Photo Credit: Jake Ten

UK tech-metalcore new comers Eschalon have launched with their debut single 'Helios', along with a stunning music video.

Featuring the legendary Neema Askari of Fell Silent, watch the video directed by Jake Ten here: https://youtu.be/6CTtOftgYSY

Stream on Spotify and Apple Music.

Founded in Cambridge by Simon Garrod and Miles Taylor, Eschalon has been a behind-the-scenes project for many years. Throughout lockdown, the band finished writing multiple bodies of work before recruiting the right members for the job, which eventually saw the culmination of what we know as Eschalon today.

Eschalon started recording with Meyrick De La Fuente of Floodgate Audio in late 2021 to create their all-encompassing auditory and visual onslaught. Mixing dissonance with serenity, Eschalon draw from a wide range of influences, fusing multiple genres to create a dense and chaotic soundscape. 

On the new single 'Helios', the band comment: "Burning compassion in the face of shadows. 'Helios' is a fervent testament to the unyielding spirit that reaches out to uplift those grappling with turmoil. The lyrics weave an intricate tapestry of heartfelt altruism, resonating with anyone who's ever extended a hand to someone in need. It's a symphony of devotion, capturing the fiery passion of aiding others while acknowledging the toll it can take. Journeys through cosmic allegories mirror the emotional voyage, as the track kindles a guiding light through the darkest of times."

The first single 'Helios' is also a tribute to one of the pillars of the tech metal community. The band continue: "On November 1st, 2022 we lost our dear friend Karl Riley of Carcer City. Karl had been a supporter of Eschalon for many years, and had introduced us to our vocalist Brad. Brad was Karl’s best friend, and cared for him until the very end. Karl had become obsessed with number synchronicities and had been telling his friends, family and nurses that the numbers ‘11122’ were important to his life, but that he did not know what they meant. Having predicted the date of his own passing, we felt this was an important date and marked it as a date we should honour as a band. We decided that 1/11/23, a year on from Karl’s passing, we would release Helios in loving memory of Karl Riley, to honour him, and our relationship as a band which he hand a significant hand in forging.

"Karl Riley Forever."

Eschalon recently played their debut live show to a sold-out audience in Cambridge, opening for Vexed. News on more live shows coming soon.

Eschalon are:
Vocals: Brad Makinson, Maximo David
Guitars: Simon Garrod, Callum Smith
Bass: James O’Donoghue
Drums: Miles Taylor

FFO: Monuments, Northlane, Architects, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Agent Fresco

Eschalon online:
https://linktr.ee/eschalon
https://www.facebook.com/Eschalon
https://www.instagram.com/eschalonuk

Photo Credit: Sonke Danneman

Boundary pushing quartet Unprocessed have released their new single / video ‘Glass’, taken from their upcoming third album ...and everything in between, set for release on 1st December 2023. 

Watch the video for 'Glass' here: https://youtu.be/JyZ27Sw0vIE

Pre-save ...and everything in between here: https://ffm.to/andeverythinginbetween

Pre-order ...and everything in between here: www.unprocessed.band

The band comment: “‘Glass’ serves as the atmospheric, dark, yet beautiful episode of our album. Starting with a signature Unprocessed tapping harmonic riff, ‘Glass’ delivers upon a story of toxic love and the sacrifices one has to make to sustain this kind of relationship. The lyrics state “Loving you feels like walking on broken glass”. The song travels through a storm and culminates in a hopeful ending with its unexpected mood change. ‘Glass’ is a big ballad that perfectly captures the melodic side of this record, and we can’t wait to hear you sing along with us.”

‘Glass’, the third single taken from the upcoming album, ...and everything in between, is a bold and complex record pushing the boundaries of technical musicianship, song construction, sonic production and more. Inspired by the emotions conjured from life experiences, Unprocessed have channelled their raw visceral power through their musical talent to create this special record. Never before could one have considered a band being likened to artists as extreme as The Dillinger Escape Plan, Polyphia and Bring Be The Horizon, yet Unprocessed have done it. 

