Hostile City Deathfest

Philadelphians, it's the soundtrack of our lives: The second annual Hostile City Deathfest takes over Club Polaris (also known as the Starlight Ballroom) this weekend. Over 30 metal bands are playing, starting at 4 p.m. on Friday, and basically going all day and all night. Ok, I admit I don't know squat about these bands, but just a glance at the schedule offers an impressively horrific and uniformly grim version of the world that jibes nicely with the city that spawned Gary Heidnik and Harrison "Marty" Graham.  Among the band names I'm not making up who will be making Ozzfest seem like child's play:  Waking The Cadaver, Mortal Decay, Call The Paramedics, Hate Eternal, Diabiolic, Mortician, Putrid Pile, Rottenness, Malevolent Creation, Abnormlaity, Bonded by Blood, Destroyer 666, Polterchrist and Pathology. More info here. Happy headbanging!

Previously: Rittenhouse Square Double Bill