Show Notes
Fortress Festival returns bringing worldwide black metal exclusives to the British seaside, with Gallowbraid, Old Man's Child, Dødheimsgard, Misþyrming, A Forest of Stars & more darkening the skies over the 2026 bill.
Releases: Devin Townsend - The Moth Turnover - Down on Earth Static Dress - Injury Episode Sparta - Cut a Silhouette ‘68 - They Are Survived Healing Wound - Bodies of Heavenly Violence Deafkids - Cicatrizes do Futuro All Them Witches - House of Mirrors Elder - Through Zero Monolord - Neverending Godthrymm - Projections Funebrarum - Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence Tyrann - Tyrann Forever Trelldom - …by the Word… Hecate Enthroned - The Corpse of a Titan, a Lament Long Buried Converge - Hum of Hurt Evanescence - Sanctuary Death Cab for Cutie - I Built You a Tower 100 Demons - Embrace the Black Light Guilt Trip - Armour of Angels August Burns Red - Season of Surrender Blood Incantation - All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) A.A. Williams - Solstice Slift - Fantasia Evergrey - Architects of a New Weave Dwarves - Jenkem Voivod - Symphonique Gurt - Survival of the Shittest
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