Desertfest has announced its triumphant return and has provided the event’s impressive and showstopping line-up. The event’s new dates have been announced as April 29th until 1st May 2022 and will take place over three days, with two more days added at The Roundhouse in accordance with the event’s missed years.
Ten years ago, Desertfest was birthed in the UK and since then has committed to providing its unique celebration of heavy music that encompasses such genres as stoner rock and doom, now the Festival is back and larger than ever to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Desertfest has announced a line-up full of over 75 bands, which will be split between six of Camden’s most famed venues and various stages. The event will not just feature a line up full of music’s most powerful bands but will also return with a new stage called PowerHaus. The new stage will feature acts such as, Gnod, Slift and Hey Colossus, a rock outfit from London whose 2020 LP ‘Dances/Curses’ was released to great applause.
The line-up also includes three bands who played the initial event in 2012, Corrosion of Conformity, Orange Goblin and Truckfighters. As well as some exclusive UK performances including the Swedish doom metal band, Witchcraft, who will also be returning to the UK after ten years, making the festival their only UK performance in a decade. The event will also see the doom metal band Khemmis play their first UK performance, plus many more acts from the 2020 line up. The festival will also see a UK debut appearance on the heavy metal Black Heart stage from Spirit Adrift, the American heavy metal band whom Kerrang! has included in their list of top ten American bands from the 2010s.
Camden’s most popular rock club, The Underworld, will play host to such bands as Integrity, Switchblade, Huntsmen and London’s own Green Lung. The Devonshire Arms will be home to the scene’s finest underground acts held over three stages, where ticket-holders can expect to see such acts as Gurt, another hometown band and doom rockers 1782.
Due to COVID restrictions, the last two years were unfortunately cancelled but now the festival promises to bring their celebration of music back and better than ever. The complete list of acts performing at Desertfest can be seen in the festival’s full line up.
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