Steelfest Open Air, Metal festival

05/10/2026

CAMPING AREA. NOW AVAILABLE

One more accommodation option for Steelfest 2027 is now open.

If you are coming with a tent and dont need much more than a place to sleep, shower and get back to Steelfest, this is probably the cheapest solution.

STEEL Camping Area is only a 5-minute walk from the festival gates.

You get space for a 4 x 4 metre tent per group, toilets and showers, and the area is secured 24/7.

02/10/2026

About accommodation for Steelfest XV, 2027.

Hyvinkää is not a big city. When Steelfest comes, accommodation fills up fast. There are only a couple of hotels in town and by now I would not be surprised if the prices of the remaining rooms are already heading towards ridiculous.

But there is really no reason to limit your search to Hyvinkää.

Steelfest is held at about a five-minute walk from Hyvinkää railway station. Trains run frequently from Helsinki and other cities along railway line.

Take the train to Hyvinkää. Walk five minutes. You are at Steelfest.
We also have two accommodation options of our own for 2027.

STEELSTAY

We introduced Steelstay this year and all 130 places sold out.

It is exactly what the name says, you sleep inside Steelfest. Accommodation is in building directly in festival area.

Gym hall and/or classrooms. Toilets, showers, 24/7 security and valuables cloakroom. Bring your own sleeping bag and sleeping mat.

Nothing luxury. But cheap, easy and quite hard to beat when your journey back from Steelfest at end of the night is approximately 50 metres. Feedback from those who stayed there this year was also good.

HOTEL PACKAGE

This one was already sold out.
We managed to negotiate some additional capacity at Kiljava Resort so a limited number of rooms are available again.

The package is for two people and includes three nights from Thursday to Sunday, breakfasts and bus transportation between the hotel and Steelfest throughout the festival days.

Basically, once you arrive, accommodation and transportation to and from Steelfest are taken care of.

There are not many of these additional rooms.

So, if you already know you are coming. I would not leave accommodation until the last moment. Whether you take Steelstay, the Hotel Package or stay somewhere along the railway line, there are plenty of workable options.

-COMMANDER-

30/09/2026

Cleaning the STEEL Headquarters & Store and found this.
Somewhere in 2010.
Before Steelfest became public festival it was local drinking event with random collection of local artists thrown to stage.

According to this flyer we were at local youth centre in Hyvinkää. Doors at 15:00. Happy Hour. Two drinks for the price of one. First band at 16:30.

Sharp eyes may also notice where the name STEELFEST eventually came from. Even bad ideas can evolve.

Memories of the occasion are, for reasons probably visible on the flyer, extremely limited.

Having Necromancer on the bill was already enough to justify entire operation.

Lot has changed since then.
Physically, quite a lot.

Mentally, not so much.
If anything, we may have sunk little deeper.
Stilll degenerates who thought this was good idea.

In 2027, Steelfest celebrates 15 years as public festival.

The anniversary line-up is being built accordingly. More artists are still under negotiation. More remain unannounced.

Next spring:
STEELFEST XV.
15 years.
Full force.

16/09/2026

Raining outside and im sitting here at STEEL Headquarters & Store, waiting to get lunch with next door guys. So I have time to write something longer today.

We have been making own merchandise for about ten years ago, few shirts with artists we were already working with.
There was no webshop, website was rather sh*t. Even the Steelfest tickets were still handled by an outside ticket company.

Few shirts were just a few shirts. Then there was another one.
There were artists around us whose shirts/hoodies was difficult to find. Sometimes there was practically nothing available. Sometimes there was but I thought something else could be done than those usual catalogue designs.

So every now and thenmade something. Artist I already knew. An idea. A designer. Make the thing. Problem was I like doing it. So there was another one …and another.

Some point there were enough shirts around that putting some online seemed like idea. "webshop" at time was not exactly Amazon. Neither was the operation behind it and still isnt.

Orders were packed wherever there happened to be enough room. Shirts and boxes slowly occupied more and more of my home. One shelf became two. Meanwhile there were more artists. More shirts. Then hoodies. Patches. More boxes. It just got out of hand.

