Converge have signed on for the 2025 ‘Fire In The Mountains‘ festival. That event will be staged at the Red Eagle Campground in Glacier, Montana from July 25th-27th. Their participation comes about via the curation of the Firekeeper Alliance, a non-profit suicide prevention organization focused on the Blackfeet Nation and other indigenous communities.
Charlie Speicher, director of the Firekeeper Alliance stated:
“The Firekeeper Alliance exists to support Indigenous communities in creating as much protection from suicide as possible. This specially curated set at Fire in The Mountains is extremely meaningful to us, and we’ve selected one of the most revered heavy bands of all time to perform in the Blackfeet Nation for the first time ever.
To us, Converge is the band that embodies the Firekeeper Alliance ethos perfectly. The sheer power of both their message and their live performance has helped us understand that we can transmute our pain into something positive.
In Indian Country, it’s easy to feel hopelessness in the face of the amount of loss experienced. Converge has taught us that in spite of our pain, we can find hope, so long as we “keep breathing, keep living, keep searching”… This curation is for the hearts still beating.”
Converge added:
“We cannot begin to explain our gratitude to Firekeeper Alliance for the invitation to participate in Fire In The Mountains 2025. This is so much more than a music festival and the importance of that is not lost on us. The great honor and privilege of playing our music in the Blackfeet Nation and the joy and catharsis that comes with it is something for which we will be forever thankful.”
Next year’s ‘Fire In The Mountains‘ lineup currently runs as follows:
Wardruna
Old Man’s Child (first U.S. show)
Blood Incantation
Blackbraid
Emma Ruth Rundle
Hexvessel
Steve Von Till
Pan-Amerikan Native Front
Tzompantli
Majesties (live debut)
Witching
