Pelagic Fest 26 Saturday

Name: Pelagic Fest 26 Saturday
Start: 2026-08-29T13:40:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-30T00:35:00+02:00
Location: Muziekgieterij

took place · 29 Aug 2026

Muziekgieterij, Maastricht

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

The Ocean performs with a completely renewed ensemble in their first official show in this lineup. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble is also on the bill. Three full album performances have been announced: 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 - all artists from the Pelagic Records label. More names, the day schedule and practical information will follow later.

About the festival: Pelagic Fest 26 Saturday

1.520

Capacity Muziekgieterij

3rd edition in Maastricht

Edition

17+

Acts on the program (total weekend)

Founded 2009

Pelagic Records

Good to know

Saturday 29 August 2026, starting at 13:40
Location: Muziekgieterij, Boschstraat 5, Maastricht
Hall capacity: 1,520 people
Hard ticket via Pelagic Records webshop: € 25,-
Day and weekend tickets also available at Muziekgieterij box office
Two halls (Big Room and Small Room) plus foyer
No camping - indoor city festival
Accessible from Cologne, Antwerp and Brussels in less than one hour

What's new

2026-06-10
Slift and Slow Crush have been added as final names; the complete schedule for both days has been announced.
2026-06-10
Weekend and day tickets have officially gone on sale via the Muziekgieterij box office.
2026-06
The Ocean performed a secret satellite concert in Morocco ahead of the festival with the new lineup and will give their first European performance of the year in Maastricht.
2025-12-12
Pelagic Records announced the first batch of names: The Ocean, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, EF, Lost in Kiev, Spurv and seven debut 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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