Pelagic Fest 26 Friday

Name: Pelagic Fest 26 Friday
Start: 2026-08-28T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-29T01:40:00+02:00
Location: Muziekgieterij

took place · 28 Aug 2026

Muziekgieterij, Maastricht

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Pelagic Fest returns to Maastricht on 28 and 29 August 2026, with the first acts confirmed.

The Ocean performs with a completely renewed ensemble - this will be their first official show in this new line-up. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble is also on the bill. Three full album performances are planned: EF plays Give Me Beauty… Or Give Me Death!, Lost in Kiev presents We're All Going to Be Fine, and Spurv performs Kelolågen.

The line-up is further completed by Predatory Void, Abraham, Zatokrev, The Devil's Trade, Hanry, Norna, Otay:Onii and Preyrs. More names, the day schedule and practical information will follow later.

About the festival: Pelagic Fest 26 Friday

1 520

Capacity Muziekgieterij

3rd edition in Maastricht

Edition

18+

Artists on the line-up

2009

Founding year Pelagic Records

Good to know

2 days: Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August 2026
Day ticket (hard ticket) from € 25,-
Indoor festival, no camping
Walking distance from the city center (Market → Boschstraat)
Less than 1 hour from Cologne, Antwerp and Brussels
Capacity: 1,520 visitors
Tickets non-refundable

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.
2026-06-10
Day and weekend tickets are officially on sale via the box office of the Muziekgieterij.
2026-06-02
The Ocean returns with a completely renewed ensemble and brings new material from the upcoming album Solaris, scheduled for September 2026.
2025-12-12
Pelagic Records announced the first names for the 2026 edition, featuring The Ocean, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, EF, Spurv and Lost in Kiev.

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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