YUNGBLUD has been announced as one of this year’s Electric Castle headliners, with the 24-hour fest adding a bunch more acts to complete the 2025 line-up.
Bánffy Castle festival Electric Castle has completed their 2025 line-up.
The 24-hours-a-day Transylvanian event – which takes place from July 16 to 20 – reveal that YUNGBLUD will headline, alongside the previously-announced Queens Of The Stone Age, Justin Timberlake, Justice and Bicep.
Elsewhere, rising punks Bad Nerves have also joined the bill, as well as the eclectic mix of RUDIM3NTAL, Artemas, Róisín Murphy, Fish56Octagon, Brutalismus, Iris, Zdob și Zdub and more. In the Kerrang! world, Refused, The Amazons, Sisters Of Mercy and Joey Valence & Brae were previously confirmed for this year.
Of course, YUNGBLUD returned with his epic nine-minute single Hello Heaven, Hello last month, announcing: “I’ve been discouraged from releasing a nine-minute and six second song as my first move back in a year because, in the modern world, it’s seen as a ‘risk’. I don’t see it that way at all – I see it as an opportunity. In my opinion, risk is an artist’s greatest tool – putting everything on the line in pursuit of the best evolution and art you can create. Without risk, there is no innovation.”
Speaking more specifically about the inspiration behind Hello Heaven, Hello, he continued, “Rock music is in my DNA. It’s the first genre I was ever exposed to; I grew up in a guitar shop with my dad and my grandfather. Rock music helped me find an identity as a human being.
“Hello Heaven, Hello is a journey of self-reclamation – a goodbye to the past and how you may have known or perceived me before, and a ‘hello’ to the future and where I’m going. It’s an adventure that is sonically more ambitious than ever before – a journey that is meant to be played in its entirety, never holding back or allowing its imagination to be filtered.”
Read this next:
