BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.9//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17682@thecmf.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261226T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261226T183000 DTSTAMP:20261023T205709Z URL:https://thecmf.com/events/hoh2026/ SUMMARY:Holiday Of Horror 2026: MACABRE\, LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR\, ARMORED AS SAULT\, HATEMONGER\, BACKLASH\, GUTNOOSE\, HANZXGRUBER & HELLFROST DESCRIPTION:The Chicago Metal Factory presents the Holiday Of Horror 2026 e dition\nfeaturing two rooms of heavy bands! at Reggies Rock Club &\; Mu sic Joint\n\nSaturday\, December 26th @ Reggies\n6:30pm door 7pm show\n\n1 7+ in Rock Club with MACABRE\, Lair Of The Minotaur\, Hatemonger &\; Ba cklash\n\n 21+ in Music Joint with Armored Assault\, Gutnoose &\; HANZ xGRUBER\n\nAND – FREE MIDNIGHT AFTER PARTY in the Joint (21+)\nback by p opular demand\nHELLFROST (CELTIC FROST / HELLHAMMER tribute)\nspecial Morb id Tales set – Are You Morbid?\n\nTICKETS:\nhttps://www.ticketweb.com/ev ent/holiday-of-horror-2026-edition-reggies-rock-club-tickets/14993403\n\nA dmission ($20adv UNTIL 12/1/26 THEN $25 /$25dos)\nsave money – no transa ctions fees if you buy tickets at the Reggies box office on the second flo or\n\n\n\n \;\n\nMACABRE started the Holiday Of Horror 12/26/98 @ Fire side Bowl\nwith Reggies being its home since 2007\n\nMACABRE at the Firesi de Bowl in Chicago on December 26\, 1998\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=1MGlLmURGYc&t=1546s[/embed]\n\nMACABRE\n\nFormed in 1985\, The tr io is a vanguard of the style they’ve come to describe as “murder meta l\,” a ferocious mix of death metal\, punk rock\, grind\, jazz fusion\, thrash and folk melodies among other sounds with lyrics examining real-lif e stories of serial killers\, mass murderers and more.\n\nCORPORATE DEATH - LEAD VOCALS AND GUITAR\n\nDENNIS THE MENACE - DRUMS\n\nNEFARIOUS - BASS AND VOCALS\n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/2lbJzDX11fy6cLeFtlkUA8?si=IA Ep8oTuTmCdSyO6nsYxrA\n\nhttps://www.murdermetal.com\n\nhttps://murdermetal .bandcamp.com\n\nhttps://www.linktr.ee/MurderMetal\n\nhttps://www.youtube. com/c/MURDERMETAL1985/featured\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/OFFICIALMACABRE \n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/macabremetal\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=IcyVqbVy1fE&t=2s[/embed]\n\nlisten to Holiday Of Horror:\nhttps ://murdermetal.bandcamp.com/track/holiday-of-horror\n\n \;\n\nLAIR OF THE MINOTAUR\n\nFormed in 2003 and signed to Southern Lord Records just on e month after their first show. The Midwestern death-doom metal warriors L AIR OF THE MINOTAUR have released 5 full-length albums\, and 3 EP’s\; in terconnected concept records based on the bloodier tales of mythology.\n\n The band has toured extensively across North America and Europe\, crushing all in their path with their own brand of heavy fucking metal that has be en likened to being beat to death with a spiked club.\n\nIn the words of M aximum Metal\, “If there is a [band] heavier than this\, then I have sim ply never heard it.”\n\nSteven Rathbone - Guitar\, Vocals\, Synth\n\nChr is Wozniak - Drums\n\nSanford Parker - Bass\n\n \;\n\nBandcamp\n\nhttp s://lairoftheminotaur.bandcamp.com/\n\nInstagram\n\nhttps://www.instagram. com/lair.of.the.minotaur?stkn=MWljY2l6cW1taTM0Mg==\n\nlisten:\nLet's Kill These Motherfuckers | Lair of the Minotaur\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=Kf95e9HQVH8&list=RDKf95e9HQVH8&start_radio=1[/embed]\n\nHATEMON GER\nFirst show in over five years!\n\nChicago’s Blackened Death Grind O nslaught of animosity and misanthropic disgust.  Hatemonger features mem bers from Trouble\, Bear Mace\, Yakuza\, ex-Immortal Bird\, Abigail Willia ms\, a collective of Chicago metal lifers.