HERRIE
It’s our mission to bring the noise to the city of Alkmaar, getting brutal, slamming, thrashing and just fun bands on a stage and have a damn good time.
Check out our upcoming gigs and support the scene by dropping by in the events or getting some nasty Herrie merch!
SLAMAGEDDON
A slamming Sunday!
The full bill is complete for this brutal day out at the end of August! And it is a stacked one we are very proud of, 11 bands from 7 countries destroying the stage at HAL 25 in Alkmaar! On the bill for this first edition are none other then VISCERAL DISGORGE (usa) PARTY CANNON (sct) VISCRAL (ind) 9DEAD (usa) GOLEM OF GORE (it) BFI (de) HUMAN VIVISECTION (be) BACKHOE LOADER (nl) EMBODIMENT OF SADISM (nl) and the BLOEPBLOEPBUNKER. Next to the brutal bands there will be more stuff to do, eat and drink. More on that later!
Tickets are going fast, don’t mis out! Get them here!
A grinding tuesday!
ESCUELA GRIND +1
A Tuesday night out with Escuela Grind! The new-England grindcore band has proved themselves on the Herrie festivals so they are back with a headliner on the 19th of august in Alkmaar! Need more noise? Support will be done by the 2 man grindband Blind to the Bars. Prepare yourself for some proper blasts, riffs and angry vocals!
There are a very limited amount of tickets for this show, don’t mis out! Get them here!
LAST MINUTE GIG!
SKELETAL REMAINS!
One hell of a last minute gig! On Thursday the 12th of June it is time for none other than SKELETAL REMAINS! This powerhouse from the US will make sure you will bang your head with a filthy look on your face! Expect some damn fine death metal on this night out!
To get things started in Alkmaar, support comes from the dutch band SLOOM! We got 2 types of tickets, regular speaks for itself, the extra bit of support ticket will go to the band and to make sure we can do more events! Get your tickets here!
HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE Day 2!
Hemelvaartse Herrie get’s a extra day!
Yes! The 30th of May will be added to the festival! It will have some proper bangers of bands that will blow you away!
First announcement! We welcome the Scottish combination of speed and blackmetal; HELLRIPPER! Metal that aims to invoke the quintessential “black ‘n’ roll” sound, mixing influences from classic 80’s black metal records with a more modern edge. Heavily inspired by witchcraft and the supernatural, it is fast, loud and uncompromising. All hail the goat! Get your tickets for the 30th of May here!
08-03-2025 – HERRIE IN JC KOMPLEKS
HERRIE IN JC KOMPLEKS UPDATE!
Time for a fresh update for the 8th of March! Sadly, Bonecarver dropped out of the tour so they won’t be playing on this night. The good news is that the other bands of the tour will still be playing the gig! On this night full of blasts, grooves, breakdowns and inhuman noises we got: SO THIS IS SUFFERING (USA) + DEATH MASK (Mexico) + CASTIEL (Austria) And that’s not all, we welcome to the bill the local death metal band DAMNATION!
12-04-2025 – PRO-PAIN
PRO-PAIN x HERRIE!
On Saturday the 12th of april we welcome the legendary, groovy, hardcore metal from New-York; PRO-PAIN! Going strong for from the start they will guarantee a heavy show where standing still is going to be the challenge. They won’t be alone, we welcome to the bill of the night the groovy death cocktail that is BLOID, the gut punching crossover metal band SWANSLAUGHTER and the hard-hitting hardcore CURSELIFTER!
29-05-2025 – SEVERE TORTURE!
SEVERE TORTURE AND ABRUPT DEMISE!
Brutal in your face death metal, all from the depths of Holland! We welcome to the bill none other than SEVERE TORTURE! One hell of a brutal band that has seen every corner of the world and destroyed way to many stages. On Hemelvaart they will unleash hell in Alkmaar! And they are not the only Dutchies wreaking havoc, ABRUPT DEMISE will join the Hemelvaartse Herrie bill!
29-05-2025 – STABBING!
STABBING AND VERMICULAR INCUBATION!
Ohyeah! Time to get brutal! We welcome to the bill of Hemelvaartse Herrie; STABBING! Expect some damn proper brutal death metal all the way from Texas! Also, new on the bill with a fresh new line-up; VERMICULAR INCUBATION! Brutal slam-fi mix of deathmetal/slam/nasty stuff from France!
25-03-2025 – HEXIS (dk)
HEXIS RETURNS TO ALKMAAR!
The boys are back in town! After destroying the stage here in 2023 the gut punching, heavy hitting mix of blackmetal, doom and hardcore band HEXIS returns to Alkmaar! They won’t be alone, support for this gig will come from the soul-searching post doom band: GAVRAN from Rotterdam!
HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE 2025
– 27-12-2024 – NEW HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE NAMES!
New names! Did you survive your Christmas breakdown? Time for a new one! We welcome 3 heavy hitting breakdowns combined with the finest gutturals, slams and bass drops! First off a warm welcome back; KANINE with the finest French deathcore! The new and upcoming dutch deathcore band DEEPROOT And the mix of hardcore, powerviolence and metal from Germany: WOAT!
HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE 2025
– 21-12-2024 – FIRST HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE NAMES!
Ohyeah! Time for some brutal, old school and groovy death metal! We present, the NewYork deathmetal legends; IMMORTAL SUFFERING. The USA/Czech combination of proper brutal deathmetal band; EMASCULATOR. And from Scotland, we welcome the deathmetallers SCORDATURA! More bands are on their way! Limited early birds are on sale now!
HERRIE FEST 2024
– 25-09-2024 – COMPLETE LINE-UP + UPDATES!
Good news, bad news and good news! Good news: It was a lot of logistical puzzling, but despite missing the Scrapyard stage at HERRIE FEST, we managed to add a 3rd stage to the festival. In total; 22 bands, 3 stages, merch market, food, drinks, chillings and random Herrie shit!
Bad news: Unfortunately, Hideous Divinity had to cancel their show at the festival, but they will definitely return to Alkmaar in the future!
Good news! 5 new names for November 30th! A gigantic mountain of slamming brutal death metal from Portuguese Analepsy, modern death metal Crown The Beast from Denmark and also; BliepBloep, Arthrodesis and Steven Seagull!
THE LAST HERRIE IN THE SCRAPYARD
– 13-09-2024 – Sadpartytime –
All good things must come to a end, but this is gonna be one hell of a end. The very last Herrie In The Scrapyard will take place on the 24th of october. We will end our brutal party’s combined with brutal craft beer on a damn high note. Party hard in The Scrapyard with none other then Hurakan (fr), Ruins Of Perception (de) The Voynich Code (pt), Solar Eruption (fr) and Rising Rebellion (nl). Don’t miss out on this one! <3 Get those tickets here!
HERRIE SHORTS!
– 13-08-2024 – BRUTAL SHORTS! –
Oh yeah! Time for some damn comfortable Herrie shorts! The perfect easy peasy lemon squeezy black shors with a subtile “wat een herrie” logo on it!
Only a small batch available so get them while it’s hot!
11-08-2024 – TIMETABLE
– 05-08-2024 – SLAMOCALYPSE –
This Sunday! It’s time for some damn fine smashing slamming deathmetal!
13:00 – Doors open
14:00 – Deterrent
15:00 – Unhallowed Deliverance
16:00 – Cumbeast
17:10 – Hurakan
18:20 – Stillbirth
19:40 – Disentomb
21:00 – End of event
04-08-2024 – BLOOD RED THRONE!
– 22-07-2024 – HERRIE IN THE SCRAPYARD! –
A bit last minute but damn this gig is worth it! On sunday the 4th of august we welcome to the stage in the Scrapyard none other then Blood Red Throne from Norway!
Support will be done by the local Herrie band Bloid, doors open at 19:00 and tickets are limited so get yours early!
NEW MELTING MERCH!
– 18-07-2024 – Merch! –
Oooh yes, time for some fresh new face melting merch! A tribute to having a party in the Dutch weather, brutal, wet, face melting and this year, very nasty.
And just in case it does get any hotter we thought it would be a good idea to have a white shirt to hustle up your pile of black shirts. Pre order now at the HERRIE store! And skip shipping by picking it up at the upcoming Slamocalypse gig!
24-10-2024 // HERRIE IN THE SCRAPYARD
– 13-07-2024 – Scrapyard! –
Time to combine your craft beer with a mix of blackened melodic deathcore and thrashing groovy metal! The Scrapyard stage will be used by old friends and new!
On the 24th of October it’s time for some propper Herrie from the German band Ruins of Perception and our semi local heroes Arising Rebellion!
10-10-2024 // VICTORIE DEATHCAAAVE
– 10-07-2024 – Deathcave! –
We are going back again to the Victorie Alkmaar! Spreading some damn fine Herrie during the newest edition of Victorie Deathcave! On 10-10-2024 we will unleash a mix of brutal, slamming, grinding, blasting, riffing noise. The headliner of this special gig? None other then Monument of Misanthropy with a exclusive gig in the Netherlands! Support will come from Storm upon the Masses, Everything Decays and Smegma Likker!
