Godspeed You! Black Emperor is Announced As The Final Main Stage Headliner ArcTanGent Festival 2025


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The award-winning ArcTanGent Festival can today reveal its final main stage eadliner as Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The absolutely incredible Canadian post-rock collective return to ATG after a nine-year gap, completing this summers brilliant main stage headliners. Truly a unique, stunning, much-loved band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor will be performing a 2025 exclusive European show at ArcTanGent Festival, so if you want to see them, this is the only place to be!Continue reading


Uprising Festival 2025 Books Giant Walker, Forlorn, and Vnder A Crvmbling Moon for Church Road Records Showcase


Leicester, UK metal festival, Uprising, has announced that the 2025 edition of its Night Before Uprising event will be a showcase of the Church Road Records artist roster. Taking place at the Firebug venue on Friday 23rd May, it is set to feature performances from Giant Walker, Forlorn, and Vnder A Crvmbling Moon. Keep reading below to find out more.
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Arctangent Festival 2025 Books New Headliners Wardruna, TesseracT, with Clown Core, Leprous, Mew, Slift, Arab Strap, Green Lung, Pelican, Emma Ruth Rundle, and More


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)!Continue reading


NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: New Rock and Metal Releases for 1-31-25


From underground gems to headline-worthy drops It’s New Music Friday for 1-31-25!

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PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases for 1-31-25


From underground gems to headline-worthy drops It’s New Music Friday for 1-31-25!

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Black Orchid Empire, Defences, The Grey, and More Booked for Uprising Festival


Leicester, UK indoor rock and metal festival, Uprising, has announced a new wave of bands for its eighth instalment. Black Orchid Empire, Defences, Obeyer, Tayne, The Grey, and Sulvain now join the bill, which already features Earthtone9, Lowen and others. The event takes place Saturday 24th May, at the O2 Academy. Find out more below.
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2000trees Festival 2025 Books Headliners Kneecap, PVRIS, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed And Cambria, Alexisonfire and More


2000trees Festival can today announce five (yes, that is FIVE) main stage headliners for its 2025 event. For the first time in the festivals history, all of the main stage headliners have been announced at the same time, and announced nine months ahead of the event. The headliners include Kneecap, PVRIS, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed And Cambria, Alexisonfire, and many more band added.  

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MY FAVOURITE CONCERT MEMORY – Matthew Sutton (TAYNE)


Tayne is a London based Experimental, Noise, Pop outfit by Matthew Sutton. Tayne’s music is an aural assault that weld moody, atmospheric vocals, punishing guitars and overwhelming electronics, to pulsating rhythms that create an intense listening. Debut album Breathe (Strange Brew) is out now.Continue reading