The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival was an annual festival held in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It was a weekend-long concert of heavy metal and hardcore punk bands along with a merchandising and promotional area for record labels and other vendors. It had been held in the Worcester Palladium since its inception in 1999. Time line 1999 – NEMHF I GWAR, Morbid Angel, Isis, Manowar, Overkill, Napalm Death, Converge, Diecast, Deicide, Vital Remains, Gwar, Madball, Crossthread, Non Compos, God Stands Still The headliners were Morbid Angel and Napalm Death on the 1st night, Gwar and Deicide on the 2nd night, and Manowar and Earth Crisis on the third night. It was originally supposed to be The Misfits instead of Manowar, which is why there was more hardcore on the third day, but The Misfits canceled their appearance, thereby placing Manowar as the replacement headliner. 2000 – NEMHF II Friday, February 11, 2000 – Machine Head, Six Feet Under, Reveille, Shadows Fall, Immolation, Skarhead, 7th Rail Crew, Hate Machine, Gangsta Bitch Barbie, Primer 55, Simple, Buried Alive, Rain Fell Within, 100 Demons, Unearth, Scrape, Sworn Enemy, 6 Thirty 7, Long Winter Stare, Havoc, Hateplow, Eastcide, Shed, R22, Colepitz, Nok, Hypnotic Kick, Dead Trees Sway, Morgan 2, Neck, Blindside, Trustfall Saturday, February 12, 2000 – The Misfits, Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, Snapcase, Vision of Disorder, Candiria, Reach The Sky, Isis, Indecision, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dying Fetus, Turmoil, Pessimist, Diecast, Grade, Dissolve, All That Remains, Drowning Man, Step Kings, Gargantua Soul, Internal Bleeding, Maudlin of the Well, Torn Assunder, Chimaira, Deceased, The Hope Conspiracy, Blood Has Been Shed, Diabolic, Himsa, Skinless, Killswitch Engage, Aftershock, Suffer, Old Man Gloom, Cannae, Catheter, Excoriate, Drag Body, Death Threat, In My Eyes, Ground Zero, Recoil band, Haste, Spite, Onslaught, Humans Being, God Dethroned, Toxic Field Mice, Delvic, Code 7, Crash Davis, In Pieces, Anal Cunt, Hatebreed 2001 – NEMHF III Cannibal Corpse, wasteform, Dimmu Borgir, Nile, The Haunted, Lamb of God, Malevolent Creation, Catastrophic (ex-Obituary), Monstrosity, Meshuggah, Amorphis, Opeth, Shadows Fall, Dying Fetus, Gorguts, God Forbid, Zao, Living Sacrifice, All Out War, Diecast, Skinless, Noctuary, All That Remains, Poison the Well, God Below, Exhumed, Cannae, The Hope Conspiracy, Killswitch Engage, Nullset, Blood Has Been Shed, and Vital Remains, Suffocation, Held Under, Mushmouth, Santa Sangre. Zircon 2002 – NEMHF IV In Flames, Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Shai Hulud, Overcast (reunion), Soilwork, Throwdown, Poison the Well, Lamb of God,