For years our own productions didnt even have name. They were just things we made with different artists. Eventually there were enough of them mixed with everything else we sold that it became useful to call them something.
STEEL LIMITED.
Name is new, mess behind it isnt. Somewhere along way we also settled on 100 pieces per design. When those are gone, those are gone.Thats about as complicated as it gets.

Despite what mount of merchandise might suggest, operation behind it hasnt exactly turned into Amazon either. Some sizes are still made only when somebody orders them. We pack the orders ourselves Hhere at Steel HQ.

Sometimes things take longer than we would like. Sometimes things just go completely f**king sideways. Like right now.
We recently packed around 50–60 customer orders into one larger shipment and sent it to Germany. It ended up in California. Not California via Germany. California instead of Germany. We still dont have convincing explanation for that one.

Fortunately our friends Sadistic Intent/Dark Real Records was able to help. Shipment was recovered and is now making its way back to us. After which we can try Germany again.

So thats more or less where we are after ten years.
More artists. More shirts. More hoodies. More boxes.

-COMMANDER-

10/09/2026

Fake Steelfest pages are multiplying again.

This is only official Steelfest page.
There are no alternative Steelfest pages.

Anything else using Steelfest name on Facebook has nothing to do with us.

-COMMANDER-

08/09/2026

Now available online. STEEL Limited-editions from:
Vothana, Barathrum, Sielunvihollinen, Funeral and Acherontas.

02/09/2026

STEELFEST 2027. HOTEL PACKAGE.
60% OF THE CAPACITY IS ALREADY SOLD.

Stay at Kiljava Resort, just 20 minutes by bus from the festival area.

This special package includes:
• Accommodation for 2 people in hotel room
• 3 nights. Thursday to Sunday
• Breakfasts
• Transportation to and from Steelfest throughout the festival days

A comfortable hotel stay, breakfast in the morning and direct transportation to the festival, all arranged in one package.

01/09/2026

Now available!
STEELSTAY. On-site accommodation at Steelfest

Introduced this year, Steelstay sold out completely.
Located directly in festival area. Affordable, convenient and right in heart of Steelfest.

Accommodation in a gym hall and/or classrooms. Toilets, showers, 24/7 security and valuables cloakroom included.

Bring your own sleeping bag and sleeping mat.

Only 130 places available.

30/08/2026

Steelfest XV + TBA

ABRUPTUM (SWE)

DODHEIMSGARD (NOR)
A rare festival appearance dedicated entirely to the band's 1995–1999 era, featuring material from Kronet Til Konge, Monumental Possession, Satanic Art, and 666 International.

ARCHGOAT
MYSTIFIER (BRA)
HORNA

OSCULUM INFAME (FRA)
30th anniversary of the band's first album "Dor-nu-Fauglith" (with guests). Only at Steelfest XV
ACHERONTAS (GRE)
Steelfest Exclusive "And Cosmos from Ashes to Dust...." The Final Presentation at Steelfest XV

SETH (FRA)
WINTERFYLLETH (UK)

GRAVE MIASMA (UK)
INFERNAL WAR (POL)
SARGEIST

NORDJEVEL (NOR)
ADORIOR (UK)
RIDE FOR REVENGE

SAOR (UK) Roots & Aura-set
MORTIFERA (FRA)
NYOGTHHAEBLISZ (USA)

KORGONTHURUS
CURSE UPON PRAYER
URN

WHITE RUNE
BYTHOS
MOOSEGUT (CAN)

MAQUAHUITL (USA)
CADAVERIC INCUBATOR
HIEROPHANY (MEX)

MALAKHIM (SWE)
AUTUMNS STRIFE (USA)
BLACK BEAST

GRIEVE
Never performed before. Never to perform again.
Steelfest 2027 will be the first and the last
NEXUL (USA)
BELETHS TRUMPET

KRATTI
ABYSSION
RIETAS
HELLGATE NECROSODOMY

Worldwide Gathering of Wolves from the Underground.