The Metal Injection Festival will return for its second year on Sept. 21 and 22, 2024, and in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Metal Injection, the event will hit the streets of the website’s origins in New York at Brooklyn Monarch & Meadows.
The festival roster includes exclusive specials sets such as the recently reunited God Forbid playing its 2004 album “Gone Forever” in its entirety for the first time and 3 Inches of Blood reuniting and performing on the East Coast for the first time in over a decade. There also will be special, commissioned world debut of the project Pallid Veil featuring Luc Lemay of Gorguts, Dave Davidson of Revocation, Liam Wilson of The Dillinger Escape Plan and In Flames, and Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb, as well as a special acoustic set by Stephen Brodsky and Adam McGrath of Cave In, and much more. Plus, fans will have access to a rare meet-and-greet opportunity with Ukrainian band Jinjer.
“We’re very excited to come to New York for the first time in over a decade,” 3 Inches of Blood drummer Ash Pearson said. “New York fans have always been good to us, and we’re looking forward to playing for them again. Should be an incredible weekend”
Metal Injection founder and festival organizer Frank Godla said: “Last year was an incredible way to kick things off for the Metal Injection Festival, and with this year being our 20th anniversary I decided to head back to our origins. This year, I bring this mammoth weekend to Brooklyn, N.Y., with a celebration it’s never seen.
“The list of artists and special sets on this roster is truly insane, and I couldn’t be happier about how this shaped up. Even the smallest bands on this roster excite the shit out of me, and will be household names. So here’s your chance to see what they’re made of the way I see them.”
Tickets are available here.
The full lineup is as follows:
Jinjer
Converge
God Forbid (performing “Gone Forever”)
3 Inches of Blood (first east coast show in over a decade)
Hanabie
Cave In (Adam and Stephen set)
Rivers of Nihil
Revocation
Goatwhore
Pallid Veil (commissioned world debut)
Oceans of Slumber
Carbomb
Body Box
Gost
Born of Osiris
Wretched
Jesus Wept
Hath
Cognitive
Vitriol
Phantom Eye
Necrofier
Genocide Pact
Shock Withdrawal
Johnny Booth
Uncured
Hue
Lamacchia
Del Judas
Vermin Dog
Fellahin Fall
The festival also will include lots of surprises, giveaways, unannounced happenings, vendors and more across the weekend.
For every ticket sold, $1 will be donated to Headbang for Science, an annual scholarship award for high school seniors, undergrads and grad students who are pursuing a career in health care and/or the physical sciences. It’s the first scholarship foundation to directly provide financial aid to “metalheads” and was founded by SiriusXM curator/host and former pharmacy grad student Jose “Metal Ambassador” Mangin in 2021.
More information can be found via the official Metal Injection website.