On ... and everything in between, the band are: “Taking all influences and combining them into an ultimate evolution of everything Unprocessed has ever been, while still adding a new flavour and style to the mix. Epic riffs with intricate licks and mind-bending rhythms, brutal breakdowns, epic guitar solos and big and catchy choruses.

“...and everything in between can quite literally be described as everything in between the extremes of life. Dealing with anger, sorrow, nostalgia, love and fear the album reflects on the different shades of a personality that everyone is made out of (e.g. there is evil in everyone). “

Be ready for a whole host of surprises on ...and everything in between, including a special guest appearance from recent tour mates Tim Henson and Scott LePage of Polyphia.

The masters of merging guitar-driven and virtuosic flavours of pop, rock and metal - Manuel Gardner Fernandes, David Levy (bass, synths), Christoph Schultz (guitar) and Leon Pfeifer (drums) are back with their most adventurous record yet.

Having toured the world numerous times, sharing stages with the likes of Polyphia, Spiritbox and many more, Unprocessed have established themselves as one of the most exciting live acts today. This album will take Unprocessed on their first consecutive cycle of headline tours through Europe and the USA. Unprocessed have also been announced as support to TesseracT on their upcoming EU & UK Tour in Jan/Feb 2024 with Callous Daoboys opening.

EU/UK dates with TesseracT & Callous Daoboys:

Jan 18th: Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, LUX
Jan 19th: CCO la Rayonne, Villeurbanne, FRA
Jan 20th: Apolo, Barcelona, ESP
Jan 21st: Mon Live, Madrid, ESP
Jan 23rd: Bataclan, Paris, FRA
Jan 25th: Artefact la Laiterie, Strasbourg, FRA
Jan 26th: Trix, Antwerp, BEL
Jan 27th: Im Wizemann, Stuttgart, GER
Jan 28th: Alcatraz, Milan, ITA
Jan 30th: Komplex 457, Zurich, CHE
Feb 01st: Palác Akropolis, Prague, CZE
Feb 02nd: Backstage Halle, Munich, GER
Feb 03rd: Simm City, Vienna, AUT
Feb 04th: Barba Negra, Budapest, HUN
Feb 06th: Columbia Theater, Berlin, GER
Feb 07th: Progresja, Warsaw, POL
Feb 09th: Tampereen Tavara-asema, Tampere, FIN
Feb 10th: Tavastia, Helsinki, FIN
Feb 12th: Fryshuset Klubben, Stockholm, SWE
Feb 13th: Vulkan Arena, Oslo, NOR
Feb 15th: Amager Bio, Copenhagen, DEN
Feb 16th: Grünspan, Hamburg, GER
Feb 17th: Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne, GER
Feb 18th: TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, NLD
Feb 20th: Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Feb 21st: Institute, Birmingham, UK
Feb 22nd: Academy, Bristol, UK
Feb 23rd: Forum, London, UK
Feb 24th: Ritz, Manchester, UK
Feb 25th: SWG3, Glasgow, UK
Feb 27th: Academy, Dublin, IRL

Unprocessed are:
Manuel Gardner Fernandes - Vocals, Guitars
Christoph Schultz - Guitars
David John Levy - Bass & Keys
Leon Pfeifer - Drums

Unprocessed online:
www.unprocessed.band
www.facebook.com/unprocessedofficial
www.Instagram.com/unprocessedband 

...and everything in between tracklisting:

I Hell (4:48)
II Lore (3:50)
III Thrash (3:36)
VI Blackbone (4:32)
V Die on the Cross of the Martyr (featuring Tim Henson and Scott LePage of Polyphia) (4:30)
VI Glass (3:46)
VII Abysm (5:39)
VII I Wish I Wasn’t (3:05) 
IX Purgatory (4:51)

Photo Credit: Scott Chalmers

Saint Agnes have announced the digital deluxe edition of their latest album Bloodsuckers, due for release on 24th November via Spinefarm. Bloodsuckers (Deluxe Edition) will feature four additional tracks, including remixes of 'Animal' and 'Outsider' and a live version of 'This Is Not The End'. 

