The 13th edition of Steelfest is happening in a bit more than 8 months and over the weekend they announced 30 confirmed names for 2025, with of course a nice selection of the top of the Finnish underground scene and plenty of pretty impressive names again, including some exclusive shows of bands like Absu, Osculum Infame, The True Werwolf, Imprecation, Hellwind & Vritrahn and more! Time to get those tickets, we’d say!
With a first batch of 14 names, 2023-s Steelfest XI is promising to be quite the impressive edition again with a solid line-up of the obscure, extreme and underground!
The SteelFest organization announces a brand new Summer festival called SteelHordes to bridge the already way too long gap!
Steelfest just added 6 more great names to their 2020 line-up!
Bestial death/black metal outfit Deiphago set the date for their upcoming piece of destructive chaos!
The 2019 line-up of Steelfest is getting close to complete now with yet another 8 names added…
The Finnish festival Steelfest Open Air can be seen as one of the most renowned underground metal festivals in Europe with every year people coming down to the small city of Hyvinkää from all over the world. They also manage to offer us the best from the black, death and doom metal world every single […]
The line-up for next year’s Steelfest Open Air is complete and you can feel the darkness and evil already approaching!
Another 10 names thrown into the mix and things are only getting more interesting…
The organisation of Steelfest Open Air yet again impresses with the first names of the 2018 line-up!
Year 2023 is closing out and we at GRIMM have our sights set for next year and all the amazing shows and festivals coming up, but before that, let’s look into this past year in photos once again with a selection of Emerik’s favorite pictures, going from extreme and underground, to legendary bands like Nocturnal Sorcery, Horna, Nunslaughter, Merrimack, Pensées Nocturnes, Sex Messiah, Kalmankantaja, VV, Sick Of It All, Lordi, Michael Monroe, The Hellacopters, Possessed, The Mission, Lorna Shore, Kuvotus, Ingested, Voivod, Sodom, Watain, Burst, Full Of Hell, Demolition 23, and Brujeria!
The outdoor stage on the 2nd day of Steelfest XI was the place for explosive and often high velocity performances by Tsatthoggua, Sex Messiah, Grenadier, Witchtrap, Kalmankantaja and Behexen!
The second day of Steelfest XI delivered another serving of proper dark underground and extreme metal on the indoors stage with performances from Gravespawn, Ymir, Infernal, Totalselfhatred, Ride For Revenge, Gehenna and Carpathian Forest!
The first day of Steelfest XI also brought a series of explosive and high energy performances to the outdoor stage with Azazel, Utuk Xul, Nocturnal Sorcery, Loits, Pest and Deströyer 666!
On Ascension day, Steelfest XI brought a great collection of stellar underground bands to the festival’s indoor stage with Coraxul, Nattverd, Hail Conjurer, Sacrilegious Impalement, The Committee, Horna and Marduk on the first day of the 3-day fest!
Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!
Steelchaos is always a fantastic event to get to take pictures at, especially with on day 1 shows from Satan’s Fall, Malicious, Flame, Barathrum, Belphegor and Sacramentum!
An intense last day of Steelfest 2022 with performances of Blood Chalice, Alfahanne, Kalmankantaja, Valkyrja, Antimateria and Taake!
Pictures of the 3rd day of the special 10th anniversary edition of Steelfest!
The 2nd day of Steelfest XI, a day with intense performances from bands like Ymir, Infernal, Totalselfhatred, Ride For Revenge, and Kalmankantaja, a couple of firsts with Gravespawn and Grenadier visiting Europe for the first time, blistering shows by Tsatthoggua, Sex Messiah, and Witchtrap, and legendary black metal acts Gehenna, Behexen and Carpathian Forest!
Steelfest XI was the first time to be a full 3-day event, and the first day was killer with bands like Coraxul, Azazel, Nattverd, Utuk Xul, Hail Conjurer, Nocturnal Sorcery, Sacrilegious Impalement, Loits, The Committee, Pest, Horna, Deströyer 666 and Marduk!
Steelchaos day two was clearly the main day for many people as it clearly drew the biggest crowd with a fantastic lineup from old school heavy metal from Chevalier and Lord Fist to skull crushing death metal from Cadaveric Incubator and Torture Killer and to good ol’ Finnish black metal from Horna. And of course the much anticipated anniversary show by Venom Inc. celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic ‘Black Metal’ album!
Steelchaos is back at full force and we were there! With Satan’s Fall, Malicious, Flame, Barathrum, Belphegor and Sacramentum it was a great first day of this year’s edition!
A last day of underground extreme metal madness to wrap up an extra long anniversary edition of Steelfest, which was both exhausting and absolutely intense from the beginning to the end!
An excruciating long and exhausting, but amazing 3rd day of this special and extra long anniversary edition of Steelfest!
The second day of the anniversary edition of Steelfest delivered yet again stellar performance after stellar performance!
The 1st day of the 10th anniversary edition of Steelfest brought us Trve Kvlt music, Finnish black metal legends and international acts with an intensity that was immense, and was only the beginning of a massive 3 days of this that was to come still…
The second day of SteelHordes 2021 was every bit as impressive and cathartic as the earlier day with stellar acts from the Finnish underground!
