Saxon, Abbath, Cavalera and many more are set to play the 2025 Hell’s Heroes Festival, set for March 20 to 22 at White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas. Entering its seventh year, the three-day music fest will showcase a hselection of international heavy metal bands that includes genre pioneers and modern-day groups. Tickets are available here.
Hell’s Heroes VII will be headlined by New Wave of British Heavy Metal stalwart Saxon, performing a set based around its 1982 album “The Eagle Has Landed,” and Norwegian black metal band Abbath, playing an Immortal-heavy classic set. The bill also features American progressive metal band Crimson Glory, Latin-American death-thrash legend Cavalera, featuring founding Sepultura members Max and Iggor Cavalera performing an exclusive “Third World Trilogy” set, eclectic Swiss band Samael and U.S. heavy metal unit Warlord.
The festival also will 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 Sabïre, American occult doom act Hour of 13, German dark metal unit The Night Eternal and over two dozen more global metal acts.
“We are extremely excited with the exclusive lineup for Hell’s Heroes 2025!” festival organizer Christian Larson said. “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 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.
2025 lineup:
Saxon (“The Eagle Has Landed” set)
Samael (“Blood Ritual” and “Ceremony of Opposites” set)
Abbath (Immortal-heavy classic set)
Crimson Glory
Warlord (classic set)
Cavalera (“Third World Trilogy” – first three Sepultura albums set)
SA Slayer (reunion)
Sadus
Coroner
Exciter
Absu (Featuring Zemial: “The Sun of Tiphareth” set)
Gammacide (reunion)
D.R.I. (“Dealing with It” and “Thrash Zone”-heavy set)
Hirax
Enforcer
Fifth Angel
Onslaught (‘Power From Hell’ set)
Primordial
Hellripper
Nasty Savage
Goatwhore (“Eclipse of Ages into Black” set)
Savage Master
Crypt Sermon
Zemial
Raven
Blood Ceremony
John Christ
Departure Chandelier (first show in North America)
Sadistic Intent
Bewitcher
Attacker
Solicitor
High Spirits
Sabire
Haunt
Hitten
Castle Rat
Chamber Mage
Knight & Gallow
Night Cobra
The Night Eternal
Hour of 13
Overdose
White Magician
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