Rabidfest 2025: Breaking Down The Bands #16: Wall!

They say time flies when you’re having fun, one minute you’re at Catton Park in Derbyshire enjoying all that Bloodstock has to offer in the blazing summer sun, the next it’s just thirty one days until November and Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest. Where does the time go? Earning cold hard cash to spend on beers at The Bullingdon on the 1st and 2nd of November ain’t no joke in the current climate. But it will be worth it because there will be no less than twenty bands taking to the Devolution Magazine sponsored main stage so you can enjoy two days of wall to wall riffs, pounding percussion and rumbling bass and forget all about your troubles. Stage dives, high fives, scream-a-long choruses, breakdowns and solos is what it’s all about!

Here’s the line-up in full!:

Friday: The Fight Before Rabidfest on 31st October at The Jericho Tavern:

Confessions Of A Traitor
Ocean Planet
Imperial Avenue
Along The Pines

Saturday: 1st November at The Bullingdon:

Raging Speedhorn (headliner)
Kill II This
Raised By Owls
Arimea
Wall
Thrashatouille
Korrupto
Talassum
Break Them
R.P.C

Sunday: 2nd November at The Bullingdon:

Red Method (headliner)
Seething Akira
Redeemon
Froglord
Until 9
Collapser
Lethal Evil
Liquid Dogs
Æi-Fierlen
Mondegreen

Fresh from a blistering set on the Sophie Lancaster stage at Bloodstock, brothers Ryan and Elliot Cole, also known as Wall, will be returning to Rabidfest in November. The pair, perhaps better known as the guitarist and drummer from Oxford royalty Southern Stoner Sludge Metal outfit Desert Storm are replacing Komatsu who unfortunately can no longer offer us their cryptic writings at this years event. An instrumental project born out of the boredom of the Great Plague years and specializing in riffs to get audiences swaying like marionettes while banging their heads and raising a poison chalice, Wall will no doubt be performing cuts from 2024’s debut album “Brick By Brick“. An APF Records release that sees them pay homage to their heroes with covers of “Electric Funeral” by Black Sabbath and “Nineteen” by Karma To Burn, its a demonstration of just how captivating instrumental music can be when given the chance. The lords of the mighty riff have already enjoyed a run of shows since that fateful day at Bloodstock, including playing the iconic Manchester Rebellion, so you know they’re already primed and ready and with a home town crowd to play to, the pair are going to be loving every second.

We’re proud to be a Media Partner of Rabidfest again this year alongside Red Death Media, Moomin Merchandise, Moshville Times, Moshville Radio, Metalplanetmusic, GraphicsFix, TwoFace Promotions, Blackstar Amplification 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 1st and 2nd November 2025:

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