Motocultor 2024: the poster is growing

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Discover the new artists on the bill at the Breton metal festival Motocultor, which takes place from August 15 to 18, 2024.

The festival team Motocultor announces new names present at its 2024 edition, which will be held on August 15, 16, 17 and 18, 2024 in Carhaix. The ticketing is open. Go to the official website.

To these names is added a new headliner, Avantasia, metal opera led by Tobias Sammet, with many guests. Old-school British heavy metal is also in the spotlight, with KK’s Priestbringing together several former members of Judas PriestAnd Venom Inc., formed by three former members of Venom. The extreme scene will also be represented, whether French with Kronosor Norwegian with Black Aura. On the periphery of metal, we also find the project Myrkur and the industrial group Horskh.

The French scene is not forgotten, with the unclassifiable avant-garde group IGORRRthe death metal project Karras or even the Bernard Minet metal bandwhich covers the greatest cartoon theme songs of the 80s and 90s in a metal version, with the iconic singer.

If all the names have not yet been revealed, the Motocultor poster is already substantial. Find among the headliners the British metalcore group Architectsas well as’Opeth And Meshuggahtwo Swedish bands who present two diametrically different visions of progressive metal. Clutch, Magma or Millencolin will also be there.

See you on August 15, 16, 17 and 18, 2024 in Carhaix, for this 15th edition of the Motocultivator Open Air. In the meantime, consult our live report of the 2023 edition, present in WECB Weekly n°128, available via our online store.

Here is the breakdown of groups by day:

Thursday August 15

Bob Vylan / Crippled Black Phoenix / DeWolff / Emma Ruth Rundle / Grandma’s Ashes / Kvelertak / Magma / Moundrag / Sacramentum / Shy, Low / Squid / Venom Inc. + 8 groups

Friday August 16

Black Aura / Esthetis / Faun / Haggard / Hexis / Hippotraktor / Incantation / Infected Rain / Inhumate / Karras / KK’s Priest / Left To Die / Lionheart / Liturgy / Myrath / Myrkur / Nova Twins / Opeth / Resolve / Skynd / Slow Fall / Sowulo / The Amity Affliction / Riverside / Wargasm / Widilma + 3 groups

Saturday August 17

Aborted / Architects / Bambie Thug / Bernard Minet Metal Band / Broken by the Scream / Calcine / Crypta / Didier Super / Dirtyphonics / Emmure / Exodus / Igorrr / Jesus Piece / Jinjer / Kalandra / Les Sheriff / LLNN / Lysistrata / Millencolin / Nekrogoblikon / RĂĽyyn / Sorcerer / The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats / Train Fantome / Villagers of Ioannina City + 6 groups

Sunday August 18

After The Burial / Arhios / Avantasia / Baroness / Black Bile / Born of Osiris / Clutch / Duel / DVNE / Exumer / Frail Body / Future Palace / Hirax / Horskh / Kronos / Meshuggah / Monkey3 / My Diligence / Night Verses / Plini / Red Fang / Rotting Christ / Stoned Jesus / The Black Dahlia Murder / The Halo Effect + 5 groups

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