Today, Saint Agnes have released a video for 'Body Bag', featuring rising trap-metal artist Mimi Barks. 

Check out the video for 'Body Bag' here: https://youtu.be/lnI26i8wE0I

Stream/purchase Bloodsuckers here: https://sntagnes.lnk.to/BLOODSUCKERSID

Kitty A. Austen comments: 

"We made a minute and a half of pure fury and there was only one person I could think of to match it. There’s nothing i love more than working with badass women. Hope you enjoy as much as I did making it."

Saint Agnes have also announced a rescheduled and expanded UK headline tour, set to take place in January and February 2024. The tour follows the band's recent shows supporting Skindred. 

Dates are as follows: 

Jan 20: Manchester Fac251 
Jan 21: Bristol Exchange 
Jan 23: Leeds The Key Club
Jan 24: Nottingham Bodega 
Jan 25: London The Garage 
Jan 26: Birmingham The Devil's Dog
Jan 27: Glasgow Garage Attic 
Jan 28: Newcastle Think Tank 
Jan 30: Norwich Voodoo Daddy's 
Jan 31: Milton Keynes The Craufurd Arms 
Feb 01: Southampton 1865 
Feb 02: Guildford Boileroom 
Feb 03: Brighton Patterns 

Tickets are on sale here: https://www.wearesaintagnes.com/

Hailing from the UK, Saint Agnes are all about honest lyrics, intense vocal performances, plus rage-fuelled music intended to give a voice to those closer to the fringe than the centre.

As much gang as band, Saint Agnes seek to empower those who’ve been battered and bruised yet refuse to lie down, and it’s a thread that runs deep within Bloodsuckers – SA’s first album for Spinefarm, the follow-up to 2019’s Welcome To Silvertown, issued on the band’s own label.
 
In addition to … Silvertown, Saint Agnes have released a number of singles, videos and EPs, embarked on headline tours in both the UK and Europe, and appeared at a host of festivals, including Download, 2000trees, Isle of Wight and Kendal Calling.

Saint Agnes have also made big waves in the gaming world, with the release of Dead Island 2 in April. The game, which features the Saint Agnes song 'And They All Fall Down', has sold over two million copies.
 
One thing’s for sure, it’s got nothing to do with rule-books or playing it safe…
 
From the title track (also lead single / video) onwards, Bloodsuckers is a genre-jumping body of work, taking in elements of metal, punk, industrial and grunge, without being bound by any specific style; the 11 tracks here come straight from the source, largely self-produced and mixed (NIN collaborator Sean Beavan lends his mixing and production skills to ‘Follow You’), and this self-contained approach provides an extra emotional weight throughout, with doom trap provocateur and Kerrang! cover artist Mimi Barks further fuelling the chaos on the short, sharp shock that is ‘Body Bag’.
 
Created in the months following the unexpected and untimely death of Kitty’s mother, Bloodsuckers explores a number of themes, including mental illness, pent-up rage, undying love and, of course, grief; from the trash-metal howl into the night that is ‘Bloodsuckers’ right through to broken ballad, ‘This Is Not The End’, a poignant reflection of Kitty’s still-raw emotions, this is a call to outsiders everywhere…

Concludes Kitty: “Creating this album gave me a reason to get to my feet at a time when I really wasn’t sure if I could. I’ve tried to put everything I’ve been feeling into it, all the pain, the rage, the grief, even the unexpected moments of beauty and belief. I hope it makes you feel less alone. I hope it makes you feel bigger, badder and stronger. We might be damaged but that doesn’t mean we’re worthless. This is a record for the defeated, the crushed. We might be broken but that doesn’t mean we’re not whole. Bloodsuckers forever, Saint Agnes forever.”

