Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 4 (Saturday 16th August)

Another dawn breaks. The compounding festival hangovers are starting to take their toll inside tents like personal saunas. One more day to go, and what a day it is. Carpe Diem. Coffee ingested and life choices questioned, I make it to the PX3 stage as the “2 Promoters, 1 Pod” live podcast wraps up their … Continue reading Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 4 (Saturday 16th August)

Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 3 (Friday 15th August)

Ithaca’s final show taking place at ArcTanGent is hugely appropriate. The UK metalcore band took a huge leap forward with the release of 2022’s They Fear Us which catapulted the band onto bigger platforms. Deciding to take a step away from the stage for personal life-balance is a huge decision for any band, particularly hard … Continue reading Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 3 (Friday 15th August)

Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 2 (Thursday 14th August)

Thursday is cooking. It’s impossible to sleep off last night’s indulgence easily with the fierce sun rising early to punish the tent dwellers of Fernhill Farm. Only one solution, right? Damn right. Codespeaker are a band I know better than many. This marks the first time the 5-piece post-metal band have crossed the barrier and … Continue reading Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 2 (Thursday 14th August)

Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 1 (Wednesday 13th August)

ArcTanGent is one of the best festivals in the UK, if not the best, for a number of reasons. From what started as a small math-rock festival it is now perhaps the front-running celebration of all types of progressive and experimental heavy music in the country, boasting over 100 bands across 4 days of live … Continue reading Festival Review: ArcTanGent 2025 – Day 1 (Wednesday 13th August)