The Jamboree (stylized as The JAMboree) is an annual music festival held in Toledo, Ohio. The concert was originally only one day, but it has since expanded to both Saturday and Sunday. The festival features mostly metalcore and hardcore bands and also various merchandise booths.
The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, We Came As Romans, Miss May I, The Color Morale, I Am Abomination, All 's Quest, At the Skylines, Vivian Banks, Halfway to Winter, Gale Tempest, Burn the Ships!, Wake from Existence, Death of an Era
Premonitions of War, For the Fallen Dreams, ABACABB, American Me, And Hell Followed With, Within the Ruins, Like Moths to Flames, Fall to the Queen, Fight the Tide, Lookoutbelow!, Lost in the Light, Once at War, Arson Our Savior, I Have Seen Fire, Versus the Ocean
Four Letter Lie, Abandon All Ships, Kid Liberty, Destruction of a Rose, Across the Sun, Slay the Betrayer, Hailsite
Asking Alexandria, Emmure, Winds of Plague, Chiodos, Miss May I, Carnifex, Oceano, Evergreen Terrace, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Within the Ruins, The Crimson Armada, Lower Than Atlantis, Lookout Below!, Arson Our Savior
The Wonder Years, Fireworks, Reign Supreme, Salt the Wound, Decoder, Lionheart, Such Gold, Hundredth, Legion, Like Moths to Flames, No Bragging Rights, Legacy, The Fragile Season
Monsters, Smash Your Enemies, CDVR, The Greenery, Trust Me I'm a Doctor, FreQontrol, Seasons, Citizen, Cities & Years, Vivian Banks, Siren the Escape
April 14, 2012 [3]
We Came As Romans, Emmure, Born of Osiris, Woe, Is Me, On Broken Wings, The Plot in You, The Color Morale, Obey the Brave, Glass Cloud, Reign Supreme, No Bragging Rights, Structures, Undesirable People
For All I Am, Citizen, It Prevails, Counterparts, Harm's Way, Wilson, Smash Your Enemies, With Life in Mind, Dr. Acula, Ice Nine Kills, SycAmour
Convictions, Maker, State Champs, Johnny Booth, A Violent Perfection, Mayor Mayor, What Happened in Vegas
April 15, 2012
The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, The Acacia Strain, Oceano, And Hell Followed With, Texas in July, Lionheart, Like Moths to Flames, Hundredth, The Air I Breathe, Legion, Parables, In Alcatraz 1962
Gideon, Fit for an Autopsy, Delusions, The Plot in You (special guest performance), Palisades, Aegaeon, As Hell Retreats, Legacy, React, Endeavors, Dweller
Measure the Redshift, Of Virtue, Dismember the Fallen, Shores of Elysium, Tharsis They, Hail to the King, Collector, Like Statues
2013 was the first year to feature events other than the festival. A pre-party was held on Friday, April 12 at Frankies Inner City in Toledo, and featured performances from Fireworks, Louder Than Bombs, React, and The Fight Within. [4] An after-party was also held at Frankies after Day 1 and featured a performance from Andrew W.K. [5]
April 13, 2013 [6]
Every Time I Die, The Story So Far, The Acacia Strain, Man Overboard, The Plot in You, Stray from the Path, Backtrack, Citizen, Tonight Alive, Undesirable People, Fit for a King, Mouth of the South, Endeavors
Dead End Path, Death Before Dishonor, The Greenery, Hostage Calm, Born Low, Koji, Live It Out, The American Scene, To the Winds, InDirections, This Is a Lifetime
April 14, 2013 [6]
Hatebreed, Miss May I, Terror, Job for a Cowboy, After the Burial, Within the Ruins, I Declare War, The Contortionist, Glass Cloud, Legion, Erra, City in the Sea, Shore of Elysium
This Is Hell, Reflections, Sworn In, Aegaeon, King 810, The Holy Guile, Watch This Burn, King Conquer, Years Since the Storm, Arson Our Savior, Hail to the King
The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival is an annual festival held in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. The weekend-long concert of heavy metal and hardcore punk bands along with a merchandising and promotional area for record labels and other vendors, has been held in the Worcester Palladium since its inception in 1999.
Deathcore is an extreme metal subgenre that combines death metal with metalcore. The genre consists of death metal guitar riffs, blast beats, and metalcore breakdowns. While there are some precursors to the concept of death metal fused with metalcore/hardcore elements seen in the 1990s, deathcore itself emerged in the early 2000s and gained prominence beginning in the mid-2000s within the southwestern United States, especially Arizona and inland southern California, which are home to many notable bands and various festivals.
The Sportatorium, located in downtown Dallas, Texas, was a barn-like arena used primarily for professional wrestling events. The building, which stood at 1000 S. Industrial Blvd, or the intersection of Industrial Boulevard and Cadiz Street, had a seating capacity of approximately 4,500.
