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  The much loved and award winning ARCTANGENT Festival returns this summer in August, and can today reveal another host of amazing acts for the event. Starting off with huge ATG fans favourite, the Leicester born, instrumental post rock band Maybeshewill, critically acclaimed Scottish and American mathcore band Frontierer, and recently reformed Welsh post hardcore band Mclusky (who are releasing their new album 'The World Is Still Here and So Are We' in May through Mike Patton's Ipecac label). Joining them in this announcement and in August are Irish post-rock (with a side order of electronics) from County Wicklow, God Is An Astronaut (as an exclusive UK show), hugely exciting (and recent Kerrang! cover stars) Atlanta Georgia sextet The Callous Daoboys (as a UK exclusive festival show), and a few HUGE silent disco sets from Nordic Giants, AK/DK, Yard and JOHN CXNNOR (performing an exclusive Doom Rave DJ-set). On top of the bands, the brand new ARCTANGENT Festival App has no...

  Following on from last years incredible and sold out (and probably best so far) 10th Anniversary event, the much loved and mighty award winning ARCTANGENT Festival returns this summer, and can today reveal another host of amazing acts for the event. To kick things off we have TWO more headliners for the festival. Firstly playing their first ever ATG are Norwegian band Wardruna, who will be bringing their Norse musical interpretations and traditions to the festival as our Wednesday night headliners. With this incredible band now in place, the Wednesday for this years Arctangent Festival will be its biggest ever, with more stages open to accomodate, but still no clashes! Then we have the brilliant UK prog rock band Tesseract, who will be returning to ATG and headlining the main stage on the Saturday this year, closing out an intense two year touring period of their album 'War Of Being'. Joining them include a group that were supposed to play in 2024 but ended up having to pull ...

  Following on from this years incredible, sun baked, sold out (and probably best so far) 10th Anniversary event, the much loved and mighty award winning ARCTANGENT Festival can today announce the first set of bands (including a main stage headliner) for next year. Taking place on the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th of August 2025, tickets for the event are on sale now, and available from - HERE The first 2025 main stage headliner comes in the shape of the phenomenal Australian progressive metal band Karnivool, who will be making their ARCTANGENT Festival debut in 2025, as well as perform there as a 2025 UK exclusive show. A stunning band whose last studio album 'Asymmetry' was released back in 2013, and is considered and revered (quite rightly) as a modern masterpiece. With new music confirmed and on the way as well, this headline set is an absolute nailed on, not to be missed spectacle. Also announced today are Washington legends Melvins (UK festival exclusive), one of the finest e...

  In its 10th year this summer, the brilliant and award winning ArcTanGent Festival has once again well and truly delivered for its loyal, amazing audience. Following on from last months HUGE band announcement, today the summer event can reveal its final collection of acts playing in 2024. Heading up this announcement are one of the worlds greatest heavy bands to ever do it, the stunning Savannah Georgia 4 piece Baroness, who will be playing ARCTANGENT for the very first time. An unmissable set, and surely now one of the most anticipated of the whole weekend. Joining them include stunning Bristol outfit Scaler (formerly Scalping), the mysterious and exciting New York band Imperial Triumphant, the musical collective A-Sun Amissa which is led by musician Richard Knox, and the psychedelic goth duo Gloom Index. ALL bands announced today for ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL are: Baroness / Scaler / Imperial Triumphant / Blood Command / URNE / MSPAINT / Silver Moth / Orchards / Teeth of the Sea / ito...

  To help celebrate the 10th year (THE TENTH YEAR!) of the mighty ArcTanGent Festival in 2024, todays band announcement is very likely it's biggest ever band announcement in its history. Yes, it is a biggie, and yes it will make you all very happy. Announced for this years event are the world renowned, globally acclaimed Scottish post rock band Mogwai, who play the festival for the very first time. An incredibly special band with one of the richest, most varied, interesting and loved back catalogues of music, ArcTanGent Festival is thrilled to have them grace our stages this summer. They are a band that the team at ATG has been trying to book since it began, back in 2013. Joining them include the atmospheric and powerful Texan quartet, Explosions In The Sky, the mysterious and anonymous duo Clown Core who play music ranging from grindcore to jazz, and the much loved, insanely talented Norwegian multi instrumentalist Ihsahn. Not stopping there, the festival can also announce another...

  ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL can announce its first 2024 main stage headliner in the shape of the brilliant Meshuggah, who will headline on the Friday night. Also announced today, and joining them on the main stage on Friday night (playing just before them) are the incredible Animals As Leaders. These shows are UK (Meshuggah) and EU (AAL) exclusive to ATG for 2024. Taking place near Bristol between the 14th August and the 17th August, the festival will be celebrating its TENTH year in 2024, and has once again been shortlisted for Best Medium Festival at the Festival Awards (it won best small festival in 2018), and continues to bring together some of the most interesting, diverse, exciting and eclectic bills for any festival, anywhere in the world. From festival booker and organiser James Scarlett - "To celebrate our 10th Birthday we wanted to invite back some of our all-time favourite bands from over the years. We drew up a list of all the bands that have ever played ATG that we’d like ...

  In 2024, the mighty ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL will be celebrating its TENTH year, and today can reveal its first wave of bands for the event next summer, August 2024. Taking place near Bristol between the 14th August and the 17th August, ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL has once again been shortlisted for Best Medium Festival at the Festival Awards (it won best small festival in 2018), and continues to bring together some of the most interesting, diverse, exciting and eclectic bills for any festival, anywhere in the world. To kick things off we have Wednesdays headliner, the magnificent Belfast 4 piece And So I Watch You From Afar, who will be playing a very special, fan voted for set. The band (who incidentally also played the very first ever ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL), are a festival fan favourite, and one of the most requested repeat booking the festival has ever had. More details on how this will work to be announced soon but only 4-Day Ticket holders will be able to vote, so if you want to have you...

