Below you’ll find the final announcement from this year’s Høstsabbat in Oslo. The full lineup isn’t below, which includes the likes of YOB, Gnome, Ahab, Domkraft and Hippotraktor, among others on a cross-genre bill that’s only bolstered by LLNN, Kanaan og Ævestaden, Redwood Temple and the others listed here. It’s funny because when they say below that, watching LLNN, “your spine and your knees will have trouble standing upright through this set,” they mean it because the band are so oppressively heavy — fair enough; they are that — but I first read and just thought they were saying you’re old. And again, fair enough; I am that.

This festival has a life and a persona of its own at this point and I’m lucky to have been a handful of times and attended its Springtime sister fest — Desertfest Oslo — earlier this year. If you get to attend Høstsabbat in October and you’ve never been, just know you’re in for something special.

From socials:

⛪️LAST BAND ANNOUNCEMENT⛪️

Autumn is growing near and the church bells will soon ring for the sabbath to commence!
We’re super stoked and proud to announce the last batch of bands for this year’s festival.

🪦 𝕷𝕷𝕹𝕹
If you mix an 80s space-horror movie soundtrack, with crushing hardcore vocals, and a thundering omnipresent bass, rumbling through your very human core, you get something close to LLNN. Your spine and knees will have trouble standing upright through this set.

🪦 𝕯𝖆𝖚𝖋ø𝖉𝖙
Experimental noise and punk outfit, with extra weight on mental. Daufødt always delivers extraordinary live shows, with frontwoman Annika never holding back.

🪦 𝕶𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖆𝖓 𝖔𝖌 𝕬𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖓
When psych-rock and jazz collides with wooly sweaters, fiddles and Norwegian cultural historic aesthetics, you get something like this. A cozy, soulful, one-of-a-kind musical phenomenon.

🪦 𝕾:𝖙 𝕰𝖗𝖎𝖐
The angst driven psychedelic doom outfit from Uppsala has risen from the permafrost to perform their swan songs echoing from the brink of outer space!

🪦 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖉𝖐𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖙
Raw, primal and loud. Blodkvalt mixes all things extreme, from the shrill piercing vocals, to the tenacious and intense wall of musical prowess.

🪦 𝕽𝖊𝖉𝖜𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝕿𝖊𝖒𝖕𝖑𝖊
Dynamic, raw, and sludgy. Having re-invented their sound, and come out harder, faster and punchier, the Temple is now filled with relentless, in-your-face metal!

🪦 𝖄𝖛𝖗𝖎𝖘
New outfit Yvris, brings their chugging, dark and melancholic take on humanity’s decay. Expect harsh vocals tied together by a gnarly band with sludge flair.

🪦 𝕹𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖗č𝖆𝖑𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖎𝖉
An exceptionally hard duo, delving into the Sámi religious and shamanistic themes, dragging us down to the abyss that is Rohttuáibmu, Rohttu’s kingdom of death and sickness.

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Always cool to see the Oslo-based Høstsabbat fest building its lineup over the months leading up to October. I have had the pleasure in years past of being there and, especially now having been to the city in Springtime for Desertfest this year, there’s a special vibe to Fall. Maybe it’s hanging around the Kulturkirken Jakob for a couple days, or the black-silver crows and ominous cloud clover, but you feel the encroaching darkness of the Norwegian winter without it actually being bitterly cold, and even in the city, at least by the church, there are dry leaves blowing in the wind.

The latest round of adds brings two Belgian, Gnome and Hippotraktor, and three Norwegian acts in Nadir, Ruun and Kambodsja, who join the previously-announced YOB, Ahab, Domkraft and New Money as the long-running Høstsabbat continues to meld styles and geographies for a gorgeously dark two-dayer experience. I’ll miss it this year, literally and figuratively, but as noted at the outset, it’s fun to keep up.

From socials:

🔥 Behold 🔥 – band announcement!

The sharp-eyed have maybe already caught a glimpse from a flyer or poster in Oslo, but we’re off to the races for real now!

🪦 GNOME (BE) – Three Belgian stoned gnomes with pointy hats and armed to the teeth with killer riffs and coordinated dances. What’s not to love?

🪦 HIPPOTRAKTOR (BE) – Sticking with the Belgian theme, this post-metal quintet finds the most intricate melodies and patterns in Space-Time continuum.

🪦 NADIR (NO) – Rooted in Black Metal, Nadir delivers charred, fast-paced, aggressive and relentless walls of existential dread.

🪦 RUUN (NO) – Promising brutality and slaughter, their corrosive death metal perfectly accompanies the dystopian human existence.

🪦 KAMBODSJA (NO) – Progressive indie punk rock, spiced with enough attitude and spunk to rip your face off.

Stay tuned for more announcements! 🔥⛪️🔥

Festival passes now up for sale: https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/hostsabbat-2025-festival-pass-billetter/1304111356

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Is it Høstsabbat announcement season already? Awesome. The rightly-lauded Oslo festival takes place every October, and I’ve been lucky enough to go a handful or so of times. This year, like last, they’ve nestled themselves into the weekend of Oct. 25, which is my daughter’s birthday, so that pretty much settles the issue for me.

That said, it’s still fun to keep up with who will be able to make the trip to Norway this Fall, and Høstsabbat is opening strong. The yet-unannouced YOB European tour that I’m hoping against hope coincides with a new album release either this summer or September (mind you, I know nothing) will make a stop through, and Swedish psych-noise riff masters Domkraft, as well as the nautically-themed death-doom extremists Ahab and, in keeping with the festival’s continued affinity, some hardcore-tinged whathaveyou from Denmark’s New Money.

That’s the first four and you get a decent sense of variety, which will of course increase as more acts are added. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen YOB, and it’s been seven years since they put out a record, so with the increase in fest activity for the Fall, it makes me think maybe they’re doing it up for an occasion. They don’t need the excuse, and if they did, it’s 25 years since the demo — they have a tape of it out for that — but still, playing a bunch of Eurofests seems like a long way to go for a tape reissue of your demo. Fingers crossed.

Hopefully by the time Høstsabbat takes place, we’ll know more about that, and obviously the rest of the lineup. You keep an eye and I’ll do the same. Here’s how it starts:

Sabbathians! ⛪️🔥

Easter is upon us, and we have a special easter egg to share with you all.

We are beyond excited to share the first four bands for Høstsabbat 2025!

Please welcome the doom-legends from Eugene, Oregon, the magic powertrio that is Yob!

Also, the hard hitting, whale-hunting trailblazers from the coral tombs, AHAB comes to rattle the Church!

Danish dynamite from the underground Copenhagen scene, mixing Hardcore and Noise Rock, 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘!

And lastly, the hashtronauts from outer space, the sonic jackhammer that is Domkraft!

Festival
passes now up for sale: https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/hostsabbat-2025-festival-pass-billetter/1304111356

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Høstsabbat Spotify Playlist