Somergloom V
August 7-9, 2025
Are you heavy enough for this heavy music fest?
Will the twin gargoyle statues make an appearance in 2025?
Where’s Kira McSpice?! (The performer has appeared at all four of the previous Somerglooms, but will be taking a breather in 2025. New album on the way. We’ve got an interview here).
Three days of manic melancholy descend on Somerville and Medford. Somergloom, the heavy music festival, marks its fifth year with a mix of new and familiar faces. Is the anniversary a cause for celebration, or another opportunity to brood beneath a black, moonless sky? Choose your own adventure!
A fourstack of three local noisemakers, plus GUHTS from NYC, open the festival at Deep Cuts in Medford on Thursday.
The action then pivots to Crystal Ballroom, with Somergloom veterans Body Void (‘21) headlining Friday and “expressionistic metal ensemble” SUMAC headlining the final night of the festival on Saturday.
Somergloom is touting its international character this year, welcoming MOTHS, a prog metal group out of Puerto Rico, as well as the NYC-based, all-Nepalese language “immigrindcore” of Chepang. All that and more with sixteen bands over three days of beautiful chaos.
T I C K E T S
THURSDAY
August 7 at Deep Cuts
$15 ADV/$20 DOS (18+, under 18 with guardian)
7:00 pm Doors
8:00 pm Main Era
8:45 pm Lesotho
9:30 pm GUHTS
10:15 pm Slow Quit
Main Era, GUHTS, Lesotho, and Slow Quit kick off the first night on Thursday.
Hump Day News interviewed Kyle Loffredo (Lesotho) about the upcoming gig, the forthcoming album, and crazy psychic connections.
FRIDAY
August 8 at Crystal Ballroom
$25 ADV / $30 DOS, ALL AGES
7:00 pm Doors
8:00 pm TFAGH
8:45 pm Vudu Sister
9:25 pm Lepra
10:05 pm The Keening
11:00 pm Body Void
Body Void headline the second night of Somergloom on Friday.
We reviewed “Crown of Fire,” a track off their latest release, a split with Sunrot.
SATURDAY
August 9 at Crystal Ballroom
$45 ADV / $50 DOS, ALL AGES
5:00 pm Doors
6:00 pm Chainlacing
6:45 pm A Monolithic Dome
7:30 pm Cowardice
8:15 pm MOTHS
9:00 pm Chepang
9:45 pm Morne
10:45 pm SUMAC
SUMAC close out an epic three-day festival.
Puerto Rico’s MOTHS will perform on Saturday. Hump Day News interviewed Weslie Negrón (MOTHS) about their US tour, new album Septem, and the metal scene in San Juan.
The Brazilian drummer sits in at The Mad Monkfish.