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Damnation Festival announces three more bands

Damnation Festival have confirmed another three bands for this year’s festival!

After cancelling their appearance at last year’s festival, NAILS have been announced for this year’s festival to make their long awaited debut. Speaking about the announcement, the band says, “we want to extend deep gratitude, respect, and love to all our fans in the UK.  We know we did you dirty last November when we cancelled our tour and we really want to say ‘thank you’ for sticking with us, particularly the Damnation Festival in Leeds. We are finally coming. Airfare has been purchased, transportation has been sorted, and are we are going to be ready to sweat it out with all the maniacs who are attending Damnation Festival! Thanks to everyone involved at Damnation Festival for having us and helping us make sure we deliver the best NAILS UK show to date. NAILS believes that anybody reading this can agree when we say some of the most timeless musical recordings originated in the UK. We eagerly await November to finally be together with our people across the Atlantic. Damnation awaits us all!”

Also confirmed in this evening’s announcement is Australian death metallers DISENTOMB and emerging UK post-metallers WREN. The full list of bands confirmed so far are as follows:

  • BLOODBATH
  • SODOM
  • PARADISE LOST
  • MYRKUR
  • PALLBEARER
  • AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED
  • AGENT FRESCO
  • BEYOND CREATION
  • PSYCROPTIC
  • LEPROUS
  • PG. LOST
  • DYING FETUS
  • WARNING
  • NORDIC GIANTS
  • NAILS
  • DISENTOMB
  • WREN

Damnation Festival 2017 - June

Damnation Festival 2017 takes place at Leeds University Union on November 4, 2017. Tickets are priced at £40 and can be purchased here.

For more information on the festival like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.

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