Høstsabbat once again returns to the Church of Riffs the 23rd and 24th of October!
The Oslo boutique festival which mixes the best of every crushing genre.
This year we've changed our smallest venue to Kafé Hærverk, located 2 minutes from the church. The Church of Riffs and the Crypt is of course back this year.
Kicking of with the first band announcement, with this killer mix:
DOMKRAFT
DEATHCHANT
CULT OF OCCULT
OLD HORN TOOTH
EARTHBONG
HENCHLOCK
VOIDSPIRE
THE APE
GLOOMBOUND
Tickets: in bio
Sabbathians!
The aftermovie is here and it is glorious🤘
The talented Casper Johansson (@heltokmedia )has filmed it all, capturing not just the bands, but also all of you.
Tag your friends or your favorite act in the comments!
Blind early birds for next year is already sold out, so keep your eyes open for the next tier of tickets and news!
Until the next reaping 🔥⛪
Why do we have to be so serious, asks Rutger Verbist from the doom metal band Gnome.
We sat down and talked at Høstsabbat, while I drew his quick portrait. Very fun band!
#doommetal #darkart
Some insight from @mikesscheidt of @quantumyob about dark music and using shit as fertiliser taken from our portrait talk at @hostsabbat 2025.
I had the most wonderful conversation with Mike, and you can see the full talk and portrait over on my YouTube.
#doommetal #stonermetal #metal #music #darkart
One week since the sabbath concluded for this year!
We're lucky enough to have many talented photographers at Høstsabbat to capture it all.
Here's a black and white special!
Major thanks in this collage to:
@madaoslo@fotoolaussen
Music creates connections, even for cats.
After the wonderful conversation I had with Mike Scheidt from Yob, I remembered that my family cat, a traumatized rescue kitten, liked to fall asleep by the speakers when I blasted the loudest metal. Likely because she was found starving and pregnant at a traveling funfair, where she hid under the machinery.
Noise for her meant relief. Safety.
I'm an angry person. I have violence inside. I snap. Sometimes in ways I'm not proud of.
Talking with Mike about finding calmness in fire, about how its a process, about music and art, and finally creating our own little calm space in the noisy backstage, will be a treasured memory for me. And I hope I can fix the audio enough to share the session with all of you in a proper form. 30 minutes video will be out as soon as possible no matter what.
Drawing Yob live before and after talking with Mike was strangely different. 11 years ago Yob was a band that helped me understand the calm in the violence of drawing concerts. And this time at Høstsabbat I ended up refinding violence in the calm.
What does that mean? I don't know.
Let's talk about it again in 11 years.
#darkart #Høstsabbat #Yob #doommetal #concertart
@klosterbandnorway / @hostsabbat 🪐🔮
Their first ever gog sent down in @verkstedetbar with their psychedelic doom outfit that paints the most haunting, shrill, and esoteric soundscape.
#kløster #høstsabbat #oslo #doom
“In every note, a prayer. In every silence, a storm. YOB reminds that heaviness isn’t just sound — it’s spirit, it’s breath, it’s the weight of being alive.” Last weekend at Høstsabbat, their two headlining performances felt like sacred rituals — waves of sound dissolving time, leaving everyone suspended between grief and grace.
📸 Portrait before going on stage & Live Pictures of @quantumyob at @hostsabbat by @jaquelinevanek / @obnubil
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@quantumyob are: @mikesscheidt@bleach_lightning@evadfrench
Management: @obliquemgt
Label: @relapserecords
#obnubil #obnubilstudio #obnubilmagazine #jaquelinevanek #yob #yobquantum #høstsabbat
A shout-out to my improvised assistant/security guard @lars_christian_k for helping me photograph the band without interruptions behind the curtain!
