INFERNAL WAR from Poland are about Death, Hatred, Satanism, Anti-Christianity @ WII (according to M.A.)
I didn´t stay the whole gig but something happended at some point and the band just walked out without finishing the set. Heard someone got ill but haven´t been googling, so dunno. Sounded good as long I was there, tho. Not much activity on social media so no statements there.

Interview from 2017 by Bardo Methodology
[Live clip by Saatanan Aslakki]

https://www.facebook.com/infernalwar
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Norwegian/Finnish/French Black Metal since 2014. (The live bassist is Polish, so very international:))

Both guitarists appeared also in other bands playing at the festival. BST in THE ORDER OF APOLLYON (Fra) and Shatraug in HORNA (Fin) Last album “Serpents ov Old” was released in 2021. The drummer used to play in TSJUDER Never heard/saw this band before but good stuff!
AntiChristian Drums Doedsadmiral Vocals Shatraug Guitars, Bass BST Guitars, Bass.

[Live clip by Gronn Onland]

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Black metal from Mikkeli, Finland. Formed in 2014 and has so far released a demo, a split (w. EXITIUS), a buch of EP´s, a livealbum and finally a full lenght in -21. (All on Werewolf Records?)
Really good liveband!! One of my many finds at the festival I need to pay some more attention to.
Band: SS Exiler Drums Crusher Guitars Lord Warmoon Vocals, Bass Serpent Caesar of the Dark Omen Guitars (Also vocals and scythe in MALIGNAMENT)


[Live clip by Saatanan Aslakki]

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“Initially, Akitsa was made up exclusively of OT and Néant, who came together because of their common taste for “pure” black metal . Éric Syre joined the group after the summer of 2008 , after a tour of Canada with the French Peste Noire and Sombres Forêts . The tour was called “Les treize nuits de la plague”” –

https://www.facebook.com/theorderofapollyon
www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2019/08/28/the-order-of-apollyon-interview/
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MAQUAHUITL from California, US. Interesting band.
“Conversation with MT about Maquahuitl, Mexico today and of course about the Prehispanic Gods and the Underworld: Mictlán” – an interview with M.T. by APrioriKreuz  at elmisantropo.com

[Live clip by Mtnz_19]

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A bit tricky one…but A.M.S.G. was actually SEIGNEUR VOLAND
The M.A. : “Xaphan conceptualized the band in 1996 while serving a prison sentence for grave desecration. He was released in April 1999 and recruited the other members.
Reformed to play live for 3 reunion gigs in 2004 (Netherlands, Switzerland and France) and again in 2019 (Finland, Belgium, Germany and Ukraine), Japan in 2020 (Tokyo and Osaka), and again in 2022 when they played a surprise set at SteelFest using the name “AMSG”.”

So there you go. Need to figure out where to sort them in the band list:/ Really cool band live!
Btw..Steelfest still got some official band merch to buy from their webpage!
[Live clip by Gronn Onland]

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Finnish folklore- and nature-inspired melodic black metal.Founded in 2020.

Band: Petri Mäkipää – Drums Henri Villberg – Bass & Vocals Emmi Silvennoinen – Synths & Vocals Tuukka Ahonen – Guitars Kimmo Tukiainen – Guitars Tuomas Karhumäki – Vocals Kim Strömsholm – Vocals (hope i got it right?)

 

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IKU-TURSO Finnish/Dutch black metal paganism, darkness & death since 2017.

 

They released the “Ikuinen Steelfest MMXXII Rehearsal” on a limited edt cassette (50 copies,no digital release) 12th of May 1922. A Few copies were given to the audience after the gig and band copies sold at the festival exclusively (according to Discogs. Kinda odd. And cool:)

nd. (Englis

Iku-Turso is a mythological Finnish sea monster which appears in the Kalevala, the national epic of Karelia and Finlandh version here)
“We are the distant cold northwind that blows through a legacy of magical Nordic Black Metal – honest to our past, true to ourselves and in respect to the people contributing to the underground metal community.”
-Sovereign Korpituli 2020

Band: Sovereign – Lafawijn – Ruto – Anzillu – F.

 

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