While we impatiently wait for the powers that be at Rabidfest HQ to announce the final seven bands and the sins they’ve committed to get on the Devolution Magazine sponsored main stage at this years event, it’s time to breakdown another band. Before we get to that however it’s time for a cheeky reminder. This
The full line-up and the day splits might not be announced just yet but believe it or not it’s just twenty (20) weeks until Oxfords finest Metal weekender returns. That means it’s time for us to start our weekly introduction to the bands that are playing Rabidfest at The Bullingdon over the weekend of 1st
Get ready for a nightmare you won’t soon forget. For the second year running a Rabidfest have announced show on the night before Oxfords biggest Metal weekender. Dubbed “The Fright Before Rabidfest” it will take place at The Jericho Tavern on the evening Friday 31st October with tickets sold separately to the main event. So
No word of a lie but back on 22nd March when we shared our “5 Possibilities for Rabidfest 2025” article, we put Corby wrestling heroes Raging Speedhorn on the list with no advanced knowledge of the fact that a month on they would be announced as the Saturday headliner! What’s even more interesting about it
While we were having some fun at Metal Noise HQ throwing around possible names for bands that could play this year’s incarnation of Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest with a “5 Possibilities” article this past weekend, the organisers have been putting together an actual line up. They’ve announced a second wave of five bands to
Ahead of the sixth annual incarnation of Oxford’s biggest Metal Weekender in November, the powers behind Rabidfest have announced a warm up show that will ensure spilled beers in a crazy mosh pit. Taking place at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford on 20th July, the show will find a quartet of bands taking to the
A one take guitar playthrough video for “Nostalgia” from Arimea strings master Tom Cooper has been submitted in evidence to the online court. The judgement is that not only is he ready for the bands upcoming show but he’s going to give some of the myriad of other guitarists on his stage a run for
Alternative Metal outfit Arimea have announced a winter warmer of five shows that will see them joined by Sixth Wonder, Liquid State and Bother in various places up and down the country next month. Riding high on a wave of success with the waterfall release of singles including “Castiel” and “Nostalgia“, the lovers of late
Having reduced castle bravo to rubble long ago in a Guy Fawkes inspired dynamite based act of chivalry, Oxford Alternative Metal act Arimea have been churning out the collossal singles like a Medieval war machine. The latest of those is “Castiel“, a song about Supernatural which premieres after the bands announcement that they will be
