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ArcTanGent Festival 2024 details

Posted by Loren on January 27, 2024

ArcTanGent Festival 2024 details
ArcTanGent Festival 2024 details

UK based ArcTanGent Festival returns August 14-17, 2024, celebrating its tenth anniversary.

The lineup will continue to be announced in coming months, but acts this year include Mogwai, Amenra, Explosions in the Sky, Caspian, Meshuggah, and more.

Tickets are on sale.

The current announced ArcTanGent Festival 2024 line up is below (in FULL) :

WEDNESDAY 14th  
And So I Watch You From Afar (fan voted set) / Bossk 
Cobra the Impaler / Curse These Metal Hands / Din of Celestial Birds / Hidden Mothers / Host Body / LLNN / Psychonaut  

THURSDAY 15th  
Explosions in the Sky / Clown Core 
Amenra / Red Fang / Julie Christmas / Textures / Conan / Bo Ningen 
AVKRVST / Cats and Cats and Cats / Doodsekader / Earthside / Filth is Eternal / Healthyliving / Hundred Year Old Man / John Cxnnor / Kalandra / Kaonashi / Kulk / Maebe / Oddism / Pleiades / Skemer / Squid Pisser / Sun Spot / Tokky Horror / Underdark / Wyatt E. 
  
FRIDAY 16th  
Meshuggah / Animals As Leaders 
Plini / Ihsahn / Three Trapped Tigers / Delta Sleep / Show Me The Body / Night Verses / Sigh / Author & Punisher / Year of no Light 
AK/DK / Asymetric Universe / Bipolar Architecture / BLACKSHAPE / Every Hell / Fange / Frail Body / Glassing / Iress / Komfortrauschen / Love Sex Machine / Madmess / Maruja / Modern Technology / Outrun The Sunlight / Sang Froid / Shy, Low / The Sun's Journey Through The Night / Torpor / Yomi Ship / Zetra  
 
SATURDAY 17th  
Mogwai / Electric Wizard 
And So I Watch You From Afar / Caspian / Slift / Brontide / Bossk / Hexvessel / KEN Mode / Earthtone9 
Anta / Ànteros / Briqueville / Cassus / Codex Serafini / Colossal Squid / Gallops / HAAL / Haus Horo / Iskandr / Nadir / Peach / The Psychotic Monks / Quade / Sâver / Sum Of R / Sunnata / Vower / WuW    

ArcTanGent Festival 2024 details
ArcTanGent Festival 2024 details

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