The Bristol-based festival ArcTanGent has unveiled twenty-one new bands for its 2022 line-up, after postponing the 2021 festival. ArcTanGentl has been running since 2013, and since then has been known as one of the most popular British summer festivals for music inhabiting the spheres of math rock, post-rock, progressive metal, and numerous other subgenres of rock and experimental music. In the past, the festival has featured a large number of well-revered and long-running musical groups such as Explosions In The Sky, Meshuggah, Deafheaven and Russian Circles.
On the 21st of May 2021, when many other UK festivals such as End Of The Road and Reading & Leeds were still set to go ahead, ArcTanGent was unfortunately cancelled. In a statement, it was explained exactly why they could not go forward with the proceedings this year: “Every single festival in the U.K. has been asking for months for a Government backed insurance policy allowing us to confidently host events this year. We were hopeful that this insurance would be in place by now, but they simply keep ignoring our requests and without it a festival this year is just too risky.”
// Hi folks, we have some good news and we have some bad news. Please read our full statement at https://t.co/fpouTKI42C pic.twitter.com/BN49woozcs
— ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) May 21, 2021
ArcTanGent was, however, able to reveal the silver lining of the situation in that same statement, confirming that any tickets purchased for the 2021 festival were automatically valid for the following year, as well as confirming a number of bands, including the crushingly heavy Belgian sludge metal outfit Amenra, the highly esoteric hardcore punk/powerviolence group The Locust, as well as some extremely big names such as progressive metal titans Opeth. As of today, ArcTanGent has revealed an additional twenty-one bands for its 2022 line-up, initially making the announcement on Twitter. Some of the new additions include the American math rock band The Fall Of Troy, known for their high energy instrumentals and technical guitar work, Delta Sleep, Hail The Sun, Talons, and Swedish avant-garde metal group Zeal & Ardor.
UPDATE 06/11
ArcTangent Festival has now announced the addition of thirty-six fantastic new bands to the line-up. One of the most exciting groups to join the roster is American doom metal outfit Pallbearer, who will be celebrating the ninth anniversary of their debut full-length Sorrow and Extinction by playing the record in full. Also joining the line-up is the psychedelic rock/doom metal group Elephant Tree, London mathcore band Pupil Slicer and doom metal band Conjurer. You can see the full line-up below.
// ICYMI, we announced a cartload of new bands this week, so here’s your one stop discovery shop – the ArcTanGent 2022 playlist. Get to know all the bands on the #ATG2022 line up here: https://t.co/W98Gd5Qm8A pic.twitter.com/ftBCiGShYY
— ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) November 5, 2021
According to a recent press release, a member of Pupil Slicer stated: “ArcTanGent was the first music festival I ever attended and was instrumental in my love of music. The scope of bands ATG brings together across so many genres has been hugely inspirational for the direction of Pupil Slicer. It has been our dream to play ATG ever since we started the project and are honoured to be a part of this event alongside many fantastic bands that we look up to.”
UPDATE 29/03/2022
ArcTanGent Festival has now announced sixteen new acts for the 2022 line-up. Joining the roster are legendary Providence noise rock duo Lightning Bolt, eclectic UK singer-songwriter Jamie Lenman, math rock trio Covet, stoner rock outfit Bossk, Nottingham five-piece Palm Reader, Thank You Scientist, DVNE, Blanket, Zetra, Tuskar, El Moono, Heirot, Ithaca, Rubbing and Greywave. The festival will now also play host to the debut performance by Skin Failure, a band that features Will Gardner and Dave Larkin from the now-defunct Black Peaks.
ATG Festival organiser James Scarlett said, according to a press release:“This announcement might be considered the icing on the cake, but really it is so much more than that. I’ve been trying to book Lighting Bolt ever since we started ATG, so it feels like a really big booking now it has finally happened. I also think that DVNE are basically the best up and coming band in the UK, so everyone needs to check them out now – For Fans Of Mastodon and Cult of Luna. I can’t wait for August!”
You can view the up to date lineup poster below:
ArcTanGent festival will run from August 17th-20th of next year. Tickets can be bought here, and any additional information regarding the festival can be found at this link.
