I just bought my two day pass yesterday morning as a payday present to myself and I'm extremely excited to be getting out of the country for a few days to visit this highly reputable festival. This will be my first time in Finland and my first time at Steelfest. Bands featured include Tormentor, Nokturnal Mortum, Dodheimsgard, Satanic Warmaster, Necros Christos, Watain, Destroyer 666, Moonsorrow, Necrophobic, Archgoat, Demilich, Skogen, Alghazanth, Cohol, Havukruunu and Forteresse. Here I come Land of a thousand Lakes...
https://www.steelfest.fi/steelfest-open-air-2018
https://www.steelfest.fi/main
Nater90 on
Whoa what a line up!! Enjoy man!!
Joel on
Thank you!
bad_american1992 on
Necrophobic and Archgoat.... have fun!!! Looking forward to the pictures
Joel on
Thank you man. I'll actually have natural light for a change, hahaha.
sandmanforce on
Tormentor! Have a great gig!
Joel on
That'll be one of the highlights right there, and the last seven bands are going to be announced on Facebook tomorrow morning. Thanks!
Joel on
That would be great. Lunar Poetry is one of my two favorites of theirs along with Voice of Steel.
Albtraum on
I'll be there too and I was last year. I just want to let you know that you can only enter the festival area once a day (which is pretty annoying in my opinion) and a beer is 6-7€ a can (0.4 or 0.5l I think...). In general it's expensive as fuck. Securities and the whole staff was absolutely friendly. If you've bought your ticket with accommodation, you will share an empty classroom (where all tables and chairs are put aside) or a sports hall with many other people and you have to take everything you need with you (there's nothing but the floor). Less then 5 minutes away from the area is a shopping mall (Finland is in some cases pretty expensive in general, in some it's the same as in Germany - can't speak for US prices of course) and somewhere around a koti pizza (which takes approximately 10 minutes or so to get there) which is something like pizza hut I guess? All around it was a great festival but very expensive. Hope you'll have a great time!
Joel on
Thanks for the information man! Very helpful. I'll pass it along to my friend who's going with me.
Ulven on
Have been since Hammer Open Air Finland ceased to exist best festival in here. Have been there since start and only one missed Steelfest for me. Enjoy the best festival here in Finland and maybe we meet there also with good luck by the means of that IM going be drunk as fuck!
Joel on
Will you be Azazel drunk? Hahaha...
https://youtu.be/fh2jlZ1m4V0
Ulven on
Hahaha :D have to say that I aim to remember at least the some of the bands :D At least the important ones like: Nokturnal Mortum, D666, Skogen fuckin Skogen if you havnt heard them one of the greates of them all! and of course mighty DHG! Havukruunu is great new Finnish black metal act! and many more cause there is just so many good bands in there!
Joel on
Skogen is a great Swedish band that I'm very familiar with. I really like them. Havukruunu is a band that I love! I've been listening to Kelle Surut Soi at work a lot over the past few months. Fantastic album from beginning to end. Destroyer and Watain were prevented from playing up in San Francisco, so I'm thrilled to be seeing that (especially Destroyer)!
Joel on
I'm excited to see if Dodheimsgard will play their old stuff from the 90s.
Ulven on
Great to hear man! And you will recognise me by the vest Im wearing and just give me a howl and we shall drink expensive finnish beer :D
Joel on
Haha, I'll do that!