\n\n \;\n\nJerome Marshall- Vocals/Guitars\n\nJohn Porada- Bass/Vocals\n\nNate Madden- Guitars\n\nGarr y Naples- Drums\n\nThe Vile Maxim\, by Hatemonger\n\nhatemonger.bandcamp.c om\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4gPfBeAfw&list=RDTu4gPfBeAf w&start_radio=1[/embed]\n\n \;\n\nBACKLASH\n\nBacklash is a thrash / h eavy metal band from Joliet\, formed in 2014. They channel classic thrash and heavy metal while staying current with the modern underground.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\nLineup:\n\nRyan Sorensen — guitar and lead vocals\n\nVaughan Reed — lead guitar and vocals\n\nTyler Smith — bass\n\nShawn Johnson — d rums\n\n \;\n\nCatalog: debut LP Colossus (2021)\; single False Flag ( 2022). Second full-length For the Throne coming soon.\n\nlisten:\n\nFalse Flag — https://backlashus.bandcamp.com/track/false-flag\n\n \;\n\n[e mbed]https://youtu.be/ZS9v5mlpxuQ[/embed]\n\n \;\n\nLinks:\n\nSite: ht tps://www.backlashlive.com\n\nLink hub: https://ffm.bio/backlash\n\nInstag ram: https://www.instagram.com/backlash_legion/\n\nFacebook: https://www.f acebook.com/Backlash15/\n\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BacklashYT\n\ nBandcamp: https://backlashus.bandcamp.com Stream hub: https://ffm.to/stre ambacklash.bio False Flag smartlink: https://ffm.to/falseflag\n\n\nin the Joint 21+\n\n \;\n\nARMORED ASSAULT\n\nArmored Assault (RECORD RELEASE SHOW) is celebrating 23 years of thrashing this December\, with a new alb um titled "Armageddon". The Chicago-based quintet consists of Andy Pindels ki (vocals)\, Billy McDonald (bass)\, Tony Notardonato (guitar)\, Mark Sut tner (drums)\, and Tommy Bellino (guitar).\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/Arm oredAssaultMusic/\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/armored_assault/\n\nhttps:/ /armoredassault.bandcamp.com/album/blood-queen\n\n \;\n\n[embed]https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIui_D0CGWg[/embed]\n\n \;\n\nGUTNOOSE\n\nSl amming brutal death metal band based out of the Chicago suburbs.\n\nLineup :\n\nVocals - Ashton McGillivray\n\nGuitar - Irvin Gonzalez\n\nGuitar/bass - Andreas Rivas\n\nDrums - Dennis Blanke\n\nFacebook: https://www.faceboo k.com/share/1DVtf4WK3g/?mibextid=wwXIfr\n\nInstagram: https://www.instagra m.com/gutnoose_official?stkn=YnNkNHc1bms3b3Jq&\;utm_source=qr\n\nTikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@gutnoose_offical?_r=1&\;_t=ZP-9AKJyvn4ZLi\n\ nBandcamp: https://gutnoose.bandcamp.com/album/gutnoose\n\nlisten: https:/ /gutnoose.bandcamp.com/track/home-invasion\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=lkoGVUlN4n0[/embed]\n\n\nHANZxGRUBER \n\nEric - Vocals\n\nKurt - Guitar\n\nChris - Drums\n\nChicago mincecore Agathocles worship destroyi ng melody since 2019 with a touch of Bombastic Dbeats\n\nFacebook:\nhttps: //www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085471200420\n\nBandcamp page: Music | HANZxGRUBER\n\nlisten: https://hanzxgruber.bandcamp.com/track/ballad-of- the-mincer\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W4D4uFLjhM&list=RD6W 4D4uFLjhM&index=1[/embed]\n\n \;\n\nafter party:\n\n+ FREE after party in the Joint\n\nHELLFROST - Chicago's Hellhammer / Celtic Frost tribute\n special Morbid Tales set – Are You Morbid?\n\nfeaturing\nMike Legros\nMa rkus Kolar\nMark Piotrowski\nFrank Rizzo\n\nFacebook: https://www.facebook .com/profile.php?id=61557002532292\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=OwuysaVakqU[/embed]\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thecmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HO H2026_1080X1350.png CATEGORIES:17+,21+ LOCATION:Reggies Rock Club\, 2109 S State St\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60616\, United States GEO:41.853951;-87.62679 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2109 S State St\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60616\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Reggies Rock Club:geo:41.853951,-87.62679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR