The Beyond the Gates Festival 2025 has unveiled its final lineup, adding eleven new acts, including Opeth, Paradise Lost, Candlemass, Taake, Tribulation, Lucifer, Hexvessel, Misþyrming, Attic, Helheim, and Gehenna. With eighteen bands making their festival debut, this year promises the most diverse lineup yet.
Highlights include Taake’s 20th-anniversary performance of Doedskvad and Gehenna’s first-ever show with the original lineup, featuring tracks from their newly re-released early albums: The First Spell, Seen Through the Veils of Darkness (The Second Spell), and Malice.
The four-day metal event takes place July 30–August 2, 2025, in Bergen, Norway, across venues like USF and Grieghallen, known for its ties to black metal history. Tickets are available at this location.
Festival booker Torgrim Øyre comments:
“So this is it, the full line-up for Beyond the Gates 2025 – Chapter XIII. What is more natural than announcing our thirteenth chapter on Friday the 13th?
What can we say – we are immensely proud of what is without a doubt our most varied line-up to date. 18 of the announced bands have never played the festival before, which we think is a statement of good health for a niche festival operating for 13 years.
The 2025 line-up boasts a wide selection of curated sets, including a first ever live appearance of the original Gehenna line-up. The reformed band will perform a set based on their newly re-released three first albums. These are jewels in the Norwegian Black Metal canon and their brilliance can not be overstated. Pure class.
King Diamond will play his first solo concert in Bergen ever, and his first show in Norway in 19 years.
Opeth has just released their barnstormer ‘The Last Will and Testament’ to great acclaim. The album sees the band return to some of their metal roots, while still keeping their timeless prog elements firmly in place. What an album and what a treat it will be to see the Swedish master in the legendary Grieghallen.
Abbath Doom Occulta will close the festival by bringing his incredibly awesome ‘Return to the Raven Realms’ tour to Grieghallen, featuring songs from his period in Immortal exclusively. Mind you, the production is a sight to behold.”
Daily Lineup:
Wednesday, July 30 @ USF Verftet:
Triptykon (performing Celtic Frost)
I Am Morbid Destruction (‘Infernal Overkill’ 40 years)
Hellbutcher
Attic
Hellripper
Thursday, July 31 @ Grieghallen
King Diamond (First Norwegian show in 19 years!)
Paradise Lost
Lucifer
Misþyrming
Thursday Day Shift:
Koldbrann Askeregn Nihilvm
Thursday Night Shift:
Darkened Nocturne Slaughtercult
Friday, August 1 @ Grieghallen
Opeth
Candlemass (40 years of doom)
Tribulation
Hexvessel
Friday Day Shift:
Furia
Eternal Evil
Morax
Friday Night Shift:
Absu (ft. Zemial, 30th anniversary of ‘The Sun Of Tiphareth’
Saturday, August 2 @ Grieghallen
Abbath Doom Occulta (Immortal set)
Taake (‘Doedskvad’ 20th anniversary)
Gehenna (first show with original lineup)
Helheim
Dark Sonority
Feature Image Photo Credit: Chris Loomis
