Steelfest has announced the first batch of 27 confirmed names for the 2026 edition with again a great mix of cult heavyweights, unique one-time performances and first ever live shows!
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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!
Chinese atmospheric black metal power house Zuriaake signs to Season of Mist and enters a new part of their career!
Steelfest just added 6 more great names to their 2020 line-up!
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 […]
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!
Yesterday SteelChaos revealed all of their 14 names in the line-up of this year’s edition. One of the bands demanded all the bands to be released at once so we […]
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The final day of Steelfest Open Air always hits differently. Fatigue, devotion and one last descent into the underground. We picked out 5 performances again that we think you should check out for sure tomorrow on Day 3 in case your energy level isn’t high enough to go see everything, going from Dutch black metal icons Cirith Gorgor, the icy pressence of Imperial Crystalline Entombment, doom and gloom from Shape of Despair, a rare and most likely very emotionally charged performance by Lifelover to extreme metal innovators Tormentor to close the weekend! See you there!
Steelfest officially opens its doors in about 3 hours and let the madness start. Between your first beers and first riffs, take a moment to check our Day 2 must-see bands, going from a first show from industrial black supergroup Antihuman Industries, the return of ukrainian atmospheric black outfit Severoth, the live madness of Concrete Winds, a nightmare-fueled Akhlys and as closer a now already legendary show by underground icons Beherit! Tomorrow will be massive!
Less than 24 hours until Steelfest Open Air begins. First beers, first distortion, first chaos. With a bunch of excellent acts throughout the whole weekend, we like to highlight a handful of performances for every festival day you really shouldn’t miss. With on day 1 festival openers Evil Angel, the return of US black metal duo FIN, a once-in-a-lifetime 40th anniversary show from war metal icons Holocausto, old school Enthroned music with Sabathan and an absolutely relentless end of the day through Revenge — five very different ways to properly start a weekend of underground madness. If you’re going, what are you looking forward to?
It’s looking like Steelfest is going to sell out this year, but if you’re still somehow on the fence if you should go next week or not, here are some solid reasons why you should make the effort this year… If you’re going, why is Steelfest THE event you’re investing your time and money in?
Finland’s summer festival season is stacked again. From underground black metal rituals to lakeside legends and city concerts with global names, we picked 12 events worth your time this summer with Steelfest, Allas Live, Sonic Rites, Ankea, Nummirock, Tuska, CoolHead Live, Dark River Festival, John Smith Rock, Ilosaarirock, Hellsinki Metal Festival and SaariHelvetti
Finnish festival Steelfest is a true celebration of the underground, but it you’re not convinced yet, here are some reasons why you should go
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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 pictures of another exciting day at Steelfest 2022!
Pictures of the 1st day of celebration of the dark, obscure and extreme at the 10th anniversary edition of Steelfest!
The pictures of a more diverse and even hotter 2nd day of Steelfest 2019!
The pictures of the first day of death and black metal at Steelfest 2019!
Steelfest 2018 was again a weekend filled with underground music celebrating black mass and pagan rituals. Check out the pictures we took at the event!
A look at what grim, dark and frostbitten looks like… 2 days of underground and obscure extreme metal at Steelfest Open Air in pictures.
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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!
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An excruciating long and exhausting, but amazing 3rd day of this special and extra long anniversary edition of Steelfest!
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The second day of the anniversary edition of Steelfest delivered yet again stellar performance after stellar performance!
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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…
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The second day of Steelfest 2019 offered more diversity with different styles of black and death!
First day of Steelfest brought one after the other high quality black and death metal band!
2 days of celebrating darkness, pagan spirits, satan and underground music… Check out the full report of Steelfest 2018 here.
Two days of the best underground artists the metal scene has to offer at the Finnish city that brought forth a ton of black metal bands, sit back and let the darkness come over you!
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