Damnation Festival reveal first names for 2018’s festival
Damnation Festival have revealed the first bands for this year’s festival!
Year in, year out, Damnation Festival boasts one of the best one day lineups in extreme music and aiming to keep that tradition, the organisers of the one day event have revealed the first names for this year’s festival. Leading the charge in this evening’s announcement is Norwegian metal royalty IHSAHN, and Polish black metal pilgrims BATUSHKA whilst post-metal collective THE OCEAN will return to the festival and Birmingham’s necropunk grind mob FUKPIG will unleash hell for the first time in seven years with a rare live outing.
Speaking about performing at this year’s festival, IHSAHN says, “I’m very excited to be playing the Damnation Festival for the first time! I’ve always had a very strong connection to the UK scene, and always enjoy playing there.” FUKPIG add, “Since 2011 the world has turned to such absolute shit that we can no longer keep quiet. Damnation is the first show we will be playing and it will get all of our fucking anger poured over it.”
Speaking about this year’s event, Festival Director Gavin McInally says, “tickets went on sale this year before a single band was announced and we were stunned by the swell of loyal fans who put their faith in us. It has, however, added extra pressure to deliver, so we’re delighted that the first flavour of the 14th Damnation Festival includes debut and exclusive performances from IHSAHN and BATUSHKA, the return of THE OCEAN and the much-missed chaos of FUKPIG. The next 23 bands to come will feature the best death, grind, doom, sludge, prog and post rock we can possibly get our hands on. Following the resounding success of our two most previous sell outs, capacity will also remain capped at 3,000 to allow easier flow between venues, so we fully expect to hang another Sold Out sign over the door in 2018.”
Damnation Festival takes place at Leeds University Union on November 3rd. Tickets are priced at £43 and are on sale now and can be purchased here.
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