Godspeed You! Black Emperor Confirmed As Final Headliner For ArcTanGent 2025
ArcTanGent festival has announced their final main stage headliner for 2025.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (pictured) will return to the festival after nine years with a 2025 European exclusive show. Another new addition to the line-up is Chicago math-rock band Snooze.
They join the already stacked list of already announced bands and acts, led by other main stage headliners Wardruna, Karnivool and TesseracT.
Also set to perform this summer are Mclusky, God Is An Astronaut, Leprous, Melvins, Arab Strap, Mew, Green Lung, Clown Core, Rolo Tomassi, Sungazer, We Lost The Sea, The Fall Of Troy, Maybeshewill, Pelican, Kylessa, Frontierer, envy, Emma Ruth Rundle and many more.
The festival of math-rock, post-rock, noise-rock, alt-rock and everything in between will return for its 11th year to Fernhill Farm in Compton Martin in mid-August, with the first day of the event (August 13) open to four-day ticket holders only.
Head below for further details and line-up developments.
What? A four-day event with an eclectic line up of bands from all over the world, full of loud noises, sharp edges, weird time signatures and off-kilter hooks.
Where? Fernhill Farm in Compton Martin. It's just 10 miles from Bristol and two hours from London.
When? August 13-16, 2025.
Who? Headlining the weekend will be Wardruna,Godspeed You! Black Emperor (European live show exclusive for 2025), Karnivool (UK live show exclusive for 2025), and TesseracT on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, respectively.
Among the latest additions to the bill are Snooze, Mclusky, Frontierer, God Is An Astronaut, The Callous Daoboys, Maybeshewill, Waldo's Gift, Nordic Giants*, AKDK*, Lost in Kiev, Pothamus, YARD*, Wren, vianova, Swamp Coffin, JOHN CXNNOR [Doom Rave DJ-set]*, The Sad Season, The Grey, Lo!, and 2 Promoters, 1 Pod. (* = Live Silent Disco Set).
Also set to appear across the weekend are Melvins (UK festival exclusive), Rolo Tomassi, Between the Buried and Me (performing two sets, including one performing 'Colors' in full), Kylesa (UK festival exclusive), The Fall of Troy (playing 'Doppelganger' in full/UK festival exclusive), DVNE, We Lost The Sea (performing two sets, including one playing 'Departure Songs' in full), Adebisi Shank, Alpha Male Tea Party, Gost, Sugar Horse, Inter Arma, Kayo Dot, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Heave Blood & Die, Vessels, As Living Arrows, Burner, Boneflower, Chalk Hands, Drongo, Giant Walker, Maud the Moth, meth, Ni, Papangu, Tayne, Clown Core, Leprous, Mew, SLIFT, Arab Strap, Green Lung, Kalandra, Unprocessed, Pelican, Ahab, envy, Sungazer, Emma Ruth Rundle, Future Of The Left, VOWER, Car Bomb, delving, Coilguns, Year Of No Light, Teeth Of The Sea, COLOSSAL SQUID, Healthyliving, Hundred Year Old Man, Tangled Hair, Lowen, REZN, Anciients, Battlesnake, Meryl Streek, OMO, A Swarm Of The Sun, Mt. Onsra, Horrendous, Royal Sorrow, Sometime In February, Love Rarely, Vincent Vocoder Voice, EYES, Overhead, The Albatross, palmeras negras, SURE, YOSHIZAWA, Hexcut, The Gorge, Bipolar Architecture, Underdark, God Alone, Thank, Sans Froid, Codespeaker, street grease, and Lemondaze.