GHOSTFEST 2025 Announces Final Wave Of Bands For Its Returning Edition

Legendary Leeds-based festival GHOSTFEST has announced the final line-up of bands for its returning 2025 edition. The metropolitan festival, taking place at the Leeds University Union on Saturday, 21st June 2025, is returning ten years following its last edition in 2015. Joining the already-colossal line-up we have:

• Recently reunited Liverpool metalcore champions God Complex
• Midlands deathcore veterans Martyr Defiled, performing their last ever show
• Cambridge death metal rising stars Celestial Sanctuary
• UK hardcore mainstays Last Wishes and Street Soldier
• Lastly, London-based new-school hardcore forerunners False Reality.

The new additions join the ranks of Humanity’s Last Breath (UK exclusive), Signs Of The Swarm (UK exclusive) Ingested, Heart Of A Coward, Desolated, TRC (Northern exclusive) and many more, making for one of the most exciting line-ups of the 2025 festival season. You can view the final line-up poster for this year’s edition below.

GHOSTFEST‘s 2025 edition and long-awaited return also serves as its 20th anniversary edition, with the festival having platformed many artists, both up-and-coming and already legendary, over its original run from 2005-2015.

Tickets for the festival are on sale now, with the festival’s early bird tickets having sold out in just four minutes. With a killer line-up of equal measure fresh blood, mainstays and huge reunions, the return of GHOSTFEST for its 20th anniversary is looking to be bigger and better than ever. You can find tickets for the event HERE.

FULL LINE-UP

Ingested — Signs Of The Swarm (UK Exclusive)
Humanity’s Last Breath (UK Exclusive) — Desolated
 Martyr Defiled (final show) — Party Cannon — God Complex
Heart Of A Coward — Landscapes (Reunion Show)
TRC (Northern Exclusive) — Filth — Celestial Sanctuary
Last Wishes — Pintglass —  Street Soldier
False Reality — Demoraliser (Reunion Show) —  Veiled

EVENT INFO

GHOSTFEST 2025 will take place on Saturday, 21st June 2025 at the Leeds University Union. The doors will open at 12pm.

You can find more information about the venue and the event on their site HERE.

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