Damnation Festival completes line-up
By Tom on Sep 5, 2011 | In Features
This year's Terrorizer-sponsored Damnation Festival has put the finishing touches to it's bill.
Joining the Devin Townsend Project, Ulver, Decapitated and company will be none other than those ultra metal Swedes Grand Magus, along with a selection of the finest the British metal underground has to offer.
These are Scottish uber brutalists Cerebral Bore, Liverpudlian doomsters Conan, experimental black metallers A Forest Of Stars and Leeds local noise brigade Humanfly, atmospheric post-rockers Talons and the progressive impact of Illuminatus.
Tickets are available through the Damnation website via Ticketscript, SeeTickets, Ticketline and Leedstickets.
Damnation director Gavin McInally has emphasised that, if the festival is to continue, fan support is essential:
"It's fantastic to be able to round off what we consider to be the best line-up Damnation Festival has ever put together with a highly sought after Grand Magus performance and a pick of the finest underground bands the UK has to offer, across a spectrum of genres.
"With Devin Townsend, Godflesh, exclusive performances by Ulver and Decapitated, not to mention the likes of God Is An Astronaut, Evile, Doom, Amplifier, Chthonic, Turisas and rare and one-off prospects of Dragged Into Sunlight and Paul Catten performing Medulla Nocte, it's a mystery - to us at least - that £29 tickets haven't been ripped out of the stores in scenes that would put London to shame.
"In seven years, we've never tried to pull the wool over fans' eyes with regards to ticket sales and this year is no different. The festival will go ahead for certain but if the required support isn't out there to back this line-up, it's going to be a struggle, if not impossible to host Damnation Festival 2012.
"I appreciate not everyone has a spare £29 in their bank account, Leeds can be a trek for some people or simply the line-up isn't doing it for all fans but if even a fraction of those who have vowed to buy tickets or claimed they'd crawl through broken glass to Leeds if any of their favourite aforementioned acts were confirmed, actually did follow through and buy a ticket, we'd be planning a fourth stage by this point."
"However, we hope that with the line-up now complete, the summer festival season now over and the prospect of one last metal shindig before the miserable winter sets in, fans will continue to show the unbelievable support we've received in the past seven years and make this year another resounding success."
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