METAL ON THE HILL is on fire for its next round! This year the most popular open-air venue in Graz, the Schlossberg Stage Kasematten, will burn for metal once again. Napalm Records and Napalm Events are happy to announce the final lineup of this year’s edition, which will be headlined by #1 charting band FEUERSCHWANZ and metal icons STRATOVARIUS! With melodic death metal force HIRAES, local heroes WATCH THEM FAIL...

t’s time for another band announcement for the Metal On The Hill festival: Let INSOMNIUM capture your imagination and welcome Finland’s melodic metal conjurers to the festival bill with exclusive Austrian show in 2017!

Over the last decade INSOMNIUM has slowly but surely made itself a household name among the melodic deathsters. Formed in 1997 in eastern Finland, these stern men have since redefined the boundaries of a whole genre....

Austria's METAL ON THE HILL FESTIVAL, with its most unique location of the "Kasemattenbühne" at the picturesque Schloßberg in Graz, welcomes another exciting opening act for 2017: PAIN IS!

Founded in 2002, followed by numerous shows all over Europe and 4 studio records later, Austria's PAIN IS already left a stamp with their individual style of music called 'Paincore', characterized by heavy rocking guitars, stomping drums, booming bass and melodic...

Is anybody surprised that a town bearing a name like Eisenerz (= iron ore) is home to an absolute metal giant like NAPALM RECORDS? Of course not. Much more baffling though is that the Austrian state of Styria – to which Eisenerz belongs – hasn`t seen a metal-only festival in ages! Luckily Napalm`s live department NAPALM EVENTS has now stepped in to riff all of Southern Austria out of its...