Following the success of this year’s tenth anniversary festival, ArcTanGent Festival have announced the 2025 lineup, which includes the main stage headliner.
Set to take place between August 13-16, ArcTanGent Festival welcomes an award-winning service with incredibly phenomenal bands and a chilled ambience on the idyllic Fernhill Farm, near Bristol.
ANNOUNCEMENT. The first wave of bands for ArcTanGent 2025 is here.
We’re extremely proud to announce our Friday main stage headliner will be @karnivool! Hailing from Austrailia, this will be a UK exclusive.
Day + Evening tickets on sale now: https://t.co/Fp9nH3dNZ9 pic.twitter.com/i8482dsdQQ
— ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) October 1, 2024
As the up-and-coming rock festival of the UK, ArcTanGent Festival have constructed a reputation for their exciting, exclusive and eclectic line ups. So much so, following the success of its tenth festival, ArcTanGent Festival was once again shortlisted at the Festival Awards, an incredible achievement after their win of Best Small Festival in 2018.
Next year’s main stage headliner is the remarkable progressive metal band, Karnivool, who will be coming from Australia to make their ArcTanGent festival debut. Their appearance in the UK will see them perform an exclusive show alongside their appearance at the festival.
Karnivool released their most recent studio album Asymmetry back in 2013, the band’s highly anticipated new music is set to be well on the way, perhaps making an appearance at their ArcTanGent Festival set. The exclusivity of Karnivool’s appearance makes the announcement of their headline set a legendary and memorable moment for ArcTanGent Festival.
Upon their upcoming appearance at ArcTanGent next year, Karnivool emphasised: “How good is music? It thrills us from our collective hearts, excited to be circling the round round globe just to play this one show with some amazing acts and friends, ArcTanGent see you there! How good is music?”
Accompanying Karnivool, ArcTanGent Festival will welcome the appearance of Melvins, whose performance with be an UK festival exclusive, alongside one of the UK’s most legendary heavy bands Rolo Tomassi, psychedelic rock infused metal band Kylesa and the masters of metal, Scottish five-piece DVNE.
Rolo Tomassi commented on their appearance at next year’s ArcTanGent Festival stating: “When it came to deciding how to best celebrate our twentieth anniversary there was only one thing we had in mind. We’re delighted to be returning to ArcTanGent and look forward to putting together a special show for this incredibly special festival.”
James Scarlett, the ArcTanGent organiser has announced: “We go again! We’ve already got some huge reunions in the form of Kylesa, Adebiski Shank and Vessels, plus some legendary albums in full from The Fall Of Troy, We Lost The Sea and Between The Buried And Me. We’re also delighted to welcome Melvins and our Friday headliners, Karnivool, to their first ever ATG. We’re starting as we mean to go on – ArcTanGent 2025 is going to be ridiculous!”
Something is coming. pic.twitter.com/mlHfyKNFqJ — ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) September 27, 2024
ArcTanGent Festival continue to prove their presence in providing exceptional and exclusive sets from world-class acts from all over the world and at different stages of their careers. The anticipation built from the festivals appearance year after year allows ArcTanGent Festival to be fully independent due to the organic growth in popularity it witnesses.
The lineup for ArcTanGent Festival 2025 highlights the exclusive and legendary nature of the festival, it is certainly an event you will not want to miss.
Tickets can be purchased here.
