This year we had some of the best sounding bands we have ever had submit for FLMF! After reviewing bands, for the first time ever, we had something like 30 bands who received unanimous votes from the reviewing team!
Unfortunately, we only have enough time to have twenty bands perform at this event. So choosing which bands to invite was not such an easy task. So we had to look beyond votes and start looking at other notable features and factors. Some bands made it a little easier on us as they didn’t respond to their invitations by the deadline that was given, which opened the door for other bands.

Since announcing the line up of selected bands, we have received a few inevitable massages from bands who didn’t get selected. Including some that didn’t even submit! If a band doesn’t submit, they don’t get considered. It’s that simple. How would we even know you want in if you don’t submit? Even while we were taking band submissions we had bands ask us if they needed to submit even though we knew them, and we told them all that they need to submit to be considered, even if they felt they were a shoe-in.
If your band (or your favorite band) didn’t get selected, but DID submit, it’s nothing personal. We just simply don’t have enough slots to go around. That doesn’t mean that they won’t still end up playing at this event, as every year, we have bands that cancel out or are no-shows. If a band cancels, we will then offer their slot to the next band on the list that didn’t get selected in the first few rounds of invitations. Also, if a band that didn’t get selected shows up at the event anyway and we have a no show, they could get an impromptu invitation on the spot.
Bands who submitted this year, but didn’t get selected, have a greater chance of being selected for next year’s FLMF. Especially if they show up even though they weren’t selected this year. But they MUST submit! So, we hope to hear from them in the fall when we begin taking band submissions for FLMF 2013!

That said….

CONFIRMED BANDS FOR FLMF 2012 ARE;

SPATER
INERSHA
TARANTULA
CAGED
HORSEFACE
LOWKEY
AWAKEN
THE UNTOLD LIES
ORDER OF THE DEAD
HATE MACHINE
CIRCUS GRENADE
POETRY IN BLACK
DAWN OF THE APOLALYPSE
TAKKEN
BURN EVERYTHING
STYGIAN
THE LONG COLD DARK
LAESTRYGONIA
CASSIDY HAS CHOLERA
ARMED WITH VALOR