Long-running UK metal act Orange Goblin are breaking up following their upcoming European tour dates, although the band is not shutting the door completely.
The band announced it will be calling it a day after a strong 30-year run that began in 1995. An official statement on Facebook leaves the door open for a potential reunion down the road, despite the upcoming tour being billed as Orange Goblin’s “final shows.”
The band’s statement read, in part:
“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!”
Before settling on the current band name, the group was known as Our Haunted Kingdom and had a more extreme metal sound in the vein of other UK/European metal acts that were popular in the early 1990s. As the band shifted its style toward heavy psych/stoner-doom, the name was changed to Orange Goblin — inspired by the classic rock bands with color names such as Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, and Black Sabbath.
Orange Goblin have since become a mainstay in the stoner circuit, releasing a steady stream of albums over the years — the most recent being 2024’s Science, Not Fiction on Peaceville Records. Their final 2025 live dates will run from March through September and include major festival slots at Hellfest, Wacken, and more.
You can see the band’s full statement below.