🤘 HEADBANGER’S BALL: A Weekend of Metal Mayhem, Elegance & Underground Glory 📅 Dates:

• Friday, July 25th, 2025
• Saturday, July 26th, 2025
• Sunday, July 27th, 2025 ⌚ Time: Doors at 2:00 PM | Show from 2:15 PM – 11:40 PM | Ball begins at 7pm and continues throughout the evening.📍 Venues:
• Friday, Saturday & Sunday: Another Round Bar and Grill – 7515 Brook Rd., Richmond, VA 23227 (Food & drinks available on-site) 🎟️ Tickets are limited – Don’t miss this three-night descent into metal glory! 🎭 The Headbanger’s Ball – A Gala of Grit, Glam, and Metal Majesty Each night of the Headbanger’s Ball features a metal gala unlike anything the underground has seen. This is your invitation to show up in formal metal fashion or bring your own headbanger’s edge to the pit. 🔥 Let the Riffs Reign. Let the Hair Fly. Presented by Immortal Forest, Headbanger’s Ball is a sonic uprising celebrating the loud, the heavy, and the defiant. This is your invitation to unite under the banner of distortion, leather, and unleashed energy. Whether you're thrash, doom, death, black, industrial, or just metal as hell — this night is built for you. 🎸 Lineup – A Full Assault of Heavy Sounds Prepare for a relentless onslaught of guitars, guttural vocals, and drums that shake the soul. Featuring a lineup of bands that will tear the roof off and leave no neck un-snapped. 🔥 Headliners: Fight From Within – [Aggressive Metalcore], Saving Vice – [Independent Metalcore] RVNT– [Metalcore] With supporting sets by:
• Spiral Fracture –
• Wolf Legion –
• Wertlos –
• Twist It – ...and more to be announced.
• 🖤 Community, Commerce & Chaos
• Metal Market: Curated vendors offering patches, pins, darkwear, vinyl, and underground art 💀 More Than a Show — It’s a Ritual of Rebellion This isn’t a night out — it’s a declaration of identity, unity, and metal spirit. This is a place for outsiders, rejects, freaks, and the loud-hearted. Leave the mainstream behind. This is our temple of sound. 🦴 What to Expect:
• 28+ Heavy Music Acts from 2:00 PM – 11:40 AM
• Metal Ball\Gala Mayhem starting at 7:00 PM
• A crowd of metalheads, punks, alts, goths, and chaos-seekers
• Vendors, portrait stations, and unexpected moments
• A place where you’re not just welcome — you’re home 🔥 Event Notes
• All ticket sales final – support your local scene
• On-site parking available
• Zero tolerance for harassment or hate – All headbangers welcome
• Costumes encouraged – Horns, spikes, masks, battle attire – bring it ⚡ Embrace the Chaos. Honor the Underground This is Headbanger’s Ball. Loud. Raw. Real. 🎟️ Tickets are live — raise your horns and claim yours before they're gone.
• Metal Bar: Signature cocktails + non-alcoholic mocktails
• Grub & Fuel: Food available for purchase at the venue
• Exclusive Immortal Forest Merch 👑 Dress How You Bleed:
• Elegant black gowns, tailored suits, leather, velvet, and chainmail
• Corpsepaint, battle vests, spikes, fishnets, boots, and studs
• Fantasy meets fury, elegance meets edge 💃 Ball Vibes Include:
• Headbanging and metal dance vibes in the darkness
• Dancefloor madness + slower anthems to sway and slay
• Portrait station by Lacy Media Photography (additional ticket purchase)
• Mosh pit or moonlit waltz — choose your ritual 🏆 Best Dressed Contests – Nightly Honors & Eternal Glory 🔥 Friday, July 25th, Saturday, July 26th & Sunday, July 27th:Strut your stuff and own the floor. Each night, we’ll bestow all horns up on two Best Dressed Metalheads, who will win a pair of tickets to The Haunted History of Richmond hosted by Strange RVA. 🖤 Sunday, July 27th – The Coronation:The final night closes with the crowning of our Metal King & Queen — selected from the crowd for their presence, power, and style.
• 👑 Each will receive a $50 Immortal Forest gift card
• 📸 A professional portrait to mark the moment
• 🖼️ Their crowning photo will be placed on our Wall of Honor inside the Immortal Forest boutique ⚠️ Must be present to win — we want to see you reign! This elevates the Ball beyond the pit — it’s a space to express, perform, and embody your true metal self, whether formal, fierce, or freakishly fabulous.