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HELL'S HEROES Festival Reveals Band Set Times

By Larry Petro, News Monkey
Thursday, March 13, 2025 @ 12:19 AM

White Oak Music Hall On March 20-22

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On Thursday, March 20, Friday, March 21, and Saturday, March 22, 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.

Hell's Heroes 2025 will be 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, British thrash metal band, ONSLAUGHT, (performing its 1985 debut Power from Hell), Irish Celtic folk/black metal tribe, PRIMORDIAL, Swedish speed metal sect, ENFORCER, Houston crossover thrash crushers, DRI, original DANZIG six-stringer, John Christ, Greek avant-garde act, ZEMIAL, Canadian trad-metalists, SABIRE, 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 black metal band NECROFIER, and is the lead singer of Houston heavy metal band NIGHT COBRA.

Set times for each of the three days of Hell's Heroes have just been released! The schedule is as follows:
Thursday, March 20:

INSIDE:

1:00-1:30 PM: Black Jackal
2:10-2:40 PM: Chamber Mage
3:15-3:45 PM: Savage Master
4:25-4:55 PM: Castle Rat
5:40-6:25 PM: Attacker
7:00-7:30 PM: Bewitcher
8:20-9:00 PM: Raven

OUTSIDE:

12:30-1:00 PM: Sanhedrin
1:30-2:15 PM: Satan
2:40-3:25 PM: Fifth Angel
3:25-4:25 PM: Enforcer
4:55-5:40 PM: Hirax
6:15-7:00 PM: DRI
7:20-8:20 PM: Warlord
8:50-9:55 PM: Abbath

Friday, March 21:

INSIDE:

1:00-1:30 PM: Knights & Gallow
2:15-2:45 PM: Hitten
3:30-4:00 PM: Haunt
4:45-5:25 PM: Sabire
6:00-6:40 PM: High Spirits
7:30-8:10 PM: Sadistic Intent
9:10-9:50 PM: Departure Chandelier

OUTSIDE:

12:30-1:00 PM: Solicitor
1:30-2:15 PM: Nasty Savage
2:45-3:30 PM: Onslaught
4:00-4:45 PM: Gammacide
5:15-6:00 PM: Absu
6:30-7:00 PM: Omen
8:10-9:10 PM: Cavalera
9:40-10:55 PM: Crimson Glory

Saturday, March 22:

INSIDE:

1:00-1:30 PM: White Magician
2:15-2:45 PM: Overdose
3:30-4:00 PM: Zemial
4:45-5:25 PM: The Night Eternal
6:00-6:40 PM: Blood Ceremony
7:25-8-05 PM: John Christ
9:05-9:45 PM: Spectral Wound

OUTSIDE:

12:30-1:00 PM: Night Cobra
1:30-2:15 PM: Hellripper
2:45-3:00 PM: Primordal
4:00-4:45 PM: Goatwhore
5:15-6:00 PM: SA Slayer
6:40-7:25 PM: Coroner
8:05-9:05 PM: Samael
9:40-10:55 PM: Saxon

In addition to the three day lineup of metal madness, Hell's Heroes will feature special pre-parties for those that just can't bang thy head enough! The loaded lineup for the 2025 Pre-Party, set for March 19, will feature searing sets from NYC heavy metal legends, RIOT, Connecticut power metal deceivers, LLIEGE LORD, British bruisers, SATAN, and performances by Houston's HELSTAR, Sweden's CENTURY, American-German act, SENTRY (ex-MANILLA ROAD), Philadelphia's SPITER, Canada's ICE WAR, Seattle's DARK MEDITATION, Dallas' MYTH CARVER, and Austin's MEAN MISTREATER, respectively, in what promises to be a kult kick-off of the highest order.

Additionally, Hell's Heroes will include post-show afterparties, the lineups for which are now available. The late-night revelry registry is as follows:

Thursday, March 20:

White Oak Music Hall (downstairs): Worm, Leather Church
White Oak Music Hall (upstairs): Quest Master, Fief

Friday, March 21:

White Oak Music Hall (downstairs): Holder
White Oak Music Hall (upstairs): Beastermaker, Void

Saturday, March 22: