Other new names on the lineup include grindcore duo Clown Core, Norwegian proggers Leprous, and French psych-rockers Slift. Also announced were Arab Strap, Emma Ruth Rundle, Kalandra, Mew and Green Lung – the last two bands marked as UK festival exclusives.

This new crop of artists will join a bill that features Karnivool as Friday nights headliners, Melvins, Rolo Tomassi, Kylesa, Adebisi Shank, Fall Of Troy and Between The Buried and Me. The festival will take place from August 13 – 16 in at Fernhill Farm in Bristol, with tickets on sale now.

In a press release, James Monteith, guitarist of Tesseract said: “We’re beyond excited to headline the Saturday at Arctangent 2025! The lineup once again boasts some of the most innovative and forward-thinking alternative bands around, and we’re truly honoured to close out the festival. This show will also mark the conclusion of our two-year tour in support of ‘War of Being‘, so we’re planning a very special performance to celebrate this milestone.”

An important part of the “Djent” movement within progressive metal, Tesseract released their fifth studio album, ‘War of Being’ in 2023 to positive reviews, with critics hailing it as their strongest work to date.

On January 10 this year they treated fans with a Tour Edition of their latest album, to coincide with their ‘War of Being Part 2 Tour’ coming in February. This updated version adds three bonus tracks recorded live from their headline set at Radar Festival 2024, featuring Kat Marsh of Choir Noir.

Fellow headliners Wardruna dropped their sixth studio album, ‘Birna’, recently on January 25. Reviewers appreciated its instrumentation and earthly themes, with Silent Radio commenting: “This album does not only transport you to a forest, but it will also leave you in a trance. One which you would not want to get out of.”

Festival organiser and booker James Scarlett expressed his excitement for the 2025 lineup additions: “To have Wardruna, a Main Stage headliner, closing off the Wednesday night of ArcTanGent 2025 truly cements this as our biggest year yet.

“If you can make it to ATG a day early, a 4-Day ticket is now a no brainer. Not to mention Tesseract headlining Saturday night alongside the new additions of Clown Core, Mew, Arab Strap, Envy, Green Lung and tonnes more across the whole weekend. You’re not going to want to miss a second of this weekend – FOMO is an understatement.”

Arctangent has become a crucial festival for platforming post, math, metal and various other progressive rock artists. With a capacity of around 10,000, It’s maintained its charm as a smaller, intimate event, where both upcoming acts and more renowned names are celebrated for their experimental music. Last year, the festival organisers fulfilled a longstanding wish of theirs, featuring Scottish post-rock titans Mogwai as a headliner for Arctangent’s 10^th anniversary.

James Scarlett told MusicRadar: “Doing this without any corporate backing is tough but we’ve got there, and it makes me very proud to sit back and think about all the wonderful times we’ve had. Roll on year 20!”

The Arctangent 2025 lineup and other details can be viewed on the festival’s official website here.

UPDATE 27/3/2025: Arctangent Festival has just announced their final festival headliner for their next event – Godspeed, You! Black Emperor will be performing a European exclusive set on the main stage, returning to Arctangent after a nine year gap. Also newly announced on the bill are Chicago math rockers Snooze, who will be joining the stacked lineup for this year’s edition.

Other acts to be recently confirmed include: Maybeshewill, Frontierer, Mclusky, God Is An Astronaut (as a UK exclusive show), The Callous Daoboys (as a UK exclusive festival show), who all add to the already exciting and eclectic metal lineup.

Stood at war with ourselves

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War Of Being will be yours September 15th. Pre-orders and exclusive bundles are now available from the official TesseracT web stores.

The division breeching
lowly we draw our weapons
And take one last deep breath
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— TesseracT (@tesseractband) July 13, 2023

The Milton-Keynes five-piece have been teasing new material for some time now and fans of the band will rejoice at the news that Tesseract will be releasing War of Being 0n 15th September. The group have also just dropped their first single of the new record- accompanied by a video-also called “War Of Being.”

The new album is set to be the band’s most ambitious and conceptual record to date. Tesseract, always a band noted for its intricate musical patterns and originators of the Djent metal style, are continuing their all-immersive, story driven sonic adventures. “War Of Being” is an eleven minute mammoth of a song-the story of which is set in the fictional world of Strangeland. The two protagonist characters ‘ex’ and ‘el’ have crash landed in the world and separated, all while having to face a new foe called ‘Fear’.

