Following on from last year’s 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 year’s 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 Saturday this year, closing out an intense two year touring period of their album War Of Being. In addition to a host of new bands added to the fest, special sets Include – Between The Buried In Me (Playing 2 Sets), Fall Of Troy (Playing Doppelganger In Full), and We Lost The Sea (Playing 2 Sets)!
Tickets On Sale – Here
Joining them include a group that were supposed to play in 2024 but ended up having to pull out, the mysterious and insanely exciting Clown Core (playing their first ever ATG). Also announced today are Norwegian prog metal band Leprous, stunning danish alternative band Mew (as a UK festival exclusive and one of their last ever performances), French rock 3 piece (par excellencé) Slift, and one of the finest indie rock bands in the world, Arab Strap (playing their first ever ATG, and whose most recent album is a 10/10).
Other artists announced include UK stoner rock band Green Lung (as a UK festival exclusive/playing their first ever ATG), Chicago post-metal (and genuinely world beating) band Pelican, Japanese band Envy (a UK exclusive), and the stunning American singer songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle.
Already announced for this summers main stage are the phenomenal Australian progressive metal band Karnivool, as well as the likes of Melvins (UK festival exclusive), Rolo Tomassi, DVNE and another ATG debut/festival exclusive Kylesa. There will also be some very special Arctangent Festival exclusive sets from Between the Buried And Me (who will be performing 2 sets including a Colors in full set), The Fall Of Troy (who will be playing ‘Doppelganger’ in full), and We Lost the Sea (playing 2 sets ‘Departure Song’ in full and a hits set).
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From Arctangent Festival organiser and booked, James Scarlett – “To have Wardruna, a Main Stage headliner, closing off the Wednesday night of Arctangent 2025 truly cements this as our biggest year yet. If you can make it to ATG a day early, a 4-Day ticket is now a no brainer. Not to mention TesseracT headlining Saturday night alongside the new additions of Clown Core, Mew, Arab Strap, Envy, Green Lung and tonnes more across the whole weekend. You’re not going to want to miss a second of this weekend – FOMO is an understatement.”
From James Monteith of Tesseract – “We’re beyond excited to headline the Saturday at Arctangent 2025! The lineup once again boasts some of the most innovative and forward-thinking alternative bands around, and we’re truly honoured to close out the festival. This show will also mark the conclusion of our two-year tour in support of War of Being, so we’re planning a very special performance to celebrate this milestone.”
From Leprous vocalist and keyboardist, Einar Solberg – “Always such a pleasure playing at Arctangent! Definitely one of the coolest festivals in the UK. Can’t wait to be back, and see you all there later this year!”
From Green Lung frontman Tom Templar “We can’t wait to grace the hallowed ground of Fernhill Farm for the first time – Arctangent is without doubt one of the most forward-thinking and diverse heavy festivals going, and we’re excited to bring some old school British heavy metal thunder to what is already a stellar lineup. If the scheduling team are reading this, please don’t let us clash with Melvins.”
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A full list of bands announced today (February 4th, 2025)
for Arctangent Festival 2025:
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Wardruna (Wednesday Headliner) / TesseracT (Saturday Headliner) / Clown Core / Leprous / Mew / SLIFT / Arab Strap / Green Lung / Kalandra / Unprocessed / Pelican / Ahab / envy / Sungazer / Emma Ruth Rundle / Future Of The Left / VOWER / Car Bomb / delving / Coilguns / Year Of No Light / Teeth Of The Sea / COLOSSAL SQUID / Healthyliving / Hundred Year Old Man / Tangled Hair / Lowen / REZN / Anciients / Battlesnake / Meryl Streek / OMO / A Swarm Of The Sun / Mt. Onsra / Horrendous / Royal Sorrow / Sometime In February / Love Rarely / Vincent Vocoder Voice / EYES / Overhead, The Albatross / palmeras negras / SURE / YOSHIZAWA / Hexcut / The Gorge / Bipolar Architecture / Underdark / God Alone / Thank / Sans Froid / Codespeaker / street grease / Lemondaze
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Here is the FULL list of bands, including those announced today, in day order for
Arctangent Festival 2025:
WEDNESDAY
Wardruna (Headliner) / SLIFT / Kalandra / Year Of No Light / Teeth Of The Sea / COLOSSAL SQUID / Healthyliving / Hundred Year Old Man / Underdark / God Alone / Thank / Sans Froid
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THURSDAY
Leprous / Melvins / Arab Strap / Sungazer / We Lost The Sea / The Fall of Troy (Doppelganger in full) / Pelican / Kylesa / Lowen / Tangled Hair / REZN / Battlesnake / Tayne / Meryl Streek / Maud The Moth / Drongo / Ni / Horrendous / Royal Sorrow / The Gorge / Bipolar Architecture / Codespeaker / As Living Arrows / street grease / Lemondaze
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FRIDAY
Karnivool (Headliner) / Mew / Green Lung / envy / We Lost The Sea (Departure Songs in full) / Emma Ruth Rundle / Between The Buried And Me (Colors in full) / Future Of The Left / Gost / VOWER / Car Bomb / delving / Alpha Male Tea Party / Coilguns / Heave Blood & Die / Anciients / Giant Walker / Papangu / Mt. Onsra / meth. / EYES / Overhead, The Albatross / palmeras negras / Chalk Hands / SURE / YOSHIZAWA / Hexcut
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SATURDAY
TesseracT (Headliner) / Clown Core / Rolo Tomassi / Between The Buried And Me / Unprocessed / Inter Arma / Adebisi Shank / DVNE / Sleepytime Gorilla Museum / Ahab / Kayo Dot / Vessels / Sugar Horse / A Swarm Of The Sun / OMO / Sometime In February / Love Rarely / Burner / Boneflower / Vincent Vocoder Voice
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How to get to Arctangent Festival –
https://arctangent.co.uk/info/getting-to-arctangent/
Ticket Link for Arctangent 2025 is –
https://arctangent.co.uk/tickets/
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A little bit about Arctangent Festival (ATG):
Taking place near Bristol between the 13th August and the 16th August, the festival celebrated its TENTH year in 2024, and was once again shortlisted at the Festival Awards (which 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.
The award winning Arctangent Festival is a green fields music festival that delivers line-ups you won’t find anywhere else on Earth. Arctangent Festival has built a reputation for itself as THE emerging UK rock festival, both putting on exclusive performances from exceptional, worldwide artists and supporting new, exciting talent. Arctangent Festival is a fully independent festival that grows organically year on year
Previous acts include Mogwai, Heilung, Devin Townsend, Opeth, Messhugah, Coheed and Cambria, Battles, Shellac, Converge, Glassjaw, Explosions In The Sky, Russian Circles, Nordic Giants, Mono, Tesseract, American Football, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Baroness, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Electric Wizard, Carpenter Brut, Deafheaven, La Dispute, Spiritualised, Sikth, Empire State Bastard, HEALTH, Cave In, Igorrr, Animals As Leaders, Cult of Luna, Deerhoof, This Will Destroy You, 65daysofstatic, Zeal & Ardour, Ho99o9, Daughters, Loathe, Pigs7, Brutus, Red Fang, F**k Buttons, Fronterier, Enslaved, Black Peaks, Pupil Slicer, Ithaca, The Ocean, Rolo Tomassi, Arcane Roots, Employed To Serve and many, many more.