Fortress Festival announce four new bands

September 24, 2024 James Weaver

Four new bands have been announced for next year’s Fortress Festival!

Following this month’s earlier announcement, which saw stage headliners 1349 and AFSKY confirmed, now, the final four bands have been announced for next year’s black metal festival in Scarborough.

Leading the charge in the final announcement is UK atmospheric black metallers FEN, who will perform their 2009 debut album The Malediction Fields in full, and Slovak post-black metal/ambient project AUTUMN NOSTALGIE will make their UK debut in an exclusive appearance with a full playthrough of 2020’s Esse Est Percipi.

Also confirmed for next year’s festival is atmospheric UK black metallers CRIMSON THRONE, in a UK exclusive show, whilst emerging UK black metallers NEMOROUS (formed from the ashes of WODENSTHRONE) will present their yet-unreleased and unannounced debut album at the festival.

Speaking about performing at next year’s festival, FEN says, “The Malediction Fields era was an incredible time for us. We were feeling our way through the genesis of the band, defining our sound and very much doing things on our own terms. It was an exciting period of discovery, experimenting with ideas, textures and ambience as we observed the post-black metal sound and ‘blackgaze’ scenes emerge around us. What better place to celebrate our history and perform that album in full than at Fortress Festival? An event almost tailor-made for the atmospheric, reflective-yet-furious ambiences we were looking to create. To do so with AGALLOCH as headliners – one of the first bands we ever played with and an act who showed us so much support and encouragement – just underlines how beautifully fate has decreed that this must happen! Until then – keep it bleak and cometh the hour, we will then bring the bleakness…”