For many bands, concept projects can be a hit or miss success but Tesseract are well-versed in the art of telling a compelling story to match their aural capabilities. 2020’s cinematic experience titled, Portals, pushed the band into uncharted waters, as the group filmed themselves performing songs that spanned their entire discography.

Speaking about the new album, bassist Amos Williams said, “War of Being has been all-encompassing for us since late 2019. After I returned home from filming Portals, I found myself in such a deeply introspective headspace. The scale of work and reward from that project kind of set this up to be inevitable. We simply had to try and see how far we could take a concept album with Tesseract.”

Began in 2003 by guitarist Acle Kahney, Tesseract gained world-wide attention with the release of their third studio album Polaris. Since then, the band have been growing from strength to strength, pushing themselves to continue to expand the band’s limits with each release. With a 5 year gap between Sonder and War of Being, Tesseract are ready to pick up where they left off-cementing themselves as one of the most important bands in modern prog-rock.

So excited to announce that we will be on the UK & Europe dates of @tesseractband’s War Of Being tour alongside @Unprocessedband!!!!

Tickets on sale Friday. pic.twitter.com/zdswBp1IQA

— The Callous Daoboys (@callousdaoboys) July 12, 2023

Tesseract’s world tour will see the band begin in North America for the autumn, before travelling throughout Europe in the new year. Supporting the band on their massive globetrotting campaign will be Intervals, Unprocessed, Alluvial and The Callous Doaboys. Tickets will go on sale, Friday 14 July and can be found here. War of Being can be pre-ordered here.

Tesseract UK and Europe Tour:

18/01/2024 – Rockhal – Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
19/01 – CCO La Rayonne – Villeurbanne, France
20/01 – Sala Apolo – Barcelona, Spain
21/01 – Sala MON Live Madrid – Madrid, Spain
23/01 – Bataclan – Paris, France
25/01 – Artefact La Laiterie – Strasbourg, France
26/01 – Muziekcentrum Trix – Antwerp, Belgium
27/01 – Im Wizemann – Stuttgart, Germany
28/01 – Alcatraz – Milan, Italy
30/01- Komplex – Zurich, Switzerland
01/02 – Palac Akropolis – Prague, Cech Republic
02/02 – Backstage Halle – Munich, Germany
03/02 – Simm City – Vienna, Austria
04/02 – Barba Negra – Budapest, Hungary
06/02 – Columbia Theater – Berlin, Germany
07/02 – Progresja – Warsaw, Poland
09/02 – Tampereen tavara-asema – Tampere, Finland
10/02 – Tavastia Club – Helsinki, Finland
12/02 – Fryshuset Klubben – Stockholm, Sweden
13/02 – Vulkan Oslo – Oslo, Norway
15/02 – Amager Bio – Copenhagen, Denmark
16/02 – Gruenspan – Hamburg, Germany
17/02 – Carlswerk Victoria – Cologne, Germany
18/02 – Tivoli Vredenburg – Utrecht, Netherlands
20/02 – Rock City – Nottingham
21/02 – O2 Institute – Birmingham
22/02 – O2 Academy Bristol – Bristol
23/02 – O2 Forum Kentish Town – London
24/02 – O2 Ritz Manchester – Manchester
25/02 – SWG3 – Glasgow
27/02 – The Academy, Middle Abbey Street – Dublin

On the 21^st 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.”

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— 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 17^th-20^th of next year. Tickets can be bought here, and any additional information regarding the festival can be found at this link.

The full European tour was announced earlier last month but the absence of any UK dates caused an uproar across the bands’ social media channels and the great news were delivered yesterday with the caption “UK, we heard you loud and clear!” Tickets for all four dates go in general sale at 4pm on Wednesday 9 December via Trivium’s official website. The tour is officially sponsored by merch store EMP.

