Damnation Festival announce Dragged Into Sunlight

May 13, 2024 James Weaver

Damnation Festival have announced a special performance for this year’s festival!

Following March’s announcement, which saw the likes of NE OBLIVISCARIS, ENFORCED and PIJN announced, now, the organisers behind the metal festival in Manchester have announced a very special performance for this year’s festival!

Legendary UK extreme metal band DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT will perform 2009’s Hatred For Mankind in its entirety in an exclusive set at this year’s festival, closing out the Holy Goat Brewing Stage.

Speaking about performing at this year’s festival, the band says, “DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT has a long standing history with Damnation and we look forward to putting the floor through while closing the second arena, five years to the day of our last show. This is the ONLY time we will perform Hatred For Mankind in full in 2024, for its 15th anniversary. The real horror begins.”

Festival organiser, Gavin McInally, adds, “Damnation is tailor-made for certain moments; the return of CARCASS in 2008, BOLT THROWER‘s only UK festival appearance in 2014, JULIE CHRISTMAS and CULT OF LUNA‘s rare performance of Mariner in 2016. DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT not only returning to the stage, but performing their classic Hatred For Mankind record, in full, and exclusively at Damnation is going to be one for the extreme metal history books. Heavier than the death of a pet, darker than a Black Mirror script and as comfortable as drowning. Witness it.”