Arctangent is very much the thinking person's metal festival. It's a wonderfully eclectic argumentation of all those "difficult" bands that operate at the fringes of our world. Every act and subgenre that your mainstream Maiden fan would considered as being "odd" is represented here this weekend. Compared to Bloodstock’s beer and amphetamines fuelled masses, this is a much more refined and even cerebral audience. This is not just metalheads with degrees, this is metalheads with doctorates and plethora’s of letters after their name.

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