…with the power of a raging tsunami and a tidal wave of an accompaniment, the organisers of Oxfords biggest Metal Weekender Rabidfest have gone six for six. That’s right, they’ve added a colossal six bands to give us their final line up announcement for the 2024 sixth incarnation of the annual Festival! Taking place at
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
It’s raining cats and frogs outside but the biscuit tea is piping hot so thank heaven for small mercies; it’s time for some idle speculation about the remaining six as yet to be announced bands to take to the Devolution Magazine sponsored main stage at this years sixth incarnation of Oxfords biggest metal weekender Rabidfest.
Having already announced their intensions to reduce Oxford to rubble in November at the sixth incarnation of Rabidfest, Imperium have laid out plans for a whirlwind of shows up and down the United Kingdom in March, April and May making it four festivals for the year thus far. All of these dates are of course
As the evenings begin to get lighter and the daffodils are in full bloom, Oxford’s biggest Metal Weekender Rabidfest have announced another four bands including their Sunday Headliner for the sixth incarnation of the annual pilgrimage. Mecca for the event is The Bullingdon over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd November, where no less
Having fired their starting pistol early and unveiled the first six bands for the sixth annual incarnation of Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest in December, you could have forgiven the organisers for sitting on their laurels for a few months. But it’s often said that January is a miserable month, so to brighten things up
How do you go about solving a problem like picking your top #5 EPs of 2023? Like any puzzle you break it down into smaller, easier to digest pieces and we do so by creating a few rules. It has to have been released in the year 2023, reviewed in the year 2023 and stick
If it’s a choice between certain death and picking our favourite cut from the incredible EP “When Kings Meet” from London Groove Thrash merchants Imperium then we’d have to go with the anthem that is “Iron Thunder“. Fortunately for us that scorcher is the subject of part three of their track by track lowdown series
Episode three of the Netflix bound series from Imperium about their sophomore EP “When Kings Meet” has been unveiled with the band discussing how they came up with “Capable Of Murder“. It all about the banter, so expect them to go off on a tangent and talk over each other but its all in fun!
Having discussed at length the title track of their new EP “When Kings Meet” in the first episode, Imperium return to their track by track lowdown series to talk about “Desperate Screams” for episode #2. If you missed it, the band have been announced in the first wave for Oxfords finest Metal Weekender (trademark, patent