Deftones Bring Alt Metal Firepower To Victoria Park This August
There are festival bookings, and then there are statements of intent. On Sunday 23 August 2026, Deftones will headline All Points East at Victoria Park, in a collaboration with Outbreak Fest that reads like a love letter to heavy music in all its shapeshifting forms.
Fresh from a landmark year that saw the Sacramento icons release their tenth studio album private music and complete a sold-out global arena run, Deftones arrive in London amid what can only be described as a renaissance. Hailed as “alt-metal veterans” in a five-star review from The Guardian, the band’s current EU and UK tour has reaffirmed their status as one of the most emotionally potent forces in alternative music. Expect tectonic riffs, gauzy atmospherics and a crowd hanging on every word.
Interpol Return With New Music On The Horizon
Joining as special guests are New York post-punk mainstays Interpol, whose 2002 debut Turn On The Bright Lights helped define an era of sharp-suited melancholia. With a catalogue that has consistently landed high on the Billboard 200 and acclaim stretching from Rolling Stone to TIME, Interpol now stand on the brink of a new chapter, with fresh material imminent. Victoria Park will be treated to the cool precision and brooding grandeur that have long defined their live shows.
AFI Celebrate Reinvention And Milestones
From Ukiah, California to global alternative institution, AFI have built a career on transformation. Hardcore roots gave way to gothic grandeur, electronic flourishes and arena-sized hooks — never settling, always evolving. With their twelfth album Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… signalling yet another rebirth and December Underground hitting its 20-year milestone, their All Points East and Outbreak debut promises both nostalgia and forward motion in equal measure.
Salem, Mannequin Pussy And The New Vanguard
The bill digs deep into the underground and resurfaces with innovators. Michigan and Chicago duo Salem bring their haunted, slow-burn fusion of witch house atmospherics and Southern rap-indebted rhythms — a sound first crystallised on 2010’s King Night.
Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy arrive armed with the visceral punch of 2024’s I Got Heaven, a record that channels rage, vulnerability and defiance into cathartic anthems.
Meanwhile, Barnsley-born techno experimentalist Blawan will perform live, fresh from the release of SickElixir on XL Recordings — a project praised by Pitchfork for its pugnacious, unhinged intensity.
Also newly announced are genre-blurring force Ecca Vandal, whose punk spirit and electronic leanings have earned acclaim across continents.
Previously Announced Acts
Already locked in for the day are IDLES, Amyl and the Sniffers, JPEGMAFIA, Deafheaven, Basement, Show Me The Body, EsDeeKid, Wisp and ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, with further names still to be revealed.
Taking place at the height of summer, this meeting of All Points East and Outbreak Fest is positioned as a celebration of artists who refuse easy categorisation — from bona fide legends to the most compelling voices in experimental music’s new school.
Deftones join fellow 2026 headliners Lorde, Tyler, The Creator and Twenty One Pilots, cementing Victoria Park’s status as the capital’s most eclectic summer stage.
Tickets are on sale now via allpointseastfestival.com. Full line-up and festival programme details are still to come.
Tickets on sale now
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