Rusty Nails Festival 2025: PURTENANCE Unleashes Finnish Death Metal Upon the East

Purtenance

Rusty Nails Festival unleashes its most devastating lineup yet as Finnish death metal titans PURTENANCE make their historic first appearance in China, joined by America's elite extreme metal forces ABYSMAL LORD and CAVEMAN CULT.

Rusty Nails Festival Vol.2

The Gathering of Northern Death: Rusty Nails Festival MMXXV

For the first time in Chinese extreme metal history, PURTENANCE brings their legendary old-school Finnish death metal to Asian shores. This exclusive two-date festival appearance marks a milestone for underground metal in China, featuring one of the most significant bands from the golden era of Nordic death metal.

Festival Details: Two Nights of Extreme Metal Devastation

TIANJIN RITUAL - March 25, 2025 - A Night of Total Death Metal Devastation

• Venue: Twenty Years Livehouse

• Doors: 18:30

• Full Lineup:

  • PURTENANCE (Finnish Death Metal Legends)

  • ABYSMAL LORD (US Black/Death Metal)

  • CAVEMAN CULT (Florida Black/Death Metal)

  • SKELETAL AUGURY (Chinese Thrash/Black Metal)

Rusty Nails Vol.2 - Tianjin

SHANGHAI CEREMONY - March 26, 2025 - Finnish Death Metal Dominion

• Venue: MAO Livehouse

• Doors: 19:00

• Full Lineup:

  • PURTENANCE (Finnish Death Metal Legends)

  • ABYSMAL LORD (US Black/Death Metal)

  • CAVEMAN CULT (Florida Black/Death Metal)

  • R.N.V. (Chinese Black/Death Metal)

Rusty Nails Vol.2 - Shanghai

Path to VIP Darkness:

• Festival admission

• Two high-quality event posters

• Two limited-edition numbered foiled cards featuring international bands (exclusive collector's items)

• Private photo session with Purtenance

• Meet & greet signing session with the band

Legion of the Damned

PURTENANCE: Masters of Finnish Death Metal Darkness

Purtenance

Formed in 1989, PURTENANCE stands among the founding fathers of Finnish death metal. Their groundbreaking album "Member of Immortal Damnation" (1992) remains a cornerstone of the genre, mentioned in the same breath as classics from Demigod, Demilich, and Convulse.

Special China Tour Set: 80+ minutes featuring their entire debut album and rare early material.

Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation

Discography

ABYSMAL LORD: American Black/Death Metal Warfare

Abysmal Lord

Since 2011, ABYSMAL LORD has risen through the ranks of extreme metal to become one of America's most ferocious new-generation acts. Their Asian debut promises an unrelenting assault of blackened death metal warfare.

CAVEMAN CULT: Bestial War Metal Command

Caveman Cult

Direct from the swamps of Florida, CAVEMAN CULT brings their unique fusion of war metal and industrial chaos to Asia. Nuclear War Now! Productions' latest conquering force delivers pure sonic violence.

China's Elite Underground

SKELETAL AUGURY (Tianjin Exclusive)

Skeletal Augury

Beijing's blackened death metal commanders, crowned by their 2014 masterpiece "Bless of Destroyed, Raped, Dismembered Flesh." Veterans of international metal warfare alongside Impiety and Havok.

R.N.V. (Shanghai Exclusive)

R.N.V.

Eastern China's black metal trinity emerges from five years of darkness with new material from their upcoming release.

Weapons of Metal - Exclusive Merch

Festival T-shirt - Rusty Nails Vol.2 Design

Exclusive China tour shirt - Design 1

Exclusive China tour shirt - Design 2

• Limited edition Rusty Nails Vol.2 festival shirts

• Exclusive Purtenance China Tour merchandise

• Official band merchandise from all performing acts

Limited edition festival shirts featuring custom artwork will be available for purchase at both shows. All merchandise, including exclusive tour shirts and additional items, will be available for purchase through Zhen's Wardrobe (www.zhenswardrobe.com) after the shows. Follow our website or social media channels for stock updates and release information.