MESHUGGAH, THE BLACK QUEEN and more Confirmed for ARCTANGENT 2019 Line-Up

Fresh from winning the Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards, ArcTanGent Festival has announced the first 39 bands for 2019. This announcement follows on from the Saturday night headliner announcement of Swedish progressive metal pioneers, Meshuggah.

Joining them will be Friday night headliners, and Warp Records finest, Battles, while 65daysofstatic will also be playing at the festival.

Check out this crushing live video from Meshuggah to set you up for their August headline set:

Paul Wolinski from the band says: “Most festivals these days feel like being in Children of Men where brand manager shoot bottles of Coke at you from canons then charge you £5 for it and if they catch you smuggling in alcohol they brand you with a poker in the shape of Dave Grohl’s frowning face and Muse are always headlining and there’s like one woman on the bill and it’s probably Hayley Williams and there’s phone charging stations provided by tax-dodging multinationals and zero-hour, underpaid cleaners are bussed in to put trampled plastic into plastic bags overnight so when people wake up the next morning they can pretend it isn’t the end of the world in slow motion. Anyway ArcTanGent is not like most festivals and so instead of filling us with dread we’re really looking forward to coming back. Another world is possible! In the future all festivals will be like ArcTanGent. Or capitalism will destroy us all. One of these two things.”

The full list of bands confirmed so far reads as follows:

Meshuggah
Battles
Cult of Luna
Zeal & Ardor
65daysofstatic
The Black Queen
Daughters
Caspian
The Contortionist
Three Trapped Tigers
The Algorithm
Frontierer
Conjurer
Bossk
The Physics House Band
Møl
GosT
AK
K
Birds in Row
Car Bomb
Azusa
Pijn
Sithu Aye
LLNN
A.A.Williams
Letters From The Colony
Invalids
Standards
Collosal Squid
Aiming for Enrike
Floral
Cattle
Wild Cat Strike
Lost in the Riots
Big Lad
Voronoi
Ogives Big Band
Hexcut
Sugar Horse

ArcTanGent will take place on Fernhill Farm, Compton Martin from 16th to 18th August 2019. For more information, visit the official site here: http://www.arctangent.co.uk.