The Bamboozle was an annual three-day music festival which was held in New Jersey from 2003 to 2012, and was scheduled for a 2023 revival in Atlantic City by its founder. Every year, new bands competed for spots during the two days. The event evolved out of the Skate and Surf Festival. The 2012 event was the final one of its original run, as founder John D'Esposito subsequently left Bamboozle due to creative differences with organizing partners.
Summer Breeze Open Air is an annual German heavy metal music festival. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually.
Winds of Plague is an American deathcore band from Upland, California. Formed in 2002, the band is known for being the first of several deathcore bands to incorporate symphonic elements into their music.
The Summer Slaughter Tour is an annual heavy metal music tour held every year since 2007. It originated in North America in 2007 and has toured in Canada in 2008, Europe in 2008, and Australia and New Zealand in 2009. Billed as "The Most Extreme Tour of the Year", Summer Slaughter has earned a reputation as being one of the few summer tours to cater exclusively to fans of extreme forms of metal music. Starting in 2012, Summer Slaughter began to add more progressive metal bands to their lineups, seeing Between the Buried and Me co-headline with Cannibal Corpse. Periphery also played Summer Slaughter 2012, and came back during Summer Slaughter 2013, along with progressive metal bands Animals as Leaders and The Ocean. The focus on progressive metal that year was controversial and many people were "into" heavy metal music, and death metal focused lineups returned in 2014, seeing Morbid Angel headline.
Emmure is an American metalcore band formed in 2003. Originally based in New Fairfield, Connecticut, before moving to Queens, New York, the group has released eight albums, with their first public release being a 2006 EP entitled The Complete Guide to Needlework.
Whitechapel is an American deathcore band from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band is named after the Whitechapel district in East London, England, where Jack the Ripper committed a series of murders. The group comprises vocalist Phil Bozeman, guitarists Ben Savage, Alex Wade, and Zach Householder, bassist Gabe Crisp and drummer Brandon Zackey. Their core lineup, with the exception of the drummer, has remained consistent since Householder replaced original guitarist Brandon Cagle in 2007. Founded in 2006 by Bozeman and Savage, the band has released eight studio albums and fourteen music videos, and it's currently signed to Metal Blade Records. Whitechapel's 2010 album A New Era of Corruption, sold around 10,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release and debuted at position No. 43 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band's self-titled fourth album was released in 2012 and debuted at No. 47 on the Billboard 200, selling roughly 9,200 copies in its first week. In 2014 the band released their fifth full-length album, Our Endless War to generally positive reviews. The album sold roughly 16,000 copies in its first week and debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. They released their sixth full-length album Mark of the Blade in 2016 to greater critical acclaim, selling roughly 8,000 copies in the first week of its release. In 2019, Whitechapel released their seventh album, The Valley, which debuted at No. 143 on the Billboard 200 also to critical acclaim. Their newest album, Kin, was released on October 29, 2021.
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Oceano is an American deathcore band from Cook County, Illinois. Formed in 2006, the band signed to Earache Records and released their debut album, Depths, on April 7, 2009. Their second album, Contagion, was released on November 9, 2010. Their fourth album Ascendants was released March 23, 2015. Their fifth studio album Revelation was released on May 19, 2017. It was their first release with their new label, Sumerian Records. Their sixth and final studio album, Living Chaos, was released on August 30, 2024.
Chelsea Grin is an American deathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah. Formed in 2007, the group have released two EPs and seven full-length albums. Since 2018, no founding members remain in the band. Despite not being in the original line-up, bassist David Flinn has been the only constant member on all the group's studio albums.
Within the Ruins is an American metalcore band formed in Westfield, Massachusetts in 2003. The group currently consists of guitarist Joe Cocchi, drummer Kevin McGuill, bassist Paolo Galang, and vocalist Steve Tinnon. They are currently signed to eOne Music and Good Fight Music. The band has released seven studio albums and three EPs.
Glass Cloud was an American metalcore band from Hampton, Virginia formed by Jerry Roush, Joshua Travis, Travis Sykes, and Chad Hasty in late 2011. The band released their debut album, The Royal Thousand on July 10, 2012 via Equal Vision Records in the United States and Basick Records in the United Kingdom. Lead vocalist Roush was formerly the vocalist of Sky Eats Airplane and Of Mice & Men, while Joshua Travis was the guitarist for The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza until 2012. Perfect War Forever EP was released October 22, 2013 via Equal Vision Records.
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Obey the Brave was a Canadian hardcore punk band From Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario. Formed in 2012, the band features Despised Icon singer Alex Erian on vocals as well as Blind Witness bassist Miguel Lepage, guitarists John Campbell and Greg Wood, and drummer Stevie Morotti. By the middle of 2012, just over half a year after becoming a band, the metalcore act found itself signed to iconic label Good Fight, with the EP, Ups And Downs, released in 2012. They signed to the label Epitaph, with the band's debut studio album, Young Blood, released in August of that same year. A sophomore album, Salvation, followed in 2014. The third album Mad Season was followed up in 2017. The fourth album Balance was followed up in 2019.