Long-running UK metallers Orange Goblin have announced that they'll be disbanding following their 2025 touring commitments.
The band shared the news in a statement posted to Facebook, which seems to leave the door open for potential reunions in the future. It reads:
As Orange Goblin enters its 30th year of existence, we have made the collective decision that 2025 will be our last. Maybe not forever and who knows what could be possible further down the line.
It's been a wild 30 years and we have had some incredible experiences and are left with magical memories. For that we are all truly grateful.
We started the band with no real preconception of what it eventually became, we started as bored teenagers with a mutual love of Heavy Metal, Classic Rock and Punk Rock. We feel very fortunate that we have been able to travel all over the world, numerous times, and have made a network of friends all around the globe. We are proud of everything we have accomplished together, we've always maintained a DIY ethic and done things our own way and on our terms. We have never compromised to fit into any specific scene and we feel we leave a very strong legacy of 10 studio albums, each one a milestone that marks exactly where we were at each point of our journey. Of this, we are fiercely proud.
It's not been an easy decision for any of us, we have all given 30 years of our lives to this incredible band, but we feel that now is the right time for us to focus our attention on our families and other interests outside the band. We will of course be honouring all the shows and festivals we currently have planned for 2025, as well as a few other things that we have in the pipeline, but these could be your last chance to catch Orange Goblin live!
Orange Goblin was founded in 1995, although they were then known as Our Haunted Kingdom and had a more extreme metal sound reminiscent of other popular UK acts of the early '90s. Over the years, they have released 10 studio albums — the most recent being last year's Science, Not Fiction.