Killswitch Engage will headline California Metalfest VI on Saturday in San Bernardino. (Contributed Image)
California Metalfest VI, which comes to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino on Saturday, Nov. 24, will be dedicating the all-day onslaught of metal to the memory of late Suicide Silence singer Mitch Lucker, who died Nov. 1 after a Halloween motorcycle accident.
The band was scheduled to perform the show before Lucker’s death. A portion of the proceeds will go to the education fund for Lucker’s daughter, Kenadee.
Headlining the festival Saturday is Killswitch Engage, which has reunited with singer Jesse Leach and will perform “Alive or Just Breathing” in its entirety. I recently interviewed Leach about rejoining the band, that album and the new material Killswitch Engage will release in 2013.
Metalfest has done a lot for Inland musicians, too. The Inland-based artists performing include Ana Kefr, At the Skylines, Bleeding Through, Sangre, Sleeping Giant and Winds of Plague.
Are you going to Metalfest? Who are you most excited to see?