Standard weekend tickets still available via FortressFestival.co.uk/tickets
Scarborough, UK; 24 September 2024: Fortress Festival has revealed the final line-up and poster for the 2025 edition of the biggest black metal event in the UK.
Closing the line-up are four additional bands: Fen, Autumn Nostalgie, Crimson Throne and Nemorous.
UK atmospheric black metallers Fen will perform a UK exclusive full album performance of their 2009 debut album “The Malediction Fields”. “‘The Malediction Fields’ era was an incredible time for us”, said the band. “We were feeling our way through the genesis of the band, defining our sound and very much doing things on our own terms. It was an exciting period of discovery, experimenting with ideas, textures and ambience as we observed the post-black metal sound and ‘blackgaze’ scenes emerge around us.”
Fen added: “What better place to celebrate our history and perform that album in full than at Fortress Festival? An event almost tailor-made for the atmospheric, reflective-yet-furious ambiences we were looking to create. To do so with Agalloch as headliners – one of the first bands we ever played with and an act who showed us so much support and encouragement – just underlines how beautifully fate has decreed that this must happen! Until then – keep it bleak and cometh the hour, we will then bring the bleakness…”
Slovak post-black metal/ambient outfit Autumn Nostalgie will make their exclusive UK debut at Fortress Festival and perform their 2020 debut album “Esse Est Percipi” in full.
In a UK exclusive show, Atmospheric UK black metallers Crimson Throne will present their yet-unreleased and unannounced second full-length album at Fortress Festival.
Atmospheric UK black metal act Nemorous (formed from the ashes of Wodensthrone) will also present their yet-unreleased and unannounced debut album at Fortress Festival.
Fortress Festival will take place on the weekend of 31 May - 1 June 2025 at Scarborough Spa. Standard weekend tickets are on sale: https://www.fortressfestival.co.uk/tickets
Fen, Autumn Nostalgie, Crimson Throne and Nemorous join Agalloch, 1349, Ulcerate, Forteresse, RUÏM, Moonlight Sorcery, Afsky, The Great Old Ones, Spirit Possession, Perchta, Belore, Akhlys, Grift, Selbst, Perennial Isolation, Aquilus, Suldusk, Abduction and Devastator for what is promising to be another extraordinary weekend for black metal fans.
Agalloch will perform a 2025 European exclusive headlining show; their first in the UK since the band’s reformation and the first in the UK since 2015. 1349 will headline the main stage on Saturday, 31 May 2025, following the release of their eighth studio album "The Wolf And The King”. New Zealand unorthodox death metallers Ulcerate will perform a UK exclusive set following their recently released “Cutting the Throat of God”. RUÏM - with iconic former Mayhem guitarist and Vltimas founder, Blasphemer - will perform a UK debut and exclusive show. Forteresse will perform a UK exclusive show at Fortress, returning to the stage following a seven-year and ice-cold slumber. Moonlight Sorcery comes to Fortress with an international exclusive set, a UK and international debut and the only show outside of Finland until at least 2026. Afsky will bring his melancholic and depressive Danish black metal to the Scarborough shore with the live band on the Fortress Festival main stage.
The Great Old Ones and Spirit Possession will perform UK exclusive shows, while it will be a UK debut and exclusive show for both Perchta and Belore. South American project Selbst will bring its music to a UK stage for the very first time with a UK debut and exclusive set, while Akhlys will perform a 2025 UK exclusive set. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its debut album “Syner”, Grift will perform the album in full with a UK exclusive set. Perennial Isolation will perform its iconic 2021 album “Portraits” in full in what will be a UK debut and exclusive performance from the Barcelona-based atmospheric black metal band. Australian acts Suldusk and Aquilus will perform their UK debuts with exclusive shows. Abduction, the UK black metal band, will return to Fortress and perform an exclusive full album set of their yet-unreleased fifth album. Devastator also return to Fortress Festival with its fist-pumping blackened thrash following the band’s appearance at the event’s inaugural edition in 2023.
Get your tickets now: https://www.fortressfestival.co.uk/tickets