Calcified Presents LLC is proud to announce that tickets are on sale now for Calcified Music Festival 2025, Wheeling, West Virginia’s only hardcore music festival. Calcified will take place on September 6, 2025 at the Capitol Theatre Ballroom at 1015 Main St, Wheeling. Doors open at 12pm and music will kick off at 1pm and wrap up around 9pm. Eleven bands from the Ohio Valley, Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh, North Carolina, Rochester, and throughout West Virginia will be joining us for the day, providing hours of live, heavy music. Tickets can be purchased here: https://
Our lineup features two returning acts from Calcified’s sold out first year (2024), Bolt Action, and last years headliners fallfiftyfeet. Branching out into sludge, doom, and heavy psych territory, this years lineup will include Brainwash Victim, Fuzzfiend, and Pillärs as well as a touch of black metal with Woodsguard. Ghost Home, …by the deed, Samarra, and Nervous Aggression will round out the hardcore genre and its subgenres, and rotting in dirt from North Carolina will wrap things up as our headliners this year.
Food and drinks will be available at the bar in the Ballroom, as well as at the restaurants surrounding the venue. For more info and to keep up to date with announcements please follow our Instagram and Facebook pages:
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Hardcore music is a subgenre of punk rock known for fast tempos, community spirit, and energetic performances. It originated in the late 1970s and early 1980s, primarily in the United States in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. Legendary bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, and Bad Brains were some of the first hardcore bands. Over the years, it has evolved into various subgenres like post-hardcore and metalcore. Calcified Music Festival would cater to fans of hardcore and other styles of heavy music as well as those who might simply be curious about the genre.
