Initially scheduled for January 20, the announcement of the headliner for Fort metal fest 2025 took place this Friday, January 10. It is the legendary death metal group, Loudblast, which is celebrating its 40th career, which will be the final bouquet of a promising edition.
A pioneering group on the French metal scene which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025, Loudblast will headline the next edition of the Fort metal fest, the festival organized by the HMMH association (Haute-Marne metal heads) at Fort du Cognelot on June 14. The last name that remained unknown until Friday January 10, Loudblast will pass through Haute-Marne as part of a concert series for its four decades of death metal performances.
The group from the North of France and led by singer and guitarist, Stéphane Buriez, is therefore a superb offbeat Christmas gift for all fans of metal music and regulars of the Fort metal fest. The revelation of Loudblast as headliner, at midday, completed an already strong field of five names which already gave a taste of a 2025 edition which aims to be a rise in power for the organizing association.
Indeed, it was in the summer of 2024 that the first group, namely Vorhees (death metal) was revealed to the follower of the HMMH association on social networks. Then followed in the fall, the announcements of the arrival of Carcariass (Death metal) and Tentation (Heavy metal 80s). At the end of the year, it was the Toulouse group Les Compagnons du Gras Jambon (medieval folk) and then the Nancy group Warfaith (trash metal) who enriched the programming of the 5th Fort metal fest.
Which has already stimulated the desire of the public, fans of metal, to take their seats for June 14 at Cognelot. A desire even more exacerbated since January 10 with the formalization of Loudblast which is the realization of the wishes expressed during the general assembly of HMMH by its president Eric Goncalves. The latter had indicated his desire “to increase the power of this festival which lives metal and wants to promote this multifaceted musical style”.
By choosing to devote a larger budget to the fees of the six groups who will perform, the organizers wish to give themselves the means to grow, “while preserving the spirit which has driven the association since the beginning”, the Fort metal fest. An event which will have its second edition in 2025 at Fort du Cognelot after having been held for the first three years at Fort de la Pointe de Diamant in Saint-Ciergues.
The program now completely formalized, the HMMH volunteers will continue the preparatory work, essential to the success of an evening where metal music will bring together long-time metalheads, more recent fans but above all enthusiasts of all ages, including including young people, who come to share a good time with recognized groups like Loudblast.
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Medieval folk atmosphere with the Companions of Gras Jambon who will perform for the 5th Fort metal fest. -
Organizers hope that Loudblast’s presence will attract a larger audience than in 2024. 
