ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL – Announces another wave of bands

ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL 2025 – 13/14/15/16th AUGUSTA HOST OF BANDS ANNOUNCED TODAY INCLUDE MAYBESHEWILL, FRONTIERER, MCLUSKY, GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (AS A UK EXCLUSIVE SHOW), THE CALLOUS DAOBOYS (AS A UK EXCLUSIVE FESTIVAL SHOW) + MANY MORE

ALREADY ANNOUNCED INCLUDE WARDRUNA, KARNIVOOL, TESSERACT, CLOWN CORE, LEPROUS, MEW (UK FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE), SLIFT, ARAB STRAP, GREEN LUNG (UK FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE), MELVINS, ROLO TOMASSI, KYLESA, DVNE, UNPROCESSED, KALANDRA, PELICAN, ENVY (UK EXCLUSIVE SHOW), EMMA RUTH RUNDLE, ITHACA + MANY MORE

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

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 now been launched, which will allow access to the festival clash-finder, as well as be a great place to be the first to hear about announcements, discounts, merch drops and more. We also have a new artwork poster created by John Baizley from Baroness and a brand new shiny website (go see!).

ARCTANGENT Festival will be taking place on the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th of August 2025, tickets for the event are on sale now, and available from – HERE

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From ARCTANGENT Festival organiser and booker, James Scarlett – “ARCTANGENT Festival 2025 has truly become a diverse spectrum of extraordinary sounds that we’re all extremely proud of at ATG HQ. From ground-breaking live band silent disco sets to even more one-of-a-kind sets (Maybeshewill with accompanying strings will be something to behold), it’s really starting to feel like this summer’s most unique music festival is right around the corner.”

From Maybeshewill – “To mark our 20th year as a band we wanted to put together a special set that looked back on the whole of our career. Drawing on some rarely performed songs from our back catalogue, we’ll be joined by an ensemble of additional musicians who have played with us over the years. ArcTanGent has always felt like home to us, and it felt like the perfect setting to celebrate this milestone amongst friends.”

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A full list of bands announced today (March 26th, 2025)
for ARCTANGENT Festival 2025:

Maybeshewill / Frontierer / Mclusky / God Is An Astronaut / The Callous Daoboys / Waldo’s Gift / Nordic Giants* / AK/DK* /  Lost in Kiev / Pothamus / Yard* / Wren / vianova / Swamp Coffin / JOHN CXNNOR [Doom Rave DJ-set]* / The Sad Season / The Grey / Lo! / 2 Promoters 1 Pod
*  = Silent Disco Live Performance

Here is the FULL list of bands, including those announced today, for
ARCTANGENT Festival 2025:

Wardruna (Headliner) / Karnivool (Headliner) / TesseracT (Headliner) / Leprous / Melvins / Arab Strap / Mew / Green Lung / Clown Core / Rolo Tomassi / Sungazer / We Lost The Sea / The Fall of Troy / Maybeshewill / Pelican / Kylesa / Frontierer / envy / We Lost The Sea / Emma Ruth Rundle / Between The Buried And Me / Future Of The Left / Gost / VOWER / Nordic Giants* / Ithaca / Between The Buried And Me / SLIFT / Kalandra / Unprocessed / Mclusky / God Is An Astronaut / Car Bomb / delving / Alpha Male Tea Party / Coilguns / Inter Arma / Adebisi Shank / DVNE / Sleepytime Gorilla Museum / The Callous Daoboys / Waldo’s Gift / Ahab / Kayo Dot / Vessels / Sugar Horse / Year Of No Light / Teeth Of The Sea / AK/DK* / COLOSSAL SQUID / Lowen / Lost in Kiev / Tangled Hair / Pothamus / Yard* / REZN / vianova / Battlesnake / Tayne / Meryl Streek / Maud The Moth / Drongo / Ni / The Sad Season / Horrendous / The Gorge / Codespeaker / As Living Arrows / street grease / The Grey / Lemondaze / Heave Blood & Die / Anciients / Giant Walker / Papangu / Mt. Onsra / meth. / EYES / Overhead, The Albatross / palmeras negras / Chalk Hands / SURE / YOSHIZAWA / Hexcut / Wren / Swamp Coffin / JOHN CXNNOR [Doom Rave DJ-set]* / Lo! / A Swarm Of The Sun / Royal Sorrow / Bipolar Architecture / OMO / Sometime In February / Love Rarely / Burner / Boneflower / Vincent Vocoder Voice / Healthyliving / Hundred Year Old Man / Underdark / God Alone / Thank / Sans Froid / 2 Promoters 1 Pod
*  = Silent Disco Live Performance

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How to get to ArcTanGent Festival – HERE
Ticket Link for ArcTanGent 2025 is – HERE
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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.