Following the news that Blaze Bayley has suffered a heart attack and is in recovery the Rabidfest Family sends it’s collective best wishes for a speedy recovery with the hope that the former Iron Maiden frontman can make a triumphant return to the Devolution Magazine sponsored main stage in November. A major part of the
“Just when you thought you had it figured out that’s when, The wave of terror comes crashing down” that’s what Danny Leal from Upon A Burning Body wrote on “Sin City” from the bands seminal album “Red. White. Green.” back in 2012 and it kind of seems fitting with the wave of new band announcements
Well, well, well. Three holes in the ground. The fifth anniversary of Rabidfest just got a whole lot bigger with the announcement of four additional bands to join the original nine! Midlands Tech-Death Monsters Monasteries will be joined by the complex and catchy Lest We Forget, Emo warriors Reveller and high velocity Hardcore from Johanna
After seven days of highs and lows on Planet Metal it’s time to return to our Breaking Down The Bands series ahead of this year’s 5th Anniversary of Rabidfest. So far nine bands have been announced for the event, which will take place at The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of the 4th and
They say that time flies when you’re having fun, but the reality is it also flies when you’re working your fingers to the bone in a nine to five grind waiting for that next pay check so you can go to a few gigs and festivals… which tenuous link brings us to this weeks incarnation
It’s all high fives and stage dives with March approaching and the fifth week of celebration of the forthcoming fifth anniversary of Rabidfest in full swing. Forget diet Tuesday. This is full fat, high caffeine, adrenaline pumping, mosh pit inciting stuff. You should already know that Rabidfest will take place at The Bullingdon in Oxford
Thus far Rabidfest have given us no less than nine reasons to snap up a ticket for their fifth anniversary which will take place at The Bullingdon in Oxford over the weekend of the 4th and 5th November 2023 and that’s just the start. The tip of the iceberg. The frostbite bitten toe. The… Ah
Week #16 of our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene takes us to Derby. The home of Download Festival, famous for giving us Sociology, Lara Croft and the first ever water works system is also the home of DJent infused progressive tech-metal (or as The Derby Evening Telegraph described them