Saint Agnes are:
 
Kitty A. Austen - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Jon James Tufnell - Guitar, Vox, Bass
Andrew Head - Drums

Saint Agnes online:
https://www.facebook.com/wearesaintagnes
https://twitter.com/WeareSaintAgnes
https://www.instagram.com/wearesaintagnes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVjtrzewE0VgjsG9PONcEQ

Bloodsuckers (Deluxe Edition) tracklist: 

1. Bloodsuckers
2. Animal
3. I Mean Nothing To you
4. Outsider
5. This Is Not The End
6. Follow You
7. I Am
8. At War With Myself
9. Middle Finger
10. Body Bag (ft. Mimi Barks)
11. Forever And Ever
12. Animal (House of Blood Remix)
13. Outsider (House of Blood Remix)
14. I Choose You
15. This Is Not The End (live)

j:dead return with their new single 'Harbour', taken from their upcoming EP ROOTS, released 1st December via Infacted Records. This latest anthem is a symphony of powerful vocals, atop a backdrop of driving synths and crushed melodies, and is accompanied by two remixes from Aesthetic Perfection and genCAB. 'Harbour' chaotically and introspectively depicts the characters who make up who we are – displayed in the frantic embodiment of the music video. 

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/xSI1zT0yZLg

Stream the song here: https://hypeddit.com/jdead/harbour-1

New EP ROOTS will host seven original tracks, as well as a range of additional remixes only to be found on the physical release. Taking influence from sources as disparate as Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle and Fear Factory, expect to hear elements of †††, Gary Numan, The Black Queen, and Bad Omens. It will be j:dead's first release since their triumphant set at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany.

 j:dead is the multifaceted project of solo creator Jay Taylor. Casting influences across alternative and electronic genres, Taylor captures darkened club-ready hits alongside powerful and driven vocal hooks. Since the project's inception, j:dead have released and collaborated on over 50 tracks spanning the dark electro scene, often finding the balance between melody and aggression with the constant recognition of a distinctive voice wielded by the creator himself. 

j:dead online:

Instagram | Facebook

Photo Credit: Kieran Dhanjal

London noise-punks Muscle Vest have shared a music video for brand new single 'Glue Trap'. Recorded and mixed by the band's own Charlie Webb (guitar) and mastered by Alan Douches (Converge, Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan), the one-minute and nine-second pandemonium of a track is "An autobiographical spurt of hardcore laying bare one of many perils of renting in the UK", according to vocalist Dave Rogers. 

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/V5_mT0R8ekU

Stream the song on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/40k18m0

'Glue Trap' is the final piece of a disordered puzzle: Threeeps, the band's debut vinyl release, is due out on 24th November via Prank Monkey Records. As the name indicates, the record is a compilation of Muscle Vest's three EPs released to date, with two additional tracks - 'Glue Trap' and 'God Doesn't Love You'.

On 'Glue Trap', the band comment: "The song was inspired by an event unfortunately experienced by our singer, Dave Rogers. The horrifying discovery of a glue trap set by a previous tenant and left unattended under a kitchen cabinet perfectly summarises the experience of renting in the UK. And as with most summaries, it’s quick. It’s just under 1:10 of thrashing hardcore and duelling feedback that batters the senses and leaves them wanting more."

Formed in late 2018, London noise-punks Muscle Vest carve songs out of chaos. Crawling out from the filth is hard hitting, heavy music about the strain of living through a time where everything seems to get worse every year for everyone. They have released three EPs: Human Resources, Live Laugh Loathe and Hot Hot Hate, as well as a split single with Struggles With Syntax titled 'God Doesn’t Love You'. 

Muscle Vest are known for their blistering, unpredictable live show. This has been honed from years of playing in London, around Southern UK, and from various jaunts around the country (such as the Hot Hot Hate tour which saw them play 10 dates between Bristol and Edinburgh). In August 2023 the band made their international debut in front of a packed house at Supersonic in Paris. 

The band’s newest track 'Glