Arctangent Festival has announced its first main stage headliner for 2020, as a UK 2020 exclusive, Opeth! The band will continue touring behind its In Cauda Venenum album, out now via Nuclear Blast. They will be joined by Tesseract (UK festival exclusive), This Will Destroy You, Amenra (UK 2020 exclusive), Ihsahn, Perturbator, Rolo Tomassi (performing two full albums sets – ‘Grievances’ and ‘Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It’), Earthtone9, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Fronterier and many more to be announced. The fest takes place on August 20th/21st/22nd 2020 at Fernhill Farm, Compton Martin near Bristol, and tickets are on sale now at the link below.

https://arctangent.co.uk/tickets/

Festival organiser James Scarlett explains a bit about this first announcement and the importance of the first headliner for him and ArcTanGent – “Opeth’s Ghost Reveries is one of two albums (the other being the Mars Volta’s Frances the Mute) that I always credit with setting me on the leftfield musical path that has led to the line ups I book every year at ATG. In 2005 I’d never heard anything like it and from there onwards my musical tastes just took off and led me to all my favourite bands. Essentially what I’m saying is that Opeth was part of the original ArcTanGent DNA and so I couldn’t be happier to announce that they’re joining us at Fernhill Farm for a Friday Main Stage headline set! I also just realised it will be almost exactly 15 years since Ghost Reveries was released – amazing!”

From singer/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth – “We’re excited to play the ArcTanGent festival in Bristol on the 21st of August 2020. Been to Bristol a few times and it’s always a pleasure. It’ll be one of the last festivals we play that summer, so we wanna “go out with a bang” and need your help and participation to do so.”

From James Monteith of TesseracT – “It’s a huge honour to be asked back to ATG to play in 2020, probably the most forward thinking rock music festival in the UK. It’ll be our only UK festival performance of the year, so we’re planning to make it a very special occasion. We have an exciting new production and stage design in the works, and maybe.. just maybe there might be some new music too. Bring on ATG 2020!”

From CHVE from Amenra – “We’re very happy to finally play Arctangent, it’s been ages since we’ve been talking aboutit. Now at last we made it to the lineup. We’ve played more UK dates than ever in the past couple of years, and this show will be the crown.”

From Ihsahn – “My very first tour outside of Norway was in the UK, back in 1993, and since then I’ve always loved coming back. This will be my first performance at the Arctangent festival and also in the Bristol area and I very much look forward to play.”

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For a full list of bands announced for ArcTanGent Festival 2020, see below:

Opeth (Friday Main Stage Headliner)

TesseracT (Friday Main Stage Sub-Headliner)

This Will Destroy You (Saturday Yokhai Stage Headliner)

Amenra (Thursday Main Stage Sub-Headliner)

Ihsahn (Friday Yokhai Stage Sub-Headliner)

Perturbator

Rolo Tomassi (two full album sets over the weekend)

Earthtone9

Giraffes? Giraffes!

Frontierer

GosT (Friday PX3 Stage Headliner)

Raketkanon

Quail vs Kenny (this is a special ATG commissioned set featuring a collaboration between Jo Quail and Howard James Kenny)

Scalping

OHHMS (performing two sets over the weekend, one of which will be a specially comissioned film called ‘SUBJECTS’)

Svalbard

Alpha Male Tea Party

Stake

Curse These Metal Hands

Boss Keloid

Body Hound

VASA

Luo,

BRIQUEVILLE

FES

TANKENGINE

The K.

Mountain Caller