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By BRIAN GIFFIN

FOLLOWING 2022’s epic event, after which total silence seemed to fall, Blacken Open Air is returning “for one last time” in 2025!

The news comes in the wake of a series of cryptic social media postings that began to appear on Friday last week – a link to the festival’s website that featured only a countdown.

Before that, there had been no word on the future of the festival, which was last held in July 2022, headlined by Revocation, Psycroptic and Amyl and the Sniffers.

Today, the announcement was revealed: Blacken Open Air will return  September 19 to 22 September 2025. Ticket pre-sales begin tomorrow November 20 at 9AM.

No further details have yet been revealed except that the festival will showcase one international band’s Australian debut performance and “Australia’s most notorious band” will reunite to appear. Your guess is as good as ours about who that might be!

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Brian Giffin

Author Brian Giffin

Brian Giffin is a metalhead, author, writer and broadcaster from the Blue Mountains in Australia. His life was changed forever after seeing a TV ad for 'The Number of the Beast' in 1982. During the 90s he wrote columns and reviews for Sydney publications On the Street, Rebel Razor, Loudmouth and Utopia Records' magazine. He was the creator and editor of the zine LOUD! which ran from 1996 until 2008, and of Loud Online that lasted from 2010 until 2023 when it unexpectedly spontaneously combusted into virtual ashes. His weekly community radio show The Annex has been going since 2003 on rbm.org.au. He enjoys heavy rock and most kinds of metal (except maybe symphonic power metal), whisk(e)y and beer.

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