30-11 // HERRIE FEST 2024
– 05-06-2024 – new bands! –
OH YEAH! Time for some brand new bands on the bill of Herrie Fest 2024! We welcome a mix of slam, core, gore, death and beats! Get the party started with none other then Korpse, Klakmatrak, Clitgore, The Broken Horizon, Braces and Gutslasher!
Need more Herrie? More gigs are on their way! Support the scene and get your tickets early!
11-08 // SLAMOCALYPSE
– 10-05-2024 – new show! –
This is going to be a heavy one! Our brutal surfing deathmetallers are coming back to Alkmaar and they will bring one hell of a batch of old and new friends with them! Fun in the sun combined with the finest slamming deathmetal!
30-11 // HERRIE FESTIVAL 2024
– 27-03-2024 – festival announcement –
A full day of stomping, brutal, mixed heavy genres and a shitton more! HERRIE FESTIVAL is back again in HAL 25! This will be one of the heaviest line-ups so far. The first batch of bands is allready a damn good reason to get some new earplugs. Don’t mis out on this banger of a day!
18-04 // Death Awaits
– 11-03-2024 – show announcement –
The Scrapyard in Alkmaar was in need of some slams and deathcore, so we delivered with some damn nasty breakdowns, gutturals and filthy riffs!
Get your metal going with our friends from France, DEATH AWAITS! With support from the fresh deathcore newcomers in the scene, CANYON LITERATURE!
For this event we are going to do a pay what you can system, which ticket you get is up to you!
09-05 // HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE
– 04-03-2024 – full poster! –
Full poster for Hemelvaartse Herrie is online! This nasty bill we be spreading itself online and offline! Going to be one hell of a hemelvaartsdag!
A festival day with bands, drinks, food, merch and weird random Herrie stuff!
Want to make sure you got tickets? get them at the ticket page!
29-02 // PIJN + PIXLE.
– 15-02-2024 – support! –
We got a band to support the wall of heaviness from Pijn on 29 in The Scrapyard Welcome to the bill: Pixle. From the depths of a basement in Heerhugowaard they will play some impressive prog rock.
A recommendation for fans of Porcupine Tree and Radio Head! Don’t miss out on this one!
09-05 // ROTTEN SOUND + ESCUELA GRIND!
– 13-02-2024 – new bands! –
We complete the line-up of Hemelvaartse Herrie with some damn fine grinding noise! Get your full range of blasts and grooves with none other than Rotten Sound and Escuela Grind! With them and of course our own BliepBliep and newcomer Detroit we complete the bill of our 09-05-2024 festival! Full poster online asap!
16-05 // Party Cannon
– 08-02-2024 – show announcement –
Our Scottish slamming friends are back in town! Party Cannon is back in Alkmaar to make sure you will get a IQ dropping night of brutal slamming deathmetal, beach balls, inflatables, pushups and inhuman noises!
With them on the bill, Cognitive from the USA! Brutal technical deathmetal to get the party going!
HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE
– 02-02-2024 – more new bands! –
Angry slams, brutal deathcore and a musical experience you won’t see everyday. We welcome to the bill of Hemelvaartse Herrie:
HEMELVAARTSE HERRIE
– 31-01-2024 – new bands! –
Time to bring some stomping, blasting, beatdown brutality to the bill on 09-05 in HAL 25 Alkmaar! Party hard with none other then:
NO FACE NO CASE // Nu-beatdown from Czech
CARRION // Brutal deathmetal from Belgium
MACABRE DEMISE // One man deathmetal brutality from Germany
28-03 // VICTORIE DEATHCAVE
– 29-01-2024 – show announcement –
We are back in Victorie Alkmaar! Proud to announce the line up of the new edition of Victorie Deathcave! On 28-03-2024 there will be a massive amount of blasts, riffs, breakdowns and inhuman guttural noises.
Party hard with Embrace Your Punishment (fr), Diaroe (de), Subvergence (be) and our own local heroes Man As Plague!
29-02 // PIJN +1
– 22-01-2024 – show announcement –
A new show in The Scrapyard! All the way from Manchester, we bring you the band PIJN. A post-metal powerhouse that brings you a intense portion of heavy music with pounding grooves and uneasy timid moments.
Combine your intense Moersleutel beers with some intense metal! The support act of this event will be online as soon as possible.
01-02 // BLOID + FLAMKEEPER
– 08-01-2024 – show announcement –
Local deathmetallers BLOID and thrasy catchy metalcore band FLAMEKEEPER will hit the stage in The Scrapyard on 01-02!
The venue will be testing out a new lighting rig and what better way to test it then with some heavy noise!
