Desertfest London returns to Camden Town from 21 to 23 May 2027 and has named the Melvins its first headliner. Formed in Montesano, Washington in 1983, they are at the point where a festival announcement stops explaining who they are.
Monolord come back after their 2024 Ballroom set, Mantar bring the German duo's blackened death-punk, and Inter Arma mark twenty years of doing what the festival calls dissonant doom. They are not the only twentieth on the bill: Desert Storm, from Oxford, reach the same number.
Montreal's Dopethrone and the Seattle duo Year of the Cobra are also confirmed, the latter back at Desertfest for the first time in eight years. The rest of the first announcement runs The Grudge, Modder, Kanaan, Omo and Row of Ashes.