A mere half-week remains before Barcelona is to host the triumphant return of the sweet, heavy and blissful sounds of AMFest.

Maybeshewill return with a dark slab of ecological angst, No Feeling is Final shows a band with passion, rage, and even glimmers of hope.

“My throat is sore from shouting love” – Magda Wrzeszcz gives an intensely personal report back from Maybeshewill’s emotional farewell show at Koko in London last week.

Maybeshewill with You Slut! Koko, London, 15.04.2016 Photos by Magda Wrzeszcz

“Thank you, Maybeshewill, for one of the best gigs ever. Thank you for just having been around for all those years. Thanks, even, for those less-than-awesome gigs, because they were still better than many of your peers could manage. Thank you, and goodbye.” – By Bruce Cowie

Our metal editor Sander van den Driesche gives shares his thoughts on this year’s Damnation Festival, which has one of the most exciting line-ups in the festival’s history.

ArcTanGent 2015: Friday – Arc highlights: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, Body Hound, OHHMS, That Fucking Tank, Maybeshewill, The Fall Of Troy ArcTanGent Festival 2015 Photos by Magda Wrzeszcz and Ed Sprake

Waking Aida have a new album on the cards – Full Heal – which has been produced by Jamie from Maybeshewill and is coming out on Robot Needs Home Recordings on 25th September. We took some time out at this year’s ArcTangent Festival to talk to both bands. By Hannah Morgan

According to the sign at the gate there are no drugs at ArcTanGent. That being said, I am about to disclose a whirlwind of ineffably spectacular and ebullient events the likes of which will entice you to said festival with a narcotic fervour. I came to ArcTanGent as the blank canvas of this writing body and left a part of a greater work. Here I met the team of some of the most delightful misfits you will ever come across, here I found a place where I felt comfortable in my own skin. By Chad Murray

For the first installment of today’s ArcTanGent takeover, John from Maybeshewill had a chat with Goc and James from the ATG Crew about the realities of running a festival, the ideals behind ArcTanGent, and plans for the future (ATG USA, anyone?!)

Dunk!festival Saturday: Amenra, Maybeshewill, Sixth Minor, Year Of No Light, Innerwoud, Labirinto, The End Of The Ocean, Ornaments, Astralia, Ilydaen Dunk!festival 2015, Zottegem, Belgium Photos by Magda Wrzeszcz Ilydaen @ dnk15 Ilydaen @ dnk15 Ilydaen …

Maybeshewill ‘Fair Youth’ album launch The Garage, London, 17.10.2014 Photos by Magda Wrzeszcz

ArcTanGent 2014: Yohkai Stage Highlights ArcTanGent Festival 2014 Yohkai stage highlights: Nordic Giants, Three Trapped Tigers, The Physics House Band, Enemies, Tera Melos, Maybeshewill, Astrohenge, Charlie Barnes, Year Of No Light Photos by Magda Wrze …

I completely understand that every band has to evolve, their sound has to change, but it was the roughness that made me fall in love with their sound and that roughness is gone. By Magda Wrzeszcz

Such was the success of last year’s event that I’ve spoken to numerous people since who have told me it’s a festival their friends have been going to “for years”. Already firmly ensconced in the annals of post/math-rock history, ArcTanGent 2014 has a line-up that will knock your socks off.

“The ethos is that it’s a ‘curated’ event put together by people that really give a fuck about what they’re doing. We put pop-up stages in weird places like libraries and historic buildings; it’s got some real personality which I think comes across.” John Helps of Maybeshewill talks to us about Leicester’s Handmade Festival and what being an event curator actually entails.

What made the night perfect – apart from spotless organisation courtesy of Group Therapy – was the fact that all of the bands gave the audience something to look forward to in the new year – from fully announced Calla’s ‘Navigator’ due in Spring via Rumour Cubes working titles and album recording well under way, to Flies Are Spies’ yet unnamed tracks. – by Magda Wrzeszcz

Throughout the weekend, we passed around a notebook to our friends, fellow bloggers, musicians & total strangers with the simple instruction “write what you like!” Below you can see the results in all their illegible glory.

So, that was ArcTangent then? For the last 2 weeks or so I’ve been trying to put pen to paper to in some way describe what the festival was like and I’ve been coming up blank, but deadlines are looming so I’m just going to throw some words down & see what sticks. Unbelievable. Incredible. Exhilarating. Joyous. Celebratory. Life changing. By Dan Salter

Fuller reviews and more photos are still to come, but in the meantime check out our Thursday highlights! Scroll over the image with your mouse and see what you can find 🙂