UK, we heard you loud and clear! We will be returning next year with our friends @officialhsb, @tesseractband and special guest @fitforanautopsy! Tickets go on sale this Wednesday at 4pm GMT at https://t.co/JjgLjyhmSV! pic.twitter.com/SAIe8dbpg9

— Trivium (@TriviumOfficial) December 7, 2020

Trivium hardly need an introduction with almost two decades of dictating the trends in the global contemporary metal scene and hailed as one of the most influential heavy music band in the new millennium. With their first three records certified gold in the UK, the band has a particularly solid local fan base and have scored six top 20 Album Chart entries across their last seven releases. Their latest What The Dead Man Say came out 24 April this year via Roadrunner Records and peaked at #12, with Kerrang! giving it 4/5 and praising the band for “being one of the greatest 21^st century metal bands” and Louder adding they truly are “on the form of their lives right now“.

Equally influential, German metalcore/deathcore godfathers Heaven Shall Burn also find themselves at the peak of their music career after storming the Central European Charts with their ninth studio record Of Truth and Sacrifice released on 20 March 2020 via Century Media. Well known worldwide for openly criticising issues with racism, social opression and animal welfare, the band collaborated with the extreme non-profit marine conservation organisation Sea Shepherd in February for the single ‘My Heart And The Ocean‘ raising awareness of whaling and ocean pollution. Claiming a record top spot in Germany alongside #4 in Austria and #6 Switzerland, the quintet is ready to finally return to the UK after 7 years and deliver yet another “massive” memorable set.

 

 

 

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Representing the UK on the monumental line-up are Milton Keynes djent/prog metal heavyweights Teserract. With four critically acclaimed studio albums, the quintet has quickly earned the reputation of one of the leading British bands in the genre, boasting an almost cult status amongst their loyal fanbase. Few years ago frontman Dan Tompkins started a solo project, releasing the debut album Castles in 2019 and recently announcing its heavier re-work Ruins for this Friday 11 December, featuring the exciting collaboration ‘The Gift‘ with Matt Heafy of Trivium.

Tesseract’s last album Sonder came out in April 2018 via Kscope but they have been fairly quiet since, with no hints on new material expected any time soon. The band is bringing the unique live cinematic experience ‘Portals‘ this Saturday 12 December, with tickets for the virtual show available here.

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Joining Trivium, Heaven Shall Burn and Tesseract as special guests are the US deathcore outfit Fit For An Autopsy, bringing their latest 2019 record The Sea Of Tragic Beasts to the UK for the first time. All dates for the joined UK tour are listed bellow:

11/11/2021 – O2 Academy – Glasgow
12/11 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
13/11 – Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
14/11 – O2 Academy Brixton – London

ArcTanGent is a rock music festival held annually at Fernhill Farm near Bristol. First emerged in 2013, the festival—despite focusing on independent rock acts—has gained much popularity in the UK music scene, with an accolade as Best Small Festival from the UK Festival Awards 2018 and a nomination for the Best Line-Up award.

The festival is made up of five alternating stages, with Arc as the main one for big headliners. It also features a silent disco from 11pm to 3am every night after all the performances, alongside a variety of food and bar vendors and camping. Also, the festival promotes itself for the “friendliest and most chilled audience” one will ever find at any festival.

Opeth, a progressive metal band from Stockholm, is this year’s main headliner that will take over the Arc stage. Formed in 1989, the band has released over ten studio albums, with their twelfth LP Sorceress (2016) as their most successful record in the UK. It reached number 11 on the UK Albums Chart, spawning singles such as the title track, “Will O the Wisp”, and “The Wilde Flowers”.

Apart from the Swedish rockers, gothic rock singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe has been recently announced as one of the leading names to headline the Fernhill Farm festival. She is a 36-year-old musician from Sacramento, California who has been in the gothic rock scene since 2010. In spite of being acclaimed among the underground music scene, Wolfe has embarked on tour around the globe, gaining many followers for her eccentric music that blends folk with electronics and heavy metal. Last year, she just released the sixth LP titled Birth of Violence, which she will bring the songs to the stage at the festival.

Elsewhere on the bill, two American metal bands Bell Witch and Aerial Ruins will collaborate for the metal fans at the festival. Also, there will be performances from The Hyena Kill, Petbrick, Teeth of the Sea, Bristol electronic duo Luo, and many more.

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— ArcTanGent (@ATGFestival) February 28, 2020

TesseracT’s latest release, Altered State, came out earlier this year. Check out the video for their track Singularity here: