Strain confirmed for Friday night. Saturday’s line-up will include Superjoint Ritual, Meshuggah, The Haunted, Suffocation, Lamb Of God, Converge, Killswitch Engage, Strapping Young Lad. Unearth, Eighteen Visions, Diecast, Speedkillhate, Nora, Bleeding Through,BeyondTheEmbrace, Chimaira, Harakiri, Drowning, Held Under, Dysrthyma, Traumacide, Pig Destroyer, The Red Chord, Atreyu, Misery Index, Cephalic Carnage, Most Precious Blood, Mastodon, Hate Eternal, Caliban, Himsa, Premonitions Of War, 100 Demons, The Takeover, Uphill Battle and Broken Wings

2004 - NEMHF VI

Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy, Machine Head, God Forbid and Every Time I Die confirmed as headliners for Friday night. Saturday’s headliners will include Iced Earth, Children Of Bodom, Zao, Throwdown and Bleeding Through. Also appearing are A Perfect Murder, All My Sins, All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, The Autumn Offering, Between The Buried And Me, Black Dahlia Murder, The Bled, Burnt By The Sun, Bury Your Dead, Byzantine, Canne, Cattle Decapitation, The 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, Unearth and Obituary confirmed as headliners for Friday night. Saturday’s headliners will include Nightwish, Chimaira and Cryptopsy. Sunday’s headliners will include King Diamond, Nile and Soilwork. Also appearing are 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 Tranquility, Darkest Hour, Evergreen Terrace, Full Blown Chaos, Glass Casket, Hypocrisy, If Hope Dies, Internal Bleeding, Ion Disonanance, It Dies Today, Kylesa, Maroon, Misery Signals, Nimic, Premonitions Of War, Pro-Pain, Red chord, Reflux, Remembering Never, Scurvy, Sonatarctica, Stemm, Strapping Young Lad, The Acacia Strain, The Agony Scene, The Esoteric, The Killing, The Minor Times, Throwdown, Trivium, Winter Solstice

2006 - NEMHF VIII

Apr 30, 2006

mainstage: a love ends suicide, bronx casket company, burn in silence, byzantine, cannae, dragonforce, gamma ray, hypersolid, inked in blood, into eternity, kid deposit triumph, light this city, mercury switch, protest the hero, sanctity, withered, wolf, and xdeathstarx

secondstage: 3 , bloodlined calligraphy, born victim, cellador, daughters, doomriders, folly, goat horn, phoenix mourning, the miles between, torn asunder, xlooking forwardx, and yakuza

Apr 29, 2006

mainstage: 100 demons, arch enemy, at all cost, caliban, Chimaira, embrace the end, exodus, God Forbid, hate eternal, immolation, into the moat, ion dissonance, on broken wings, overcast, scars of tomorrow, since the flood, skinless, suffocation, and terror

secondstage: colin of arabia, damnation ad, death threat, first blood, full blown chaos, righteous jams, shoot to kill, spitfire, sworn enemy, the human abstract, The JonBenet, and turmoil

Apr 28, 2006

mainstage: alarum, arsis, a life once lost, Between The Buried And Me, dead to fall, demiricous, haste the day, if hope dies, lacuna coil, Necrophagist, nodes of ranvier, scarlet, still remains, the absence, the acacia strain, the black dahlia murder, the red chord, and through the eyes of the dead

secondstage: cephalic carnage, ed gein, from a second story window, ligeia, ringworm, suicide silence, and today i wait

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