Pelagic Fest 2026

Name: Pelagic Fest 2026
Start: 2026-08-28T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-28T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Muziekgieterij

took place · 28 Aug 2026

Muziekgieterij, Maastricht

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Pelagic Fest 2026 takes place at Muziekgieterij in Maastricht on 28 August 2026.

About the festival: Pelagic Fest 2026

1 500

Capacity (visitors)

3rd edition (2024, 2025, 2026)

Edition in Maastricht

Acts on the line-up

2009

Founding year Pelagic Records

Good to know

Lasts 2 days: Fri 28 and Sat 29 August 2026
Location: Muziekgieterij, Boschstraat 5, Maastricht
Capacity approx. 1,500 visitors (indoor)
Weekend ticket via Muziekgieterij box office; day tickets also available
No stage clashes: every performance can be attended in full
No camping (indoor city festival)
Train: Maastricht Central within walking distance of Muziekgieterij

What's new

2026-06-10
Slift and Slow Crush are confirmed as the final additions to the line-up; the complete day schedule has been published and day and weekend tickets are now available via Muziekgieterij.
2026-04-05
The Ocean confirms that they will perform at Pelagic Fest 2026 for the first time officially with a completely renewed ensemble, as a preview of the new album Solaris coming in September 2026.
2025-12-12
Pelagic Records announces the first names for Pelagic Fest 2026: The Ocean, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Oh Hiroshima, EF, Lost in Kiev, Spurv and nine other acts.

Line-up

EF
Lost in Kiev
Predatory Void
Abraham
Hanry
Norna
Preyrs

About: The Ocean

For over two decades, Berlin's The Ocean has built a body of work spanning geology, philosophy and crushing post-metal. Their twelfth record, Solaris - inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's Soviet film classic - arrives in autumn 2026 with a freshly assembled lineup.

Peak in the German album charts with Phanerozoic II (2020)

#41

Peak in the German album charts with Phanerozoic I (2018)

233785

Listeners on Last.fm

80.2K

Monthly audience on YouTube Music

What's new

2026-08
The Ocean released the second single 'Belligerence' in August 2026 from the upcoming album Solaris.
2026-06
The Ocean announced a European headliner tour for autumn 2026, with Psychonaut and Hypno5e among others as support.
2026-05
The Ocean unveiled their twelfth studio album Solaris, scheduled for 25 September 2026 via Pelagic Records, and debuted the first single 'Light Pollution'.

Tour

DresdenHamburgBerlin

Tracks

Jurassic | CretaceousMost streamed track on Spotify from Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (2018)

Mesopelagic: Into the UncannyFan favorite from Pelagial (2013), one of the band's most distinctive songs

PreborealLead single from Holocene (2023), the final chord of the paleontological series

Light PollutionFirst single from Solaris (2026), introduces the new lineup

Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | CenozoicAlbum from 2020, peaked at #9 in the German charts

About: The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble is a Dutch collective from Rotterdam that blends jazz, ambient and dark cinematic soundscapes into a genre they call 'darkjazz'. Formed around 2000, the group crafts brooding, atmospheric pieces built on trumpet, double bass and electronic textures - music that feels like a late-night film score.

About: Zatokrev

Zatokrev is a Swiss band from Basel that blends doom metal, sludge and post-metal into a heavy, atmospheric sound. Known for lengthy, intense compositions that balance raw aggression with melodic depth, they occupy a dark corner of the European metal scene somewhere near the territory of Neurosis.

About: The Devil's Trade

The Devil's Trade is the solo project of Hungarian musician Dávid Makó, crafting sparse, dark folk music that draws on neofolk and dark americana. His songs strip everything back to voice and acoustic instrument, creating an intimate and unsettling atmosphere. Albums like 'The Call of the Iron Peak' have earned him a dedicated following across Europe.

About: otay:onii

Performing as otay:onii, Berlin-based Lane Shi weaves Chinese folk sounds, industrial electronics and theatrical installation into a singular live form. As the first-ever artist in Roadburn's three-year residency and with a fresh album on Pelagic Records, she is at a pivotal moment in her career.

3.8K

monthly listeners on Spotify

first artist ever in the three-year Roadburn triennial residency

tracks on latest album Love Is in the Shit (2026)

What's new

2026-05
otay:onii released her fifth solo album *Love Is in the Shit* on May 8, 2026 via Pelagic Records, her debut with that label.
2026-05
Simultaneously with the album release, Lane Shi joined The Ocean, the post-metal band that is the flagship of Pelagic Records.
2026-04
otay:onii was artist in residence at Roadburn Festival in Tilburg for the second year in a row, this time with the commissioned project *Moonstruck Old Tales* - a retelling of Chinese folk songs with a full band.

Tracks

Love Is in the Shitfifth solo album, May 2026 via Pelagic Records

True Faith Ain't Blindfourth solo album, September 2024; performed in full at Roadburn 2025

夢之駭客 Dream Hackeralbum from 2023, rated 7.4 by Pitchfork

MíngMíng 冥冥album from 2021, combines industrial music, Chinese folk and glitch

NAGsolo debut from 2018 on ShadowTrash Tape Group

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