Rabidfest 2023: Breaking Down The Bands #15: Bound In Fear!
It’s official. The final line up announcement of this year’s fifth anniversary incarnation of Rabidfest is here and it’s the second headliner making it twenty bands across two days of wall to wall Metal at The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of 4th and 5th November. Who, we hear your cry? Downtempo Deathcore collective and Unique Leader Records bad luck crew Bound In Fear! They join an already stacked line up and who’s who of the United Kingdom Underground Metal scene that has has its ears pierced by a few heavy hitters. Here’s the line up in full…
Bound In Fear
Blaze Bayley
Absolva
Ward XVI
Mortishead
Tribe Of Ghosts
Gutlocker
Imperium
From Her Ashes
Draconian Reign
Monasteries
Reveller
LestWeForget
Johanna Rey
Cage Fight
Stone Soup
Second Hour
Depolarize
Indecorum
Sworn Amongst
So who the f*** are Bound In Fear and why should you invite your friends, family, neighbours and ex-loves to the festival to check them out? Well… You should probably know this by now given the love for the band in the scene but we’ll forgive you this once. Don’t make a habit out of it. Forged in the fires of Hell circa 2016 the Downtempo Deathcore quintet have churned out a trio of albums in 2021’s “Penance” and 2019’s “The Hand Of Violence” and 2017’s “Regicide” while being joined by a myriad of guest vocalists along the way. Household names like Tyler Shelton of Traitors, Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher and Taylor Barber of Left To Suffer have all graced cuts while vocalist Ben Mason has clocked up a wealth of his own guest appearances, including one with Tribe Of Ghosts who appear at this year’s Rabidfest. They’ve toured the Planet, reducing venues to rubble in the process and with an appearance at this summer’s Tech-Fest serving as a warm up they’re going to be in full annihilation mode come November. In times of Peace prepare for War because that is exactly what the mosh pit is going to be like during their set….
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Rabidfest will take place at The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of the 4th and 5th November 2023:
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