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Atmospheric Black Metal


Fortress Festival are honoured to welcome to the return of Fluisteraars to their line up after their genuine and mind-bending performance inside the Ocean Room back in 2024. Next year the band will take their rightful place inside the Grand Hall with an extended and exclusive 60 minute performance. “The mysticism woven into their region …

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Today the mighty Fortress Festival announced Vespéral, Black Cilice, Atlantean Sword and Gate Master. A claustrophobic ambience and suffocating riffs will wash over the Ocean Room on Saturday as Portuguese raw black metal act, Black Cilice make their Fortress debut. This will be the only show in the UK for the band Known for weaving …

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The first batch of bands have been announced for the 2026 edition of the immense extreme metal festival. Strap yourself in, this is one hell of an announcement Old Mans Child. After many years in hibernation, we welcome the long-awaited return of OLD MAN’S CHILD. The legendary Norwegian black metal band will headline Fortress 2026 …

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So, onto day two and another stacked bill of epic Black and Death Metal, and with the sun beating down I made my way down the infamous slope to the grand Scarborough Spa and into the building just in time to set my stall out in the main room for the onslaught of the brutal …

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So, as we were preparing to flip over the fifth page of the 2025 calendar, it was also time to prepare to bear witness to two days of the most atmospheric, raw and aggressive black arts that we have now become accustomed to witnessing on the North Yorkshire coasts favourite hot spot Scarborough. And while …

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FORTRESS FESTIVAL 2025 Officially SOLD OUT! Among the headliners of the biggest black metal event in the UK will be Agalloch with an exclusive 2025 European show Still to be announced: speakers for Fortress Forum, the festival’s industry side-programme Fortress Festival, the biggest black metal event in the UK, which will take place on 31 …

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Due to high demand a limited amount of day tickets have been released – 50 total per day Over 1,500 weekend tickets have already been sold. Festival expected to sell out soon. Tickets still available via FortressFestival.co.uk/tickets Day tickets and day splits have been released for rising black metal festival Fortress Festival, which will take place on …

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 FORTRESS FESTIVAL reveals complete 2025 line-up and third stage Dödsrit to make their UK debut following last-minute cancellation in 2024 Darkher, Sylvaine & Osi And The Jupiter to perform on new third stage in a candlelit atmospheric escape environment on the Fortress Saturday Only under 300 tickets left via FortressFestival.co.uk/tickets Fortress Festival has revealed further new names …

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KALT || WEISS is an avant-garde black metal project formed in 2018 by Viktor Sohm in Vienna, Austria. Fusing the atmosphere and euphoria of black-gaze with the visceral elements of dissonant black metal. They have released their debut EP – ‘Serotonin’ via KVLTSTICK4000 Records Inspired by bands like Deftones and genre legends Blut aus Nord …

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PURE WRATH: Indonesian Atmospheric Black Metal Project To Release The Forlorn Soldier EP March 6th Via Debemur Morti Productions Indonesian atmospheric/symphonic black metal unit PURE WRATH will unleash The Forlorn Soldier EP March 6th via Debemur Morti Productions. The poignant offering serves as the band’s Debemur Morti debut as well as a teaser to the band’s third full-length. Forged in 2014 in …

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