For the eleventh time – we’d say consecutive, but you know, COVID… – we found ourselves traveling to Hyvinkää to visit the biggest extreme metal event in the country, if not the Nordics at the very least: Steelfest Open Air 2023. Already in the train to town, one could hear people from different countries, lots of Americans and Germans for instance, who were slowly gathering for this 3-day marathon of darkness, black metal, and way-too-sunny weather for the season.
Ruttokosmos
Sotherion
Vornat
Evil Incarnate
Witchcraft
Pensées Nocturnes
Urn
Merrimack
Nordjevel
Torture Killer
True Black Dawn
Austere
Nattefrost
NunSlaughter
Urgehal
Satanic Warmaster
Warmoon Lord
Photos by Marco Manzi
