Complexity Fest announces its next wave of bands for the 2018 iteration of the festival, its third year.
Expanding to two days, on 23rd and 24th of February 2018, the Dutch festival (located at Patronaat, Haarlem) continues to grow. Focusing on the complex, experimental, progressive and adventurous side of heavy music, Complexity Fest 2018 boasts a stirring and impressively international line-up.
The following new acts have been announced: tech-death heavyweights The Faceless, Norwegian blackened avant-garde veterans DØDHEIMSGARD, instrumental progressive favourite Sithu Aye, German prog/math metal band The Hirsch Effekt, instrumental ambient trio Toska, Danish extreme brutes Cabal, Belgians Barst, Portuguese technical deathcore group The Voynich Code, experimental electronic mavericks Knalpot, French math/metalcore quartet The Dali Thundering Concept, Helium Horse Fly, and Dutch metal favourites Chiraw.
They join SikTh, Carnifex, and more. Full list:
Friday 23rd of February (18:00-00:00):
CARNIFEX
JOHN FRUM
OCEANO
AVERSIONS CROWN
DODECAHEDRON
DISENTOMB
ULSECT
THE DALI THUNDERING CONCEPT
Tickets €20: www.ticketmaster.nl/event/complexity-fest-2018-friday-tickets/207233
Saturday 24th of February (12:00-04:00):
SIKTH
THE FACELESS
BLANCK MASS
DODHEIMSGARD
VOLA
THREE TRAPPED TIGERS
SITHU AYE
EMPLOYED TO SERVE
GOD MOTHER
THE HIRSCH EFFEKT
TOSKA
CABAL
KNALPOT
POIL
BARST
THE VOYNICH CODE
HELIUM HORSE FLY
CHIRAW
Tickets €35: www.ticketmaster.nl/event/complexity-fest-2018-saturday-tickets/207235
Day tickets are now available, for €20 for Friday and €35 for the Saturday.
First phase weekend tickets have sold out; second phase tickets (€45) are available here: http://bit.ly/2xI2cWF
The announcement follows a highly successful second year for Complexity in 2017, which led to Kerrang Magazine stating:
‘They’ve really upped their game, with a line-up of rising stars and heavyweights that go way beyond your average run-of-the-mill Meshuggah worship.’
In 2018 Complexity will consist of a Friday evening (18:00-02:00) and full Saturday (12:00-04:00).
Info and tickets: www.patronaat.nl
Held in the three-hall venue of Patronaat in the beautiful city of Haarlem (only 20km from Amsterdam), Complexity Fest looks set to continue making its mark on the European progressive metal live scene.