Taking over the Hidden and Music Hall Dundee venues across Friday 18 and Saturday 19 September, the festival promises two days spanning established names and newer bands making waves, with Scottish exclusives, Scottish debuts and Dundee debuts throughout. Early bird tickets are on sale at £15, covering the Friday warm-up at Hidden and the Saturday main event across both stages with no clashes.

Topping this first announcement are London death metal masters De Profundis, returning for a third Hordes X appearance and their first in a decade. Having marked their 20th anniversary in 2025 with a rejuvenated line-up and the EP The Gospel Of Rot, the band step up to a Scottish exclusive headline set. “It’s been a decade since we last played Hordes,” they said. “Four releases later, we’re back and spreading the Gospel of Rot further north than ever before.”

Joining them are Scottish black/folk metal favourites Cnoc An Tursa, back after nearly a decade away, newly signed to Apocalyptic Witchcraft and touring their acclaimed album A Cry For The Slain. Their set marks a Dundee debut. Completing the trio are Northern Ireland’s blackened doom/sludge outfit Owlcrusher, making their first ever Scottish appearance ahead of their second album and promising, in their words, “gut-rupturing low end, subterranean vocal utterances, and an overwhelming sense of disquiet and unease.”

For a festival reaching its 16th edition on the strength of the underground, that’s an exciting opening salvo, and we’d expect plenty more to come.

Hordes X takes place at Hidden and Music Hall Dundee on 18 and 19 September 2026. Early bird tickets are £15.

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Intended as “an intense, close-quarters experience”, Tynebound will be limited strictly to 500 guests and at the time of writing, the event has already reached 50% capacity. This inaugural event is being put together by the team behind the highly successful Fortress Festival and Reaper Agency UK, so looks to be in good, reliable hands.

Venue host Anarchy Brew Co. will also be offering a curated range of limited brews for the event, including a specially commissioned Fortress IPA.

Bands thus far announced as appearing at Tynebound are as follows:

Finnish melodic black metal act Moonlight Sorcery will headline on the Sunday. Czech black metal veterans Inferno, known for their shift from primitive roots to avant-garde, mind-altering compositions will be performing and there’s a rare live appearance from Aristarchos due, alongside Canada’s Conifère who blend black metal with ambient and dungeon synth elements.

Scotland’s Cnoc An Tursa will be performing material from their forthcoming A Cry For The Slain album, blending black metal with evocative Gaelic melodies as tales of banshees, giants, dragons and ancient legends are brought roaring to life. Ireland’s Coscradh, whose Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld binds together bygone causeways, war gods and star-born forces, will also appear.

English avant-black/death metal group Lychgate will perform material from their latest Debemur Morti Productions release, Precipice, bringing a progressive, surrealist sense of dread to events. Solo project Oakenthrone is set to emerge from the damp soil of the underground in a debut that promises the introspective chill of black metal with the mournful grandeur of doom metal, while exploring themes of the divine, the decayed and the deeply human. Showcasing a new lineup and new music, modern UK black metal act The Sun’s Journey Through The Night will be there, stating: “After a long period of silence, The Sun’s Journey Through The Night are incredibly excited to finally journey north once again to perform, with a new line-up, new music and a renewed chaotic energy. Hail No One.”

Making their first ever live performance, Magnetar will present an amalgam of classic and raging extreme metal following the release of their debut album, There Will Be No Peace In My Valley through Vendetta Records. Blood Countess will be bringing their uncompromising devotion to themes centred on the tyranny of Elizabeth Bathory, and their new album, Imperatrix Sanguinis, will have been released by then. The Infernal Sea will also be present, commenting: “In the blink of an eye, ten years have flashed before us. 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of our sophomore album The Great Mortality. During that time, we have encountered a modern-day pandemic, a harrowing situation which only enforced the subject matter of the album. We return to the past for a handful of shows celebrating The Great Mortality, whereby we will perform the album in its entirety. We invite you to join the ritual and herald a new age of darkness and misery. Fear the Black Death, it comes for us all.”

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