Damnation 2027: Zeal & Ardor, Black Breath and Bell Witch
The Manchester extreme music festival’s opening wave brings a rare return and a full-album performance to its two-day programme.

The editorial pick
The California festival returns across two April weekends with the same headline programme; general pass sales open at noon PT on 13 November.
Read the story01What matters now
The Manchester extreme music festival’s opening wave brings a rare return and a full-album performance to its two-day programme.
The four-day Lucerne series connects piano, cello, guitar, voice and contemporary orchestra; ticket sales open on 24 November.
The eight-day Swedish festival’s viewers selected a German feature and an American short as their 2026 favourites.

The Budapest festival’s opening wave spans genres and days. The five-day pass price and handling fee are public, while the full programme is still to come.
02FestivalTV / ON AIR
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Open channelScheduled video selections in their original players. Archive footage is not a live event broadcast.
03Beyond the stage

Rockstar Games and PlayStation will stage Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival across two Mana Wynwood stages on 21 November; the presale lottery closes on 10 November.

Taliesin Black-Brown's 15-minute US film Listen won the CAD 5,000 Grand Prize at the 2026 Banff Mountain Film Competition, where ten categories shared CAD 30,000 in awards.
04Closer to home
31 DecBudapest / Hungary
Weekend Event / HELLO 2027 – hivatalos sajtókép · Original source
10 Aug – 14 AugBudapest / Hungary
Sylwia Sarama / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · Sum 41's audience at Sziget, 2016. Archive festival photograph. · Original source
05Further afield
Galway / Írország
Marrákes / Marokkó
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