Hell’s Heroes Festival Announces Full Lineup of 2025 Featured Artists

   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, Sabïre, 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

Featuring:
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-ever 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