Ahab announced as UK exclusive headliners of Abyssal Festival 2026

Abyssal Festival has announced another wave of its 2026 line-up, with Ahab confirmed to be headlining as a UK exclusive.

The festival, which celebrates the heaviest, weirdest and wildest the stoner/doom underground has to offer, returns to Southampton’s Papillon on September 26. Alongside Ahab bringing their "nautik funeral doom" to the south coast, the latest line-up also boasts the additions of Codespeaker, Noisepicker, Battalions and Boa Resa.

They join previously announced acts Witchsorrow, Five The Hierophant, Psychlona, Moloch and Grim Harvest.

Tickets are still available for this year’s event - after all, who said festival season has to end when summer does?

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