MANSFIELD — The summer’s most anticipated festival is back and bigger than ever in 2023. Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival returns July 14 to 16 and will feature an all-star rock and metal lineup led by headliners Slipknot, Pantera and Limp Bizkit, plus more than 65 tattoo artists and haunted attractions, all held at the […]
Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival
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Inkcarceration celebrates another successful year in Richland County
MANSFIELD — Event organizers have called this year’s Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival the most successful edition yet. The sold-out event welcomed 75,000 fans for three days of performances from 60 bands on multiple stages as well as appearances by more than 60 tattoo artists. Headliners included KORN, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed and Evanescence. Lee Tasseff of Destination […]
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Jose Mangin and City of the Weak talk Inkcarceration & Mansfield
MANSFIELD – “Anywhere in Ohio, I feel like it’s hard rock central.” Those are the words of prominent SiriusXM radio host Jose “Metal Ambassador” Mangin, who also hosted Inkcarceration last weekend on the grounds of the Ohio State Reformatory. Richland Source had a brief opportunity to interview him, and here’s what he had to say […]
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Inkcarceration Day Three: Car camping and downpours
MANSFIELD — Early Sunday morning, I was awakened by the sounds of loud raindrops thumping on the outside of my car windows. Muddy grass and few people emerging from surrounding tents caught my eye as I peeked outside of the makeshift curtain, an old black t-shirt tucked inside the window. We had camped out at […]
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From Michigan to Mansfield for a tattoo at Inkcarceration
MANSFIELD — Griffen Deering, of Clarkston, Michigan, lies prone on a tattooing table, his arm outstretched behind him while his tattoo sleeve-in-progress gets filled in. “The bones suck and the wrist sucks,” Deering says, wincing slightly. This is his third day on the tattoo table at Georgia-based Paragon Tattoo’s booth in the Ohio State Reformatory. […]
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Inkcarceration Day Two: Unspoken camaraderie through the haunted prison and spontaneous tarot readings
MANSFIELD — The shuttle (a big, yellow school bus) blasted songs from “Journey” and “Alice In Chains,” causing a group sing-a-long, including the bus-driver, as it took me and about 30 other campers from the Richland County Fairgrounds to The Ohio State Reformatory on Saturday. I was still giddy, recovering from Jacoby Shaddix (lead singer […]
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A tale of 2 birthdays & friends from multiple states at Inkcarceration
MANSFIELD — A squad of friends and family, wearing matching birthday-themed jerseys, descended on Inkcarceration this weekend to celebrate the 30th birthday of Dustin Lowman, a tattooed and pink-bearded steel mill worker from Middletown, Ohio. Lowman’s group included his father, his best friend, and a buddy, Levi Kroy of Reno, Nevada, whom Lowman initially met […]
