Rabidfest 2024: Breaking Down The Bands #20: Forlorn!

This years incarnation of Rabidfest maybe almost upon us but there is still time to grab yourself, a friend, a family member or even a neighbour a ticket. You might not consider two days of wall to wall Metal of various flavours the ideal first date, but why not? What’s the worst that can happen? You get drunk, get involved in the mosh pit and get knocked out cold by a spin kicker. If your date is by your side in the hospital when you come around, then you know you’re on to a winner. Get involved, support the underground Metal scene, witness some incredible bands and let your hair down. You deserve 20 bands over 2 days with no clashes and that is what you’ll get at Rabidfest over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd November! Here’s the line up in full…

Saturday 2nd November:

Evile (Headliner)
Cloven Hoof
Fury
Damaged Reich
Eschalon
Existentialist
Imperium
40000 Leagues
Dead Man’s Pistol
Rats Eat Rats

Sunday 3rd November:

Viscera (Headliner)
Forlorn
Ocean Planet
Recall The Remains
Voidwalker
Draconian Reign
As The World Dies
From Her Ashes
Theorist
Halfway Home

…and if you fancy the pre-show, you can witness Seething Akira, Crostpaths, The Crushing and Eliminate The Middle Class at “The Night Before Rabidfest” warm up at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford on Friday 1st November!

Who are Forlorn and why are they worth the admittance fee? For those not indoctrinated into their Folk Horror Metal ways, they’re a band who are as much expressionist artists as they are musicians. Post-Metal and paganism are all part of the sonic tapestry they create as they lull the discerning listener into a hypnotic trance with their ethereal vocals and haunting soundscapes like a siren. As we all know, sirens smash the bodies of sailors on the jagged rocks and eat their flesh, which is exactly what the five piece do in metaphor with the brutal screams of vocalist Megan Jenkins, punishing down tuned guitars and percussion doing the damage. Blurring the lines between sub-genres, somehow the band have injected ambient soundscapes into what is essentially a Symphonic Black Metal skeleton in the studio. In the live arena that it translated with a sense of theatrical drama to give it another captivating dimension and making them a band not to be missed. After all, the incredible “The Weight of It All” has the better part of 181k of Spotify streams alone and statistics they don’t lie.

We’re proud to be a Media Partner of Rabidfest again this year alongside Red Death Media, Moomin Merchandise, Metalplanetmusic, Moshville Times, GraphicsFix, TwoFace Promotions, Blackstar Amplification, Metal Nation Records and main stage sponsor. Devolution Magazine. The Festival is all for charity and this year the profits will be going to the The Sophie Lancaster Foundation!

Rabidfest will take place at The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd November 2024:

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