Damnation Festival have announced the line-up for their upcoming 2022 event, which will take place on the 5th of November at Manchester’s Bec Arena. Presently, fourteen artists have been announced for the forthcoming festival.
Having long been an event for those with more extreme palettes, Damnation Festival 2022 features a whole host of exciting heavy artists. First and foremost, headline sets will be performed by legendary industrial metal outfit Ministry, and the highly influential hardcore punk/metalcore titans Converge. In addition to this, the long-standing and well-revered American grindcore band Pig Destroyer will be playing at the festival, as well as death metal/grindcore group Full Of Hell, a band well known for encompassing almost all aspects of extreme music in their catalogue of work, including hardcore punk, powerviolence, death metal, sludge metal and noise rock. The band hails from Maryland, USA, and recently released their eighth full-length studio album Garden of Burning Apparitions, which sees the ambitious group taking their established sound in a more noise-rock driven direction. Check out the album here.
For those who gravitate towards the slower, more droning side of heavy music; the festival has you covered with a selection of some of the best doom/sludge metal bands out there, including Arkansas-based riff-masters Pallbearer-who will also be playing at ArcTanGent festival next year-as well as a collaborative set between Bell Witch and dark folk artist Aerial Ruin, who recorded an album together in 2020, entitled Stygian Bough Volume I.
Also on the bill are Canadian deathcore outfit Despised Icon, progressive/psychedelic rock band Elder, German thrash group Destruction, and renowned American black metallers Wolves In The Throne Room.
The festival is not all pummelling riffs and demonic growling however, as Australian post-rock band We Lost The Sea were recently added to the roster, joking on Twitter: “In fact, looks like we’re the only band that uses a clean tone”.
The announcement of the event comes mere weeks after Damnation Festival 2021 occurred, meaning that more acts will likely be announced in the coming months.
To re-iterate, Damnation Festival will take place at Bec Arena in Manchester on the 5th of November 2022. More information about the festival can be found here, including the line-up, tickets, official Damnation Festival merchandise, and a link to the festival’s very own podcast, which features special guests such as band members and festival organisers. According to a tweet from Damnation Festival themselves, 2,000 tickets have presently been sold.