Damnation Festival announce ten new bands

January 15, 2024 James Weaver

Damnation Festival have announced the first ten bands for this year’s festival!

Following a blockbuster 2023, which saw some of the finest bands in extreme music descend to Manchester (for both the main event and A Night Of Salvation pre-show), now, the first ten bands have been announced for 2024’s festival!

Leading the charge in the new announcement is BLEEDING THROUGH, who will perform 2003’s This Is Love, This Is Murderous in its entirety whilst powerviolence outfit NAILS will perform in an exclusive appearance at Damnation 2024.

Also confirmed to perform at this year’s festival is post-metallers RUSSIAN CIRCLES, death metallers GATECREEPER, THE RUINS OF BEVERAST, CELESTE, AHAB, DOOL, HEXIS and GILLIAN CARTER.

Speaking about performing at this year’s festival, BLEEDING THROUGH says, “the UK has always been a special place for BLEEDING THROUGH. When we released This Is Love, This Is Murderous the UK treated us as one of their own and we felt the love from our UK fans more than anyone else. The connection that we formed with them really helped drive us as and become the band that we are today. We owe the UK so much and we are stoked to go back and share our music with our incredible fans.”

On making their Damnation debut, German black metallers, THE RUINS OF BEVERAST says, “our visits in the UK may have been less in number, but all the more intense. That’s why we’re stoked to invade Manchester and appear at 2024’s edition of venerable Damnation Festival!” GILLIAN CARTER says, “we’re super stoked and honoured to announce our debut UK show to be at the legendary Damnation!”

Damnation organiser Gavin McInally says, “with 1,400 tickets sold before we’d even announced a band, the pressure was on to repay that faith. Landing not only the return of BLEEDING THROUGH, but an exclusive play through of This Is Love, This Is Murderous was an unbelievable coup, and then to bag NAILS‘ only UK show on top, is a carnage combo that will need to be survived.

Will Love Lost in a Hail of Gunfire or You Will Never Be One of Us be the soundtrack to BEC Arena being split in two, or will GATECREEPER have something to say about that as they reach for the top of the death metal pile? RUSSIAN CIRCLES has been a long time coming while the incredible RUINS OF BEVERAST, DOOL and HEXIS also make Damnation debuts while fan favourites CELESTE and AHAB make their returns. We’ve fallen in love lately with introducing incredible bands to the UK, be it WE LOST THE SEA, FRAYLE or DEADGUY and this year we’re very proud to have GILLIAN CARTER finally cross the Atlantic and become a new favourite for many fans.”