1349 to headline the Fortress Festival in the UK

Norwegian black metallers 1349 and Danish one-man project Afsky have been revealed as the next band confirmations for the 2025 edition of Fortress Festival. 

1349 will headline the main stage on Saturday, 31 May 2025, following the release of their eighth studio album “The Wolf And The King” on 4 October 2024 via Season Of Mist. The band was formed in 1997 by Ravn, who recruited bassist Seidemann and now-former guitarist Tjalve to help him pursue the vision of recapturing the original spirit of black metal. The longstanding lineup of Ravn, Seidemann, guitarist Archaon and drummer Frost (also of Satyricon) has been in place since 2001 and will bring their trademark crushing black metal to Fortress Festival. 

Afsky will bring his melancholic and depressive Danish black metal to the Scarborough shore with the live band on the Fortress Festival main stage. The band was set up in 2015 by Ole Pedersen Luk and has three albums under his belt, with the latest “Om hundrede år” released in 2023 by Vendetta Records enchanting black metal fans all around the world.

Fortress Festival will take place on the weekend of 31 May – 1 June 2025 at Scarborough Spa. Standard weekend tickets are on sale: https://www.fortressfestival.co.uk/tickets

1349 and Afsky join Agalloch, Ulcerate, Forteresse, RUÏM, Moonlight Sorcery, The Great Old Ones, Spirit Possession, Perchta, Belore, Akhlys, Grift, Selbst, Perennial Isolation, Aquilus, Suldusk, Abduction and Devastator for what is promising to be another extraordinary weekend for black metal fans. 

Agalloch will perform a 2025 European exclusive headlining show; their first in the UK since the band’s reformation and the first in the UK since 2015. New Zealand unorthodox death metallers Ulcerate will perform a UK exclusive set following their recently released “Cutting the Throat of God”. RUÏM – with iconic former Mayhem guitarist and Vltimas founder, Blasphemer – will perform a UK debut and exclusive show. Forteresse will perform a UK-exclusive show at Fortress, returning to the stage following a seven-year and ice-cold slumber. Moonlight Sorcery comes to Fortress with an international exclusive set, a UK and international debut and the only show outside of Finland until at least 2026. 

The Great Old Ones and Spirit Possession will perform UK exclusive shows, while it will be a UK debut and exclusive show for both Perchta and Belore. South American project Selbst will bring its music to a UK stage for the very first time with a UK debut and exclusive set, while Akhlys will perform a 2025 UK exclusive set. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its debut album “Syner”, Grift will perform the album in full with a UK-exclusive set. Perennial Isolation will perform its iconic 2021 album “Portraits” in full in what will be a UK debut and exclusive performance from the Barcelona-based atmospheric black metal band. Australian acts Suldusk and Aquilus will perform their UK debuts with exclusive shows. Abduction, the UK black metal band, will return to Fortress and perform an exclusive full album set of their yet-unreleased fifth album. Devastator also return to Fortress Festival with its fist-pumping blackened thrash following the band’s appearance at the event’s inaugural edition in 2023

Early bird tickets have sold out quickly following the Agalloch announcement but standard weekend tickets are still available.

Get your tickets now: https://www.fortressfestival.co.uk/tickets