Best Music Festival: Hell’s Heroes
Devil horns up for the best music festival in Houston, Texas, the all-out assault metal fans here and abroad know as Hell’s Heroes. The event began as a single-day offering to the metal gods back in 2018, survived a global pandemic and kept rocking, bringing fans of the genre from far off to Houston for bills packed with local, national and international acts which span generations.
The festival has grown over the years, from the indoor rooms at White Oak Music Hall, its perennial home, to the concert hall’s spacious outdoor lawn. Its eighth edition has already been announced for March 2026 and will include three days of metal mayhem featuring acts from Germany, Japan, Norway and elsewhere. Best of all, Hell’s Heroes is homegrown, created by local musicians and music industry insiders who saw a need and filled it while making Houston a metal music destination.
This article appears in Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2025.
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