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Hell’s Heroes Festival Books First Wave of 2026 Featured Artists Including UDO, Sanctuary, Tankard, Voivod, Virgin Steele, 3 Inches of Blood, and More

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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. Today, Hell’s Heroes unleashes the first wave of exclusive, confirmed acts for HHVIII, including German legend, Udo Dirkschneider (performing a special “Balls to the Wall” set in honor of the Accept LP’s 40th Anniversary), Seattle sceamers, Sanctuary, German thrash titans, Tankard, and Canadian avant-garde greats, Voivod (delivering a fully-eighties set), respectively. Tickets for Hell’s Heroes VIII are on sale now at this location. Continue reading →


PODCAST: Episode 131: Doro Pesch on Magic Diamonds, Drive-In Shows, and New Music

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Ghost Cult caught up with the great Doro recently to discuss her long-awaited best-of album Magic Diamonds – Best Of Rock, Ballads & Rare Treasures, released from Doro’s own label, Rare Diamonds Productions. The exhaustive collection includes 56 songs on three CDs with a total of almost four hours with 20 rock songs, 18 ballads, and 18 rare treasures, offering a ton of music and content. It also has an official 4LP version, on colored vinyl. His and Hers perfume, a scarf, and a poster, all personally designed by Doro herself. We chatted about the collection, revisiting these decades of songs and unreleased music, her favorite collaborators such as Lemmy, Peter Steel, Udo, Blaze Bayley, Tarja, and more, her take on the Drive-In shows she did at the start of the pandemic, and her new album she is working on! Purchase the boxed set (available in Europe only) and check out our chat with this legend of Heavy Metal!  Continue reading →