This year’s Maryland Doom Fest has already begun. It started last night and will continue through Sunday, packing as much volume as possible between the first switched on amplifier and the final, inevitable broom swept across the floor afterward at Cafe 611 in Frederick, MD, where the fest is held. These shows are jammed. They start early. They go late. There’s nothing else quite like Maryland Doom Fest out there, and when you go, you’re made welcome whether you’re a regular or not. It’s too intimate a space and too cool a crowd for bullshit attitudes to survive. Relax and enjoy the tunes.

I’m sad to say I’m not there this year — let’s call it “family stuff” and leave it there — but the lineup is incredible and I wanted to do at least some tiny measure of tribute to that, so here we are. Some of these bands are MDDF veterans — Apostle of Solitude, Zed, Foghound, Faith in Jane, Caustic Casanova, etc. — but some are new to the event as well — Coven, Great Electric Quest, Formula 400, and others — so it’s a good mix, and you know I’m a sucker for ending epic, so The Age of Truth seemed perfect for that. They’re gonna kill it this weekend playing songs from Resolute and everyone there will know it long before they go on and they’ll still kill it. That’s just how it goes down there. You’re gonna have a good time.

Thanks if you listen, thanks if you’re reading. Thanks in general. And if you’re at the fest this weekend, enjoy it.

The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at: http://gimmemetal.com.

Full playlist:

The Obelisk Show – 06.24.22 (VT = voice track)

Coven	Wicked Woman	Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls
Zed	Chingus	Volume
Apostle of Solitude	Apathy in Isolation	Until the Darkness Goes
VT
Problem With Dragons	Live by the Sword	Accelerationist
Horseburner	A Joyless King	The Thief
Thunderbird Divine	Qualified	Magnasonic
Heavy Temple	A Desert Through the Trees	Lupi Amoris
Great Electric Quest	Seeker of the Flame	Chapter II – Of Earth
Formula 400	Ridin’ Easy	Heathens
Horehound	Hiraeth	Collapse
VT
Shadow Witch	Witches of Aendor	Under the Shadow of a Witch
Faces of Bayon	Ethereality	Heart of the Fire
Ol’ Time Moonshine	Raven vs. Hawk	The Apocalypse Trilogies
Caustic Casanova	Truth Syrup	God How I Envy the Deaf
Foghound	Known Wolves	Awaken to Destroy
Orodruin	Into the Light of the Sun	Ruins of Eternity
Faith in Jane	Gone Are the Days	Mother to Earth
Alms	The Offering	Act One
Guhts	The Mirror	Blood Feather
VT
The Age of Truth	Return to the Ships	Resolute

The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is July 8 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.

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