Annual Houston Metal Festival Takes Place March 20-22 2025

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On Thursday, March 20, Friday, March 21, and Saturday, March 22, 2025, a worldwide contingent of music fans will convene at Houston's White Oak Music Hall for the Hell's Heroes Festival. Now in its seventh year, the celebrated three-day music fest will showcase a hand-picked selection of international heavy metal bands that includes seminal, genre-pioneers, highly regarded modern day groups and more, in a can't-miss concert event. Tickets for Hell's Heroes VII are on sale now.

Today, Hell's Heroes unleashes the full wave of exclusive, confirmed acts for HHVII, headlined by new wave of British heavy metal champions, SAXON (performing a set based around 1982's The Eagle Has Landed), and Norwegian black metal band, ABBATH (playing an IMMORTAL-heavy classic set). Joining SAXON and ABBATH atop the bill will be American progressive metal band, CRIMSON GLORY, Latin-American death-thrash legends, CAVALERA, featuring founding SEPULTURA members Max and Iggor Cavalera (performing an exclusive Third World Trilogy set), eclectic Swiss sonic explorers, SAMAEL, and U.S. heavy metal unit, WARLORD.

Hell's Heroes VII will also feature special sets by legendary Swiss metal pioneers, Coroner, San Antonio cult act, S.A. Slayer, California thrash metal titans, Sadus, British thrash metal band, Onslaught, (performing its 1985 debut Power from Hell), Canadian speed metal mavens, Exciter, Irish Celtic folk/black metal tribe, Primordial, Swedish speed metal sect, Enforcer, English thrash fiends, Onslaught, original Danzig six-stringer, John Christ, Philadelphia epic-doom denizens, Crypt Sermon, Greek avant-garde act, Zemial, Canadian trad-metalists, Sabire, American occult doom act, Hour of 13, German dark metal unit, The Night Eternal, and upwards of two dozen more global A-list metal acts, respectively.

"We are extremely excited with the exclusive lineup for Hell's Heroes 2025!," says festival organizer Christian Larson. "We have some outlandishly cool, special sets in the works for the fans and can't wait to get it started. See you in Houston!" In addition to booking Hell's Heroes, Larson also performs as guitarist/vocalist for the melodic black metal band NECROFIER, and is the lead singer of Houston heavy metal band NIGHT COBRA.

Launched in 2018, Hell's Heroes has become one of North America's premiere heavy music platforms and an annual, go-to destination for metalheads, globally. In its review of Hell's Heroes 2023, Knotfest called the event "a lineup that truly spans generations and has a lot of something for anyone into 'heavy'", adding that "the atmosphere of the fest is like nothing of it's kind in North America." The Houston Press proclaimed, "Over a relatively short time, the two-day metal music fest has become one of the premier events of its kind in the United States", the Houston Chronicle tabbed Hell's Heroes as "America's biggest metal party", and Decibel hailed the fest as "an international melting pot of eras, influences, and legacies both vintage and futuristic."

Hell's Heroes 7:

• March 20-22, 2025
• White Oak Music Hall
• Houston, TX