Rabidfest 2024: Breaking Down The Bands #5: Voidwalker!

Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies but we will say this. The place to be over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd November 2024 is The Bullingdon in Oxford for this years Rabidfest. Twenty bands from the United Kingdom Underground Metal scene, including many who have played Tech-Fest and Bloodstock will be performing, competing against each other to get the biggest mosh pits, the most beer spilled and of course your hard earned cash at the merch stand. In the build up, each week we’ve been warning you about the Shape of Punk to come with our “Breaking Down The Bands” series and this week is no different. But before we get to that, here’s the all important line up in full…

Evile (Saturday Headliner)
Viscera (Sunday Headliner)
Cloven Hoof
Fury
Recall The Remains
Voidwalker
From Her Ashes
Imperium
Eschalon
Draconian Reign
Existentialist
Damaged Reich
As The World Dies
Rats Eat Rats
Forlorn
Ocean Planet
40000 Leagues
Theorist
Dead Man’s Pistol
Halfway Home

I need coffee. I need a nap. I need a vacation. I need duct tape, rope and a shovel. Rumour has that those are the four moods of Leicester Progressive Technical Deathcore quintet Voidwalker, a band who freely admit that if you don’t follow them they’ll come to your house and steal your lightbulbs. Having given us their debut EP “Democratic Fever Dream” back in 2020 they have turned stages to sawdust all over the United Kingdom with everyone from Vexed, Monasteries and Kryptess being forced to deliver their finest performances in order to keep up. Four years on they dropped their sophomore EP “The Slow Decay” back in March, it’s cover art depicting a post apocalyptic vision of a barren wasteland in which humanity burns to death in scorching sunshine. You don’t get much more Metal that that, do you? Fans favourite “Tar Stained Lips”, originally released in 2022 as a standalone single was re-recorded for that one, a sharpened new rendition that the edge of the seat was made for. All of that helped pave the way for them to play this years sixth incarnation of Rabidfest, Oxfords finest Metal Weekender and follow in the footsteps of a long line of underground Extreme Metal acts including Tyrants and Public Execution to grace the Devolution Magazine sponsored main stage. They’re coming to shake the foundations, the question is are you ready?!

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, DC Sound Attack and main stage sponsor. Devolution Magazine. The Festival is all for charity and next 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:

Get your tickets here -> https://www.rabidfest.co.uk

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