We usually kick off the Black Market with one of my standard 8,000-word screeds about whatever happened to irritate me during the preceding four weeks, but here’s the deal: I got totally reamed by scheduling this month. I don’t have 8,000 words of irritation in me! So let’s keep it short. How’s about we check in with one reason the crops failed at my ire farm this month: Maryland Deathfest. MDF, as it’s more commonly known, is a long-running extreme metal festival that’s further begrimed downtown Baltimore every Memorial Day weekend since 2003. It’s grown over that period into the United States’ foremost annual metal festival — a gritty,...
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