Desertfest New York 2024 Adds Eagle Twin, Trace Amount & The Infinity Ring; Day-Splits & Pre-Party Announced
I was lucky enough to witness a few badass CMJ showcases back in the day that are imprinted as fuzzy memories on my frontal cortex, but for the life of me I can’t think of another NYC-based heavy-fest lineup that can step to what Desertfest New York has in store for Queens next month. Look at those day-splits. The outside stage along on that Saturday, with Dozer and Truckfighers, Hippie Death Cult, Gozu and Kadabra, while inside you’ve got Spaceslug, Eagle Twin, Green Lung, Acid King and Russian Circles? God damn. Plus a Texas (the smaller) stage with, suitably, High Desert Queen alongside NYC mainstays Tower, the punishing industrialism of Trace Amount, Benin and The Infinity Ring.
And that’s following up on the brutality the day before that starts with Guhts in the small room and ends with High on Fire trampling the main stage with Domkraft and Deathchant and Primitive Man and Blackwater Holylight and Spirit Mother and Abrams and Belzebong and Amenra between. As one might otherwise say about Desertfest London, bloody hell that’s a good bill.
A big question, of course, around NYC-heavy-anything in 2024 has been what’s happening since the Saint Vitus Bar got shut down. If you had your fingers crossed the city’s most famed metal venue — which has hosted Desertfest New York‘s pre-show as a point of tradition for the last few years — would be open in time to do so again, you can go back to using your hands. With Legions of Doom, Satan’s Satyrs (including Sean Saley on drums; he’s ex-Pentagram and a bunch of others), Mirror Queen and Mustafina will be at The Meadows. I’m sure it’ll still be a good time, if tinged with some bittersweet aspect in light of the context.
But one way or the other, this is nigh on unfuckwithable, and a festival that NYC should consider itself lucky to host. Yeah I fucking said it. I meant it, too.
From social media:
** DESERTFEST NYC ANNOUNCES STAGE SPLITS, ADDITIONAL 3-DAY PASSES AND FINAL 3 ARTISTS. PLUS PRE-PARTY VENUE DETAILS**
Alright Desertfesters, the time has come for our final announcements ahead of the festival – stage splits are here and so are some tasty final additions to our 2024 lineup. Unfortunately, True Widow have had to pull out of the festival due to illness.
HOWEVER, taking their place is none other than Salt Lake City’s duo of doom Eagle Twin !
We also warmly welcome New England drone/dark folk collective THE INFINITY RING and Brooklyn’s own experimental harsh industrialist TRACE AMOUNT to Saturday’s compelling ‘Vitus Presents’ curation on the Texas stage.
::PRE-PARTY UPDATE:: aka, the news you’ve all been waiting for…
We can now confirm our 2024 pre-party will take place at The Meadows in Brooklyn. This means we can release a limited amount of additional 3-day passes thanks to The Meadows’ larger capacity. We know a lot of you were bummed to miss out on the 3-day passes, so we’re stoked that we can now accommodate more of y’all for the full DF experience!
With just over a month to go til the festival, we couldn’t be more excited to start counting down the days til showtime this September.
Day tickets, 3-day & 2-day passes for Desertfest NYC are available at https://link.dice.fm/desertfest2024. JOIN US!
Stage times, info on this year’s vendors and after parties will be released in the coming weeks.
Desertfest NYC ↠ Sep 12th -14th, 2024
The Meadows (Sep 12th)
Knockdown Center (Sep 13th – 14th)
Tickets ↠ https://link.dice.fm/desertfest2024
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