In 2007, the Heavy/Power Metal band Dream Evil inaugurated the first edition of the House of Metal festival with the song “The Book of Heavy Metal”, a song that has become a bit of a signum/anthem for this band. On the festival’s 15th edition, we have therefore once again invited the band, but this time to end the 15th edition of the festival on the Idun stage.

Naglfar are Black Metal-veterans that formed as early as 1992 in Umeå and that have since then released seven full-length albums, where “Cerecloth” (2020) is the latest in the line. Naglfar visited House of Metal on the more intimate Studion stage back in 2016, but now it’s once again time to show up on the big stage where the band last played in 2013. This will be the band’s first gig since the release of “Cerecloth” (2020) due to the pandemic, so a bit of a release party in other words.

The Night Flight Orchestra is a Swedish progressive hard rockband from Landskrona founded in 2007 by Soilwork members Björn Strid and David Andersson. The group also includes Sharlee D’Angelo (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, ex-King Diamond), Jonas Källsbäck (Mean Streak) and Sebastian Forslund (Kadwatha). During their career, the band has managed to release six albums between 2012–2021. We are talking about some world-class Progressive Rock/AOR that broadens the musical this year’s festival perfectly from a musical spectrum!

The symphonic metal-band Eleine last visited Umeå in 2017 and then as support to none other than the legendary W.A.S.P. The band will go on a European tour with Finnish Sonata Arctica in 2022, but before that it is time for the band to enter the Idun stage again during this year’s House of Metal. Highly recommended for fans of bands such as Within Temptation, Nightwish and others.