Morbid Angel has cancelled their appearance at the 2022 Maryland Deathfest, set to take place May 26 - 29 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Festival organizers prefaced the disheartening Morbid Angel news with an encouraging update about Deicide, in the following press release:

"We're pleased to say that for the first time ever, Deicide will be performing the Legion album in its entirety at MDF 2022! They will be performing on Sunday, May 29th at Edison Lot.

In other news, we need to report that the following bands have cancelled:

Morbid Angel will no longer be performing at MDF 2022. Despite trying to convince them to not cancel, the only thing we've been told is that the band 'will not be playing MDF or any other shows in the current climate,' so we'll let you interpret that however you see fit.

Archgoat and Valkyrja were due to tour together, but the tour fell apart, and despite attempts to salvage at least one of those bands playing only MDF, it just wasn't possible.

Blaze Of Perdition have also cancelled due to their tour falling apart.

Lastly, Antichrist have cancelled.

Immolation will be replacing Valkyrja on Sunday at Edison Lot.
Profanatica will be replacing Archgoat on Sunday at Rams Head.
Akhlys will be replacing Blaze Of Perdition on Friday at Rams Head.
Sulfuric Cautery will be replacing Antichrist on Friday at Soundstage.

As a reminder, ALL tickets for 2020 / 2021 are automatically valid for 2022. You don't need to take any action for these tickets to be valid."

Further details can be found at this location.