All Points East and Outbreak Fest announce DEFTONES will be joined by special guest INTERPOL, as well as AFI, SALEM, MANNEQUIN PUSSY, BLAWAN (live) and ECCA VANDAL. Previously announced acts include IDLES, AMYL & THE SNIFFERS, ESDEEKID, JPEGMAFIA, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, BASEMENT, WISP, DEAFHEAVEN and SHOW ME THE BODY, with more to be added.
Multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Sacramento band DEFTONES are set to headline the event following a stellar 2025 that saw them release their tenth studio album, private music, as well as a sold-out global arena tour. Now on their EU & UK tour, the Deftones renaissance is in full swing, with The Guardian describing them as “alt-metal veterans” , giving them a glowing 5 stars!
Special guest INTERPOL first began in New York in 1997, when guitarist Daniel Kessler recruited bassist Carlos Dengler and singer/guitarist Paul Banks to form a band. In 2002, with Sam Fogarino on drums, the band signed to Matador Records and released Turn On The Bright Lights which made it to 10th position on NME’s list of 2002’s top releases and Pitchfork named it the year’s #1 album. Over the next decade and a half, Interpol would go on to wide critical and commercial acclaim, with five subsequent high-charting records on the Billboard 200.
Hailing from Ukiah, California, the members of AFI (A Fire Inside) met in high school. Today, they’re a band in a constant state of reinvention. Stomping onto the hardcore scene, AFI’s early albums are now essential listening for any fan of punk and alternative music. Often, their albums take on new sounds, never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre. It’s an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions. Now with their twelfth album – Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… – AFl are, once again, marking a new beginning. AFI will also be making their Outbreak and All Points East debut as December Underground hits the 20-year milestone, creating an especially special moment for the band.
Fusing delicate electronic atmospheres with the slow but hard-hitting beats of Southern rap, SALEM formed in 2008. The band are credited as innovators of drag, witch house or haunted house. The group consists of Northern Michigan’s John Holland and Chicago’s Jack Donoghue, both of whom trade vocals over sometimes-blissful, sometimes-nightmarish tracks that borrow equally from DJ Screw and Dead Can Dance. The trio’s first official release was the Yes I Smoke Crack EP, which arrived in 2008 via Acephale Records as a limited edition of 500 copies. This EP and the Water EP, which Merok Records released as another limited edition, cemented Salem’s reputation as one of the underground’s fastest-rising acts. Their 2010 debut album King Night was praised by NME as “monumental” who gave it four stars.
MANNEQUIN PUSSY’S music feels like a resilient and galvanising shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums, the Philadelphia rock band that consists of Colins “Bear” Regisford (bass, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Maxine Steen (guitar, synths), and Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals) has made cathartic tunes about despairing times. “There’s just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like”.
Following the 2019 release of their critically acclaimed third album Patience, MANNEQUIN PUSSY returned in 2021 for their EP Perfect. They toured that release relentlessly and added guitarist Maxine Steen to the band’s official lineup. Where the band members’ personal lives were in transition with breakups, changing living situations, and periods of self-reevaluation, their time together on the road was a grounding and clarifying force.
Jamie Roberts, aka BLAWAN, grew up in Barnsley and first came to prominence with his 2010 debut release, Fram, on the forward-thinking dubstep label Hessle Audio. Blawan has consistently redefined his sound and perfected his craft. Emerging from the post-dubstep scene at the beginning of the decade, he achieved early success with releases on labels like R&S. Natural with fluency for rhythm and flair, Blawan’s other aliases, Kilner and Bored Young Adults, like his collaborations with Pariah as Karenn and with Surgeon as Trade, have provided additional bandwidth for experimentation. Fast forward a few years, Blawan and Pariah started a label called Voam in 2019, and returned to their Karenn project, issuing the EP Kind of Green and the album Grapefruit Regret.
South-African born with Sri-Lankan (Tamil) heritage and an upbringing in Naarm/Melbourne, ECCA VANDAL strutted her way onto the musical landscape in 2015 in traditional punk-style with an edgy disposition and something to say. Ecca’s debut White Flag hit the nerve of a raucous youth, securing high rotation on triple j and rave reviews. With the momentum of ‘Battle Royal’ and ‘End of Time’ in her wings, Ecca would go on to soar with her self-titled debut album – her biggest release yet. Featuring Sampa The Great on ‘Your Orbit’ and fan favourite ‘Future Heroine’ , acclaim includes Rolling Stone who delivered 4.5 stars for the ‘vibrant, dazzling collection of tunes’ , while NME lauded the album’s ‘absolutely banging, genre-bending anthems for a generation’. ECCA VANDAL’S versatility extends outside the studio, just as comfortable in the arenas of Queens of the Stone Age and Gang of Youths, as with electronic greats The Prodigy and Young Fathers.
Taking place at the height of summer, Outbreak Fest and All Points East are coming together to present a celebration of boundary-pushing sounds grouped together by one thing: a complete refusal to be classified. With a lineup comprised of bona fide legends within their fields as well as leaders of the new school of experimentation, All Points East presents Outbreak Fest London 2026 provides a true insight into the landscape of amorphous music in all its forms and a unique festival experience unlikely to be found anywhere else.
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