The Scene
The concept of MDF is simple: to bring to the United States the best and most extreme bands the underground has to offer. Never conforming to trends, or being limited by genre restrictions, MDF is a showcase of what extreme music, both new and old, is capable of.
Festival Poster
2016 Artist Lineup
- The Afternoon Gentlemen (UK)
- Auroch (Canada)
- Bongripper
- Bongzilla
- Buzzov*en
- Centinex (Sweden)
- Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Italy)
- Craft (Sweden)
- Crypt Sermon
- Dead Church
- Dehumanized
- Demonical (Sweden)
- Demonic Christ
- Denouncement Pyre (Australia)
- Deranged (Sweden)
- Desaster (Germany)
- Deströyer 666
- Discharge (UK)
- Disgorge
- DOOM (UK)
- Dopethrone
- Dragged into Sunlight (UK)
- Excel
- Exciter (Canada)
- General Surgery (Sweden)
- Gets Worse (UK)
- Grave Miasma (UK)
- Ground
- Gruesome
- Haemorrhage (Spain)
- Hail of Bullets (Netherlands)
- The Haunted (Sweden)
- Hellbringer (Australia)
- Hemdale
- Hirax
- Horrendous
- Impaled Nazarene (Finland)
- Infernal Revulsion (Japan)
- Infest
- Internment (Sweden)
- Jungle Rot
- Khold (Norway)
- Lord Belial (Sweden)
- Magrudergrind
- Malignant Tumour (Czech Republic)
- Mitochondrion (Canada)
- Mystifier (Brazil)
- Negative Approach
- Nocturnal Graves (Australia)
- Novembers Doom
- Nuclear Assault
- Paradise Lost (UK)
- Phobocosm (Canada)
- Priapus
- Putrescence (Canada)
- Putrid Pile
- Repulsion
- Ringworm
- Rotten Sound (Finland)
- Samael (Switzerland) – “Ceremony of Opposites” set
- Sanitys Dawn (Germany)
- Satan (UK)
- Saturnalia Temple (Sweden)
- Secrets of the Moon (Germany)
- Severe Torture (Netherlands)
- Severed Head of State
- Sick Fix
- Sick of Stupidity (Netherlands)
- Sinister (Netherlands)
- Six Brew Bantha (Canada)
- Skullshitter
- Svartidauði (Iceland)
- Svarttjern (Norway)
- Tempest
- Test (Brazil)
- Testament
- Thulcandra (Germany)
- Tragedy
- Tulus (Norway)
- Venom (UK)
- Visceral Disgorge
- Waco Jesus
- Weedeater
- Whoresnation
- Wombbath (Sweden)
- World Burns to Death
- Wormed (Spain)
- Yacøpsæ (Germany)