When the summer festival season is over and next year’s seems like a distant dream there is light at the end of the tunnel. Scrape together your remaining pennies (or beg, steal and borrow some additional funds) and head down to The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of the 4th and 5th November. That’s
Roll up! Roll up! Read all about it! Rabidfest is coming to The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of the 4th and 5th November 2023! It will be the fifth anniversary and to celebrate there is a special twenty (you read that right, 20!) band line up over the two day weekend! One of
A lot can happen in twelve months. Since they were forced to abandon their plans to play Rabidfest in 2022 off the back of debut EP “Necromatic“, Nottingham Symphonic Deathcore purveyors Draconian Reign have returned stronger, signing to Seek & Strike Records and unleashing a sophomore EP “Tragedy Eternal“. Guitarist duo James Mackellar-Still and Cal
Oxford’s The Hope Burden first appeared on our radar when then took to the stage at Rabidfest in November 2021 with a set that found them blurring the lines between Post-Hardcore, Sludge and Black Metal in spellbinding fashion. Vocalist Josh Day, bassist Ryan Thornton, drummer Phil Platt and guitarists Neil Brewer and Jason Smalley had
It’s official. The final line up announcement of this year’s fifth anniversary incarnation of Rabidfest is here and it’s the second headliner making it twenty bands across two days of wall to wall Metal at The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of 4th and 5th November. Who, we hear your cry? Downtempo Deathcore collective
If you’ve not got the memo thus far, this is the Postit note that you might like to read. It’s the fifth anniversary of Rabidfest this November and with each wave of new bands being announced, the event just keeps on growing in stature. You’ll want to be their to witness the bands, take part
After the announcement of not one, not two but six more bands to the line up for the fifth anniversary of Rabidfest, the hottest ticket in town just became scorching. As if you didn’t already know, the event will take place at The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of the 4th and 5th November
After a couple of months of relative radio silence from the Rabidfest Family on additions to the 5th Anniversary line up, the heavens have opened and turned the dry spell into rainy season with no less than six more added in one hit. That means we can stop doing our rain dance and tell you
Celebrating the release of their new EP “Tragedy Eternal” via Seek & Strike Records, Nottingham Dark Symphonic Deathcore brutes Draconian Reign have unleashed a music video for “Before The Gates” which seems to have lyrical roots in the tale of Medusa herself. Having missed out on seeing the band last year as they dropped out
Usually the rules for this weekly throwback feature are simple. A track at least a decade old that means something to us gets shared as if it was a mix tape you gave to a crush… but then there are always exceptions to rules because that’s fun too. So this week we celebrate a year