  The mighty ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL 2023 today announces their final main stage headliner for this years event, The incredible, truly one of a kind Devin Townsend will be closing out the whole festival on the main stage, Saturday night. The festival will be taking place between August 16th through to August 19th, at Fernhill Farm, a short drive from Bristol City Centre. From Devin Townsend - "Hey all, Dev here. Honoured to be headlining the final night of Arctangent festival in the UK this August. It’s a cool festival that seems to really be committed to musical diversity. That’s something I can definitely get behind and I look forward to seeing you there :)" From ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL organiser James Scarlett - "We’ve been trying to book Devin Townsend for years, so to finally get him to Bristol to close out what is now officially the biggest ArcTanGent Festival we’ve ever had is a dream come true. Word to the wise, at this rate ATG will sell out this year so if you want to ...

  Brighton-based Electronic Post-Hardcore duo fakeyourdeath have today dropped their sophomore single ‘consume’. Exploring a more visually darker side to the band, this defying track is meant to be uncomfortable both musically and lyrically. It’s set to challenge the listener’s opinion of themselves and the society around them. "consume explores the idea of materialistic greed and how, as a society, we are fed this idea that without things we cannot be happy. but ultimately that’s a lie. it’s a narrative spun by the powers that be and consume was written to see the truth and challenge that way of thinking. consume depicts our disgust at a materialistic culture we all hate and yet want to be a part of.” - Vocalist, Candi Underwood Watch the official music video for ‘consume’ ‘consume’ follows the duo's debut single ‘truth’ which proved that fakeyourdeath are a band for the future by picking up ‘Featured Artist Of The Week’ on Kerrang! Radio’s Fresh Blood, with Alex Baker ment...

  The brilliant ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL 2023 can today announce their next round of bands for this years event, following on from last years ATG Advent Calendar announcement week that happened in December 2022. The festival will be taking place between August 16th through to August 19th, at Fernhill Farm, a short drive from Bristol City Centre. The acts announced today include the magnificent US NYC experimental rock band Swans, the newest 'super group' in town Empire State Bastard which features Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro and Mike Vennart ex of Oceansize, as well as Norwegian extreme metal legends Enslaved. Also announced include PETBRICK, A Burial At Sea, A-Tota-So, Copse and many more. These brilliant acts join the already announced headliners Heilung, as well as other acts including Converge, Deafheaven (playing 'Sunbather' in full as a UK exclusive), Igorrr, Jaga Jazzist, Pigs7, And So I Watch You From Afar, Loathe, Cave In, Russian Circles and more. From festival org...

  So here we go, the first full band announcement from team ARCTANGENT Festival 2023 is here, and it is a thing of wonder. With over 50 bands announced, the ball is well and truly rolling on next years event. To kick things off ATG has the UK festival exclusive of the mighty Deafheaven performing 'Sunbather' in full, the bands seminal, black metal modern classic from 2013. Joining them include black metal, baroque, experimental French band Igorrr (musician Gautier Serre), Norwegian experimental jazz post rock and fusion band Jaga Jazzist, Newcastle rock band Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Northern Irish instrumental rock band par excellence And So I Watch You From Afar and one of the most exciting, ambitious and heavy bands in the UK right now, the formidable Loathe. Also announced today include Massachusetts legends Cave In, Chicago instrumental band Russian Circles, stoner doomy rockers Elder, Belgian 3 piece Brutus and post hardcore Washington band The Fall Of Troy. Fes...

  With the beautiful sunshine weekend that was ARCTANGENT Festival 2022 still very much lodged in the recent memory banks (and lauded by The Guardian in their 5/ review HERE ), the first bands for the 2023 event can now be announced, all for the Wednesday. The 4 day event will be taking place next year between the 16th and 20th August, with the Wednesday 16th being a limited entry for 4 day ticket holders only - and these always sell out VERY much in advance. All of these bands are returning to ATG following on from their stellar 2022 sets, and are a mixture of the very new to the more established fan favourites. The one main thing they have in common is they are all utterly exceptional. ATG festival booker and promoter James Scarlett explains - “I’m absolutely ecstatic with the Wednesday line up at ATG 2023, it is literally a Greatest Hits of everything that happened in 2022. I will 100% see you at the front at 2pm on Wednesday August 16th. It is all killer no filler so don’t be l...

  Arctangent Festival 2022 is edging closer with Opeth, Cult Of Luna and TesseracT headlining the festival, its first time back since 2019. Whilst a few bands have had to pull out, they are very happy to add in Scalping / Famyne / Outlander / Sergeant Thunderhoof / Cryptic Shift / Ogives Big Band to the weekend. Arctangent Festival has announced its clash finders, new site map and for the first time that there will be an added party night on Wednesday 17th with Silent Disco taking place at the Elephant in the Bar Room stage once the bands finish. The Details: Site opens Wednesday 17th at 12pm and first band on at 2pm. Silent Disco night until 1.30am Site opens Thursday 18th 9am First band 11am Silent Disco Bixler Stage until 3am Site opens Friday 19th 9am First band 11am Silent Disco Bixler Stage until 3am Site opens Saturday 20th 9am First band 11am Silent Disco Bixler Stage until 3am For site map and clashfinders go HERE ATG is CASHLESS - HERE FAQ info here LOCATION ArcTanGent Fe...