Damnation Festival have announced 14 new bands for next year’s festival!
Following a blockbuster 2024, which arguably saw the festival put on its strongest outing to date, the expectations for next year’s festival are sky high. Now, the first 14 bands for 2025’s festival, which will be a 20th anniversary celebration, have been announced!
Leading the charge in the new announcement is French synthwave juggernaut PERTURBATOR whilst Swedish thrashers THE HAUNTED, American grind veterans PIG DESTROYER and UK doom legends WARNING (performing 2006’s Watching From A Distance in full) will all perform across the festival weekend next November.
Speaking about performing at next year’s festival, THE HAUNTED share, “we’re proper chuffed to be part of this killer line up at next year’s Damnation! Can’t wait to see you in the pit!” WARNING says, “on the eve of the 20th anniversary of our Watching From A Distance album, we are proud to be invited back to perform at Damnation‘s 20th anniversary, where we will play the album in full, alongside new material. This will be our only UK performance of 2025. We look forward to seeing you at Damnation.”
Also confirmed for next year’s festival is Singaporean grindcore outfit WORMROT (featuring their original line-up), reformed UK hardcore crew STAMPIN’ GROUND, American death metallers BRODEQUIN (who will make their UK debut at the festival), GAEREA, MANTAR, HELLRIPPER, FRAIL BODY, GOST, MERYL STREEK and CRIPPLING ALCOHOLISM.
Speaking about playing at Damnation 2025, STAMPIN’ GROUND share, “we said we wouldn’t, but how could we resist? What better excuse to celebrate 25 years of our Carved From Empty Words album than a joint birthday bash for Damnation‘s 20th? We go back a ways with Damnation, and look forward to blowing the stage doors off the BEC Arena for you!”
WORMROT adds, “the original WORMROT is back. Can’t wait to burn Damnation to the ground.” And HELLRIPPER says, “our last appearance at Damnation in 2021 was one of my favourite shows we’ve played to this date, and it’s a festival you can trust for a good weekend… so I’m delighted we will return, bringing total mayhem and our relentless goat hailing to Manchester!”
On finally making the trip to the UK, BRODEQUIN says, “this performance marks a significant milestone as it will be our debut show in England, and we are deeply honoured to contribute to a festival with such a rich legacy of exceptional bands over the years. The UK has been a profound source of inspiration for us since our inception, making this opportunity to perform at Damnation Festival even more meaningful. We eagerly anticipate sharing a selection of our favorite songs, reconnecting with friends from around the world, and forging new connections with the incredible community this festival brings together.”
Damnation organiser Gavin McInally says, “this is the most exciting opening announcement we’ve ever put together with absolute gems everywhere you look, from PERTURBATOR hosting a main stage rave to MERYL STREEK throwing an Irish punk rally.
We have STAMPIN’ GROUND returning to call for a wall of death the length of BEC Arena, WARNING will play their doom masterpiece Watching From A Distance, THE HAUNTED reuniting with Damnation in the same city they last played the festival.
It will be PIG DESTROYER’s only UK show, and it’ll be carnage. Brutal death metal fans will finally have the chance of see BRODEQUIN without taking a flight to the States and WORMROT will also make their Damnation debut with their original line-up in tow.
GAEREA are one of the most requested black metal bands we’ve seen in recent years, MANTAR are long-overdue their Damnation debut and HELLRIPPER, FRAIL BODY, GOST and CRIPPLING ALCOHOLISM add a further touch of class and diversity to this opening salvo – from the best of blackened thrash to screamo.”
He adds, “but this is genuinely just a flavour of what’s to follow. We sold 1,700 blind and if we can do that again with the bands announced today, we’ll allow our imaginations to run wild for our 20th birthday bash. Instalment tickets can be bought for £5 (plus the full booking fee) and the next payment isn’t due until February.”
Damnation Festival 2025 takes place at BEC Arena, Manchester from 8th November – 9th November 2024. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here.
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