Desertfest

Desertfest is a British music festival that has been held primarily in Camden Town, London since 2012. The festival also takes place in Berlin (since 2012), Antwerp (since 2014) and New York City (since 2019). Venues used for the London festival involve the Roundhouse, Electric Ballroom, Underworld, KOKO, The Jazz Cafe, Purple Turtle the Black Heart and the Devonshire Arms.

Music genres at Desertfest are predominately stoner rock, doom metal and sludge metal. The festival has hosted the likes of Orange Goblin, Electric Wizard, Eyehategod, Sleep, Hawkwind, Shellac, Integrity, Fu Manchu, Witchcraft, Graveyard, Napalm Death, Weedeater, YOB, Monster Magnet, High on Fire, Amenra, Red Fang, OM, Acid King, The Obsessed, Godflesh, Russian Circles, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, Elder, Truckfighters, Earthless, Kvelertak, Pentagram, Bongzilla and Trouble.

2012

The 2012 Desertfest London event took place from 6 April to 8 April.

Friday 6th April
Underworld	Purple Turtle	Black Heart
Karma to Burn Rotor Ancestors Sons of Alpha Centauri	Orchid Lord Vicar Sigiriya Greenleaf Stone Axe Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Night Stubb Ponamero Sundown	Asteroid Astrohenge Gonga Asteroid (acoustic) Crustal Head (acoustic) Stone Axe (Free Set)

Saturday 7th April
Underworld	Purple Turtle	Black Heart
Orange Goblin Church of Misery Truckfighters Valient Thorr Sungrazer Roadsaw Shrine 69 Zippo	Slabdagger Black Pyramid Herder Dopefight Serpent Venom Iron Witch Spider Kitten Meadows	Grifter Diesel King The Bendal Interlude Alunah Ashes of Iron Steak Deville (acoustic)

Sunday 8th April
Underworld	Purple Turtle	Black Heart
Corrosion of Conformity Black Cobra Zoroaster Gentlemans Pistols Leaf Hound Crystal Head Throne Wiht	Viking Skull Smsara Clues Experiment Iron Claw Cultura Tres Widows Sedulus Dead Existence	Gorilla Undersmile Desert Storm XII Boar Undersmile (acoustic) Death Letter (acoustic) Ellie Matthews

2013

The 2013 Desertfest London event took place from 26 April to 28 April.

Friday 26th April
Underworld	The Jazz Cafe	Black Heart
Fatso Jetson Yawning Man Yawning Sons Mars Red Sky Black Moth	Kadavar Hexvessel Admiral Sir Cloudlseys Shovell Sons of Merrick Groan Crystal Head	Steak Devile Tombstones Trippy Wicked Prosperina Mother Corona Rise of the Simians

Saturday 27th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Unida Dozer Lowrider House of Broken Promises Turbowolf	Ufomammut Wo Fat Pagan Altar Abrahma DYSE Chron Goblin Gurt	Bong Wodensthrone Zoltan Black Magician War Iron Skeleton Gong Angst

Sunday 28th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Pentagram Colour Haze Truckfighters Naam Victor Griffin's In-Graved Glowsun	Bongripper Cough Witch Mountain Belzebong Toner Low Conan Blackstorm Sea Bastard	Planet of Zeus The Shrine Castle Latitudes Humanfly Limb Throne Whoremoan

2014

The 2014 Desertfest took place from 25 April to 27 April.

Friday 25th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Spirit Caravan Ed Mundell Ultra Electric Mega Galatic Sasquatch Monkey3	The Machine Sixty Watt Shaman Borracho The Midnight Ghost Train Swamp Machine	Horisont Zodiac Necro Deathmort The Earls of Mars Death Ape Disco

Saturday 26th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Kvelertak Weedeater Blues Pills ASG Samsara Blues Experiment Anciients	Dragged into Sunlight The Body 11Paranoias Hey Colossus Årabrot Slabdagger	The Cosmic Dead Hotel Wrecking City Traders Ghold Dead Existence Wizard Fight

Sunday 27th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Boris Church of Misery Elder Radio Moscow Lonely Kamel Black Rainbows	Kongh Sourvein Eagle Twin Graves at Sea Grime Pombagira War Wolf Lifer	Grandloom Bright Curse Wolfshead Hull Baron Greenback

2015

The 2015 Desertfest took place from 24 April to 26 April.

Friday 24th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Red Fang Orange Goblin The Atomic Bitchwax Floor	Noothgrush Minsk Black Cobra Agrimonia Dopethrone Walk Through Fire	Gonga Galvano Miava End of Level Boss Iron Walrus Torpor

Saturday 25th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart	Jazz Cafe
Eyehategod Brant Bjork Lo-Pan Black Pyramid The Vintage Caravan	Obake Bong Anthroprophh Shit and Shine Sly and the Family Drone Pale Horse Sex Swing	Hang the Bastard War Drum Mike Williams Ten Foot Wizard Jeremy Irons Bad Guys Don Fernando	Amplifier Sweet Billy Pilgrim iamthemorning Messenger Sumer Landskap

Sunday 26th April
Koko	Underworld	Black Heart	Purple Turtle
Sleep Ufomammut Acid King Karma to Burn My Sleeping Karma	Angel Witch Cancer Quartz Amulet Decrepid Dungeon	SSS Satanic Dystopia Eye of Solitude Wytch Hazel Saille Consecration	The Wounded Kings Order of Israfel Desert Storm XII Boar Moaning Cities

2016

The 2016 Desertfest took place from 29 April to 1 May.

Friday 29th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Corrosion of Conformity Crowbar Asteroid Egypt	Rotor Raging Speedhorn Lionize Planet of Zeus Black Pussy Gurt	JK Flesh The Poisoned Glass Teeth of the Sea Guapo Bonnacons of Doom Lower Slaughter

Saturday 30th April
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Russian Circles Pelican Truckfighters Conan Monomyth	Unearthly Trance Samothrace Monarch Fleshpress Slomatics Counterblast Bong Cauldron	Mantar Crystal Head Sunder Spider Kitten Dusteroid Poseidon

Sunday 1st May
Koko	Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart
Electric Wizard Trouble Elder Monolord	Godflesh Blood Ceremony Oranssi Pazuzu Necro Deathmort Bast Witchsorrow	Wo-Fat Mothership Stinking Lizaveta Siena Root Dyse OHHMS	Mondo Drag Carousel Beastmaker The Moth Sedulus Dog Days

2017

The 2017 Desertfest took place from 28 April to 30 April.

Sunday 1st May
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Slo Burn Lowrider Stoned Jesus 1000mods Pontiak	The Picturebooks Steak Vodun Death Alley The Well Grave Lines	Zombi Terminal Cheesecake Khunnt Bask Bruxa Maria	Apey & the Pea Closet Disco Queen Grand Mammoth Ledfoot

Sunday 1st May
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Turbonegro John Garcia band Black Spiders Satan's Satyrs Avon	Bongzilla Scissorfight Inter Arma Celeste Brume Monolithian	Earth Ship Stubb Backwoods Payback Iron Witch Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Brule Samavayo	Chron Goblin Welcome Back Delta Dead Lettuce Monstertone

Sunday 1st May
Roundhouse	Underworld	Black Heart
Sleep Candlemass Wolves in the Throne Room Saint Vitus Bongzilla	Samsara Blues Experiment Yuri Gagarin Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Wear Your Wounds Elephant Tree Hark	Dead Lord Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters Wucan Mammoth Storm Boss Keloid Venomous Maximous

2018

The 2018 Desertfest took place from 4 May to 6 May.

Friday 4th May
KOKO	Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Graveyard The Obsessed Zeke Planet of Zeus	Napalm Death Eyehategod Warning Winterfylleth Five the Hierophant ADCX	Jex Thoth Radio Moscow Freedom Hawk Black Moth The Black Wizards Old Man Lizard	White Hills Ghold Snapped Ankles Melting Hand Casual Nun Swedish Death Candy	Dopelord Tuskar Lionize Morass of Molasses

Saturday 5th May
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
High on Fire Weedeater Church of Misery Akercocke Sourvein	Steak Black Rainbows Dead Witches Cattie Wino Acoustic Puppy	Miss Lava The Watchers Mastiff Mountains Crumpet Trevor's Head Tom Cameron	Darkher Telepathy Crowd of Chairs Snow Burial The Moth Monolithian

Sunday 6th May
Roundhouse	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Monster Magnet Hawkwind Nebula Elder Monolord	Weedeater Primitive Man Bison Suma Fister Moloch Bismuth	King Buffalo Kind Blackwulf LLNN Chrch PIST	Necromancers Solieme 10 Chief

2019

The 2019 Desertfest took place from 3 May to 5 May

Saturday 5th May
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
OM Wovenhand Grave Miasma HHY & The Macumbas Jaye Jayle	Electric Citizen R.I.P Zig Zags Alastor Blackwater Holylight Vokonis	Skraeckoedlan Blanket One for Sorrow Great Electric Quest High Priestess 1968 The Great Machine	Whoremoan Cities of Mars Orbital Junction Drore

Saturday 5th May
Electric Ballroom	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Amenra Kadavar Stoned Jesus Monkey3 DVNE Elephant Tree	Black Tusk The Skull Acid Cannibals Headless Kross Årabrot Kalloused	We Hunt Buffalo Salem's Bend Zed Psychlona High Fighter Worshipper	Wrong Coilguns Mother's Cake Heads ENOS

Saturday 5th May
Roundhouse	Underworld	Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Fu Manchu All Them Witches Witch Earthless Colour Haze	Mondo Generator Devil & The Almighty Blues The Secret Chve & Syndrome Sabbath Assembly Naxatras Surya	High Reeper Messa Kurokuma Video Nasties Wren Mountain Caller	The Vanguards The Fargo Railroad Co The Southern Companion The Outlaw Orchestra

2022

The 2022 Desertfest London event took place from 29 April to 1 May.

Friday 29th April
The Electric Ballroom	The Underworld	Powerhaus	The Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Witchcraft 1000mods Truckfighters Lowrider Steak Slift	Integrity Petbrick Switchblade Coltsblood Blacklab Blind Monarch	Gnod Hey Colossus Bonnacons of Doom Shooting Daggers Personal Hell	Spirit Adrift Seven Sisters Inhuman Nature Dungeon Aggressive Perfector Gevaudan	Alunah The Brothers Keg Black orchids Dunes The Lunar Effect

Saturday 30 April
The Roundhouse	The Electric Ballroom	The Underworld	The Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Shellac Pissed Jeans Elder Part Chimp Elephant Tree	Orange Goblin Earthless Stöner My Sleeping Karma Slomosa	Greenleaf Hangman's Chair Green Lung Deathrite Konvent King Witch	Josiah Maidavale Grotto Fire Down Below Your Highness Orbital Junction	Gurt Purple Kong A Gazillion Angry Mexicans Old Horn Tooth Lacertilia

Sunday 1 May
The Roundhouse	The Underworld	Powerhaus	The Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Electric Wizard YOB Eyehategod Conan DVNE	Naxatras Sacri Monti Ten Foot Wizard Huntsman* Desert Storm Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children of the Knight Morag Tong	Bongzilla Slabdagger Poseidon A Tribute to Eric Wagner (Trouble Covers) Parish	Opium Lord Tides of Sulfur Human Leather Shrykull Under Remote Viewing	1782 Ritual King Wolftooth Wallowing Grey Brain

[*]= Huntsman pulled out on the day

Corrosion of Conformity, The Obsessed, Wino, Khemmis, Somali Yacht Club, Mos Generator, URNE and Shuck were expected to perform but pulled out due to the COVID-19 pandemic or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

2023

The Desertfest 2023 London will take place from 5 May to 7 May.

Friday 5 May
Electric Ballroom	The Underworld	Powerhaus	The Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Graveyard Kadavar Church of Misery Valley of the Sun Spaceslug Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath Covers)	Discharge Bad Breeding Dawn Ray'd Kurokuma Terror Cosmico	Year of No Light Sum of R Earth Moves Wyatt E. Iron Jinn	Ecstatic Vision Longheads Mr Bison Vinnum Sabbathi GNOB Margarita Witch Cult	Dommengang Untitled with Drums Mountains Troy the band Death Wvrm

Saturday 6 May
Electric Ballroom	The Underworld	Powerhaus	The Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Corrosion of Conformity Crowbar Weedeater Dozer Fatso Jetson	Unsane Slomatics Grave Lines Stake Tuskar Wren	Church of the Cosmic Skull Telekinetic Yeti The Necromancers Deathchant Firebreather	Samavayo Plainride High Desert Queen Our Man in the Bronze Age Trevor's Head Tons	Elder Druid Oreyeon Rosy Finch Lowen Homecoming

Sunday 7 May
The Roundhouse	The Underworld	Powerhaus	The Black Heart	The Devonshire Arms
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats Boris King Buffalo Nebula Blood Ceremony	Desert Jam session with Fatso Jetson and Sean Wheeler of Throw Rag Gaupa Mars Red Sky GNOME Weedpecker Acid Mammoth Great Electric Quest	Big|Brave Jo Quail Zetra Everest Queen Graywave	Celestial Sanctuary Morass of Molasses Warren Schoenbright Venomwolf Bloodswamp Black Groove	Thunder Horse Gandalf the Green Earl of Hell Wall Dvde

Inter Arma, Early Moods and Age of Truth were due to perform but pulled out of the festival. Somali Yacht Club were also due to headline the Underworld stage on the Sunday but pulled out due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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