RADAR Festival 2027 announces first headliner: Mick Gordon performing DOOM in a world-first performance
The genre-busting RADAR Festival is delighted to announce a world-first headliner for its 2027 edition.
Headlining RADAR next year: Mick Gordon.
Mick Gordon is the composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and acclaimed sound designer who turned DOOM's soundtrack into one of the most instantly recognisable pieces of gaming music ever produced.
At RADAR 2027 Mick will bring the DOOM soundtrack to the stage for the first time, featuring the DOOM Machine (his custom DOOM instrument), with a full live band and an orchestra for good measure. This isn't a DJ set, and it isn't a tribute act. It's the actual composer, the actual score - the riffs played properly loud in a room that can withstand all the ripping and tearing.
Mick has never performed this music live, like this. Until RADAR came calling.
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RADAR - the UK's most exciting progressive music festival - moved to Manchester for its 2023 edition, the third iteration of the festival.
RADAR pride themselves on providing a first home for the best international artists - previous years have seen Dirty Loops' (2022) and The Callous Daoboys' (2023) first UK shows; it was also the first festival to provide a headline slot for Sleep Token (2023).
RADAR 2026, happening as we speak, 31st July-2nd August, is headlined by Welsh ragga metal legends Skindred, deathcore heavyweights Thy Art Is Murder, and technical metal titans Animals As Leaders, alongside a host of the world's best weird and wonderful heavy artists.
RADAR 2025 saw a stellar headline set from darkwave heavyweight Carpenter Brut and metalcore legends UNDERØATH, alongside some of the hottest talent from the UK and further afield.
RADAR 2024's Friday headliners - synth royalty The Midnight - made their UK festival debut in Manchester. Accompanying them were Saturday headliners TesseracT, as the UK prog metal titans delivered a special War Of Being album set. Finally, closing the festival on Sunday, modern progressive titans Leprous performed a world-first live, by request fan set.
RADAR 2023 had Friday headliners Sleep Token joining Periphery (Sunday) and Igorrr (Saturday) among a host of the best from the UK and global progressive underground.
RADAR capped their intensely impressive 2022 by winning the Best New Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards on 6th December in Manchester, and were shortlisted for Best Small Festival and Best Metropolitan Festival at 2023 and 2024's UK Festival Awards.
With their mixture of international talent and confirmed homegrown success, RADAR Festival has already positioned themselves as a champion of forward-thinking, guitar-led progressive music. No genre boundaries, welcome to all, RADAR Festival was launched in 2019 to acclaim, with performances from Animals As Leaders, Agent Fresco, Rolo Tomassi, among others. Following the COVID hiatus, RADAR Festival 2022 expanded to three days with triumphant appearances from Leprous, Haken, Dirty Loops, Plini, Conjurer, Soen and more.