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.
