Desertfest London announce 16 bands for 2025

Desertfest London have announced 16 bands for next year’s festival!

Following a blockbuster 2024 that saw a horde of doom, stoner, psych and sludge descend to Camden Town in London, now, the first 16 bands have been announced for next year’s festival!

Leading the charge in the new announcement is avant-garde black metallers ZEAL & ARDOR, ELDER – who headline the Friday night with a full album playthrough of Lore – and post-metallers AMENRA.

Also confirmed for next year’s festival is Ukrainian doom metallers STONED JESUS, heavy blues rockers THE DEVIL & THE ALMIGHTY BLUES, PLANET OF ZEUS, RICKSHAW BILLIE’S BURGER PATROL, JOSIAH, SONS OF ALPHA CENTAURI, VOLCANOVA, SCOTT HEPPIE & THE SUN BAND, BLACK WILLOWS, 10,000 YEARS, BARBARIAN HERMIT, ERRONAUT and BOBBIE DAZZLE.

Speaking about performing at next year’s festival, ELDER frontman/lead guitarist Nick DiSalvo says, “Lore is turning 10 years old. This album marked a point of departure for ELDER upon a path which the band is still walking now. For us, this is the record where the band came into its own as a unique voice in the heavy rock underground. As we approach our second decade as a band, we feel it’s appropriate to look back on this landmark for us and acknowledge it properly, which is why we’re doing a tour performing the entire album along with some other tracks from our earlier catalogue; we’ll give this era of the band a proper celebration before turning our attention once again toward the future and the next album, currently being written.” 

Desertfest London takes place from May 16th – May 18th across Camden, London. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here.

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