With the final day coming around fast, the Sunday of Supersonic Festival 2024 takes a slightly more relaxed pace, presenting a day firmly planted in the folk world, with a few exceptions. However, despite the slightly more serene musical focus, today isn’t any less experimental.

With an eccentric mix of artists kicking the weekend off, Supersonic’s Saturday delves deeper into darker experimental musical realms. Things are gonna get a bit heavy as we take you through day two of Supersonic Festival 2024.

Often heralded as one of the best experimental music showcases in Europe, Supersonic Festival is back for its eighteenth edition since its inception in 2003 in its spiritual home of Digbeth. Friday gets things off to a hot start, featuring an eclectic range of artists from insane grind punk to atmospheric electronica.

Highly influential Japanese underground legends envy dial things back for an exploration of powerlessness in an ever divisive world, expanding their outlook and growing with bite-sized new album Eunoia.

Where do you go after releasing one of the most critically acclaimed debut albums of the decade so far? Oklahoma’s prodigal sludge sons Chat Pile return with the highly anticipated follow up Cool World.

The boundaries between time and space are crumbling, the Stargate awaits as Colorado death metal oddity Blood Incantation usher in interdimensional explorations with new album Absolute Elsewhere.

Portland gothic rock four piece Unto Others prepare to take the world by storm, digging deeper into classic rock and traditional goth influences with dreamy third album Never, Neverland.

With the modern wave of deathcore steadily drawing more eyes towards it, Oceano kick the doors down and set the room alight with Living Chaos, their first album in seven years.

Symphonic death metal darlings Fleshgod Apocalypse return anew with ambitious (even by their standards) explorations of a dire near death experience with the opulent and dramatic Opera.

With the likes of Emma Ruth Rundle, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Body + Dis Fig, Gazelle Twin, Grove and Melt Banana at the forefront of this years Supersonic festival, we take a look at some of the other artists you should check out over the weekend.

Oklahoma City’s bleakest sludge wranglers Chat Pile are back for a sold out show in Bristol ahead of their appearance at this year’s Outbreak festival. Joined by anxiety inducing experimental Chicago outfit meth. and powerfully noisy London duo Modern Technology for one of the most punishing shows of the year.

The goths have converged on one location and seized control of the country’s most iconic venue to witness the last breaths of the VV era with a sold out evening full of Love Metal as Ville Valo closes out his globe trotting solo expedition in grand fashion.