Hell’s Heroes festival has just unleashed its full lineup for 2026, including Bathory tribute, Blood Fire Death (featuring current and former members of Watain, Emperor, Mayhem, Aura Noir, and more), Loudness, Doro Pesch, (performing Warlock’s Triumph and Agony)by her former band Warlock), Enslaved (performing Vikingligr Veldi), Udo Dirkschneider (performing Balls to the Wall, in honor of its 40th Anniversary), and Voivod (delivering a fully-eighties set). Keep reading below for more information.
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“The cats are finally out of the bag for Hell’s Heroes 2026,” says festival organizer Christian Larson. “Unleash the hounds!” 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. On Thursday, March 19, Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, 2026, a worldwide contingent of music fans will again convene at Houston’s White Oak Music Hall for “America’s biggest metal party”, the Hell’s Heroes Festival. Now in its eighth year, the vaunted music fest will showcase a hand-picked selection of international heavy metal bands that includes both seminal, genre-pioneers, highly regarded modern day groups and more, in a can’t-miss concert event.
Hell’s Heroes VIII will also feature special live sets by German thrash titans, Tankard, Seattle’s Sanctuary (performing its 1988 debut, Refuge Denied), British Columbia bangers, 3 Inches of Blood, Germany’s Destruction (performing its 1986 LP, Eternal Devestation), Italian legends, Bulldozer, Cleveland speed punks, Midnight (performing its 2011 debut, Satanic Royalty), Portland pack, Toxic Holocaust, U.S. power metal legends, Virgin Steele, Swedish power trio, Grand Magus, Scandinavian speed sect, Hellbutcher, Kansas traditional heavy metal legends, Manilla Road, Jag Panzer (performing its 1984 debut, Ample Destruction), H.O.L.M.E.S – The Sound of W.A.S.P., led by titanic guitarist Chris Holmes, American vocalist, Leather Leone (performing songs from her former band, Chastain), Belgium breakneckers, Evil Invaders, Philadelphia dark metal unit, Crypt Sermon, Brazilian black metal bruisers, Power from Hell, Belgium black-speed gang, Bütcher, a reunion set by Los Angeles metal phenoms, White Wizzard, Toronto’s Cauldron performing songs from its previous incarnation, Goat Horn, German thrashers, Vulture, Virginia horror metal unit, BAT, Michigan modern metal retrogressors, Demon Bitch, U.S. medieval black-sorrow swarm, One of Nine, black-synth crush, Night of the Vampire, Texas tyrants, Steel Bearing Hand, Massachusetts crushers, Battle Ruins, French heavy prog collective, Syrinx, Mexican thrash mob, Phantom, Charleston heavy-speed ragers, Interceptor, Portuguese cult force, Ironsword, Boston lurkers, The Watcher, Los Angeles indie metal magicians, Angel Fury, and Texas thrashers, Labyrinth.
Hell’s Heroes 8:
March 19-21, 2026
White Oak Music Hall
Houston, TX
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