Barbarianism 5 Extreme Metal Festival Announced - Wellington

Fiends for the most brutally heavy and outright depraved sounds emerging from dank garage / basement practise spaces throughout Aotearoa NZ will be converging upon Pōneke's twin metal pillars — Valhalla and Underworld Tavern — this winter for Barbarianism 5. A lovingly curated three night festival of local aural extremity, Barbarianism 5 hosts sixteen acts from throughout Aotearoa, including a healthy crop of metal maniacs from our windswept capital. Also featuring on-site market stalls, get to work crafting your ultimate battle jacket and grab yourself a pass for all three nights "of the best Black / Death / Doom metal NZ has to offer", so you don't miss any of the carnage brought to you by Antipodean Darkness...

Barbarianism 5 Extreme Metal Fest

Thursday 31st July - Underworld Tavern, Wellington w/ Celtic Death, Bleed This Earth, Insidious Retch, Vigilante, Dark Divinity
Friday 1st August - Valhalla, Wellington w/ Pervertor, Slave Cadaver, Osseous Tomb, Windswept, Daedric Seer
Saturday 2nd August - Valhalla, Wellington w/ Execrate, Sciolism, Bodysiege, Horrendous Disfigurement, Decimation Hammer, Methchrist

Festival passes on sale HERE via UTR (doors 6.30pm, bands 7pm)

Experience Dark Divinity's 'Left For Dead', from their 2022 album Unholy Rapture...

Smash play on 'Blighted Altar' from Osseous Tomb's 2023 EP Ódio...

Listen to 'Hate Commands' from METHCHRIST's 2023 album Pestilential Warfare of the Black Flame...

Press release:

The fifth gathering of NZ's darkest and heaviest extreme metal!

Three nights of the best Black/Death/Doom metal NZ has to offer! One night at the fantastic Underworld tavern and two nights at our beloved mecca Valhalla! Vendors with interesting and exciting stalls, awesome sets from carefully chosen bands of the highest calibre and the best crowd Wellington can gather!

A huge lineup this year, a titanic gathering of the best performing monster bands! DECIMATION HAMMER, SLAVE CADAVER, HORRENDOUS DISFIGUREMENT (Ahu), VIGILANTE (Kap), METHCHRIST (Dun), OSSEOUS TOMB, DAEDRIC SEER (Akl), INSIDIOUS RETCH, BODYSIEGE, SCIOLISM (Giz), BLEED THIS EARTH, WINDSWEPT, EXECRATE (Kap), PEVERTOR, DARK DIVINITY, CELTIC DEATH

Only 70 bucks for the whole fest die-hards or 30 bucks a night, but honestly none of it is to be missed!