Bringing the first May bank holiday weekend to a glorious end Rabidfest have announced six more bands for this year’s incarnation of Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender – including the Sunday night headliner! That honour goes to Trap Metal act n0trixx with Spared An Endless Orbit, Necronomicunt, The Blade Itself, Twin Skeletons and Sabertooth also added. The event
Filmed by Mortal Media at Club 85 in Hitchin, a live rendition of “As Above So Below” by Devilhusk has surfaced online. The track is one from the bands debut EP “Sleep Like The Dead“, a record which has seen them announced for Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest on 31st October and 1st November at
Six months may have passed since their debut EP “Sleep Like The Dead” received it’s grand unveiling but Devilhusk are still seething. So taking a step beyond what they did with that genre bending record the four piece have sucked down some off brand energy drinks, screamed at their faces in the mirror and instead
Over the past month or so the Rabidfest team have announced 11 of the 20 bands set to grace the stage at this years incarnation of Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender. As the Sunday night headliner slot remains hidden in plain slight, it’s time for a little idol speculation on who they might have filling the
After the 10th March announcement of the first five bands and the Saturday night headliner, Rabidfest have admitted to booking another six bands for Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender. While they’ve kept their Sunday headliner a closely guarded secret for now, they have warned of eleven of the twenty bands set to cause a tear in
Roll up, roll up, read all about it! As we know Oxfords finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest will take place over the 31st October and 1st November 2026 with no less than twenty bands set to descend upon The Bullingdon for another round of blood, sweat and beers in the mosh pit. The question at this
They may have only delivered us to the evil of their sophomore EP “Ultra Violence” in August but six months on, Peterborough Hardcore crew Break Them are ready for the third chapter in their infamous existence. This time out it seems the Rabidfest and Metal 2 The Masses survivors, who have reduced venues to rubble with
Joined by Keller Maxwell of Theorist Rabidfest survivors Ocean Planet shave unleashed new single “Siege Machine“, a portrait in Progressive Technical Metalcore. The Reading natives won Metal 2 The Masses in Oxford in 2025 and performed at Bloodstock on the New Blood stage and are currently writing both a new album and EP while being in
Accompanied by artwork from Steven Herrington-Trueman, a new single from Rabidfest surviving Doom Folk Metal band Talassum titled “Broken Cog” is now streaming everywhere that’s good. The band who were born from the ashes of Bring To Bear are taking part in the Oxford incarnation of Metal To The Masses this year for the opportunity
We had the pleasure of a conversation with vocalist Stephanie Moffatt and guitarist Rob Melville from Post-Black Metal quartet Æl-Fierlen after what has to go down as a phenomenal year for them. Not only was their debut album “All Is Far Away” very well received but their performance at Oxfords finest Metal Weekender that is Rabidfest
