The award winning ARCTANGENT Festival can today reveal its final main stage headliner 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!
Also announced today are Chicago math rock band Snooze, who join the HUGE list of already announced bands and acts like other main stage headliners Wardruna, Karnivool and Tesseract. Also playing this summer include Leprous, Melvins, Arab Strap, Mew, Green Lung, Clown Core, Rolo Tomassi, Sungazer, We Lost The Sea, The Fall Of Troy, Maybeshewill, Pelican, Kylessa, Frontierer, envy, Emma Ruth Rundle and many, many more.
The brand new ARCTANGENT Festival App is now live, 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 – “We’ve been trying to book Godspeed for a number of years so we’re delighted to finally bring them back to ATG for the first time since they played in 2016. I don’t think it’s an understatement to say they are literally one of the best post-rock bands on the planet and a perfect ArcTanGent headliner. This is going to be a truly unique experience.”
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Here is the FULL list of bands, including those announced today, for
ARCTANGENT Festival 2025:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Headliner) / 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 (Doppelgänger in full) / Maybeshewill / Pelican / Kylesa / Frontierer / envy / We Lost The Sea (Departure Songs in full) / Emma Ruth Rundle / Between The Buried And Me / Future Of The Left / Gost / VOWER / Nordic Giants* / Ithaca / Between The Buried And Me (Colors in full) / 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 / Snooze / 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.
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Best Small Festival winner at the UK Festival Awards 2018, ARCTANGENT Festival
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