Rabidfest 2024: Breaking Down The Bands #18: As The World Dies!

Roll up, roll up, read all about it! Rabidfest returns to The Bullingdon in Oxford for two days of wall to wall riffs, thunderous percussion and rumbling bass as the biggest Metal Weekender the city has ever known! Shelter from the inevitable non stop downpour of rain will be offered on 2nd and 3rd November with beer (and another beverages) in good supply. Expect mosh pits, stage dives and high fives as no less than twenty bands take the stage for two days of Metal debauchery! 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!

As the World Dies came to be in 2018 as a five piece Progressive Death Metal band hailing from Birmingham with Memoriam guitarist Scott Fairfax as their mastermind. He is joined by fellow former Life Denied bandmate Chris McGrath on drums with vocalist Jay “Crikey” Price formerly of Victormonica on vocals. Rounding out the group are Bill Richmond of Pemphigoid fame on bass and the outfits newest recruit in Beg to Suffer and Wrath of Man guitarist Darren McGillivray. 2022 saw the outfit sign with Transcending Obscurity Records, the label home of Hell Is Other People, Monument Of Misanthropy and Resin Tomb to name but a few for their debut album “Agonist“. A well received record adorned by artwork from Indonesian artist Varises Otak (Amenorrhea, Cave Bastard, Unbowed), its 47 minutes of music that harks back to the golden era of Bolt Thrower. What does that mean? The old school brutality of Frozen Soul, the fragmented melodic ambience of Fallujah and the technicality of Obscura all designed to raise hell in the best way possible. A merciless assault on the senses the album has since been followed by a split with the aforementioned Memoriam that appears ahead of a currently in the works sophomore album. All of that means that come Sunday 3rd November, those inside The Bullingdon for Rabidfest could be witnessing new material. Prepare to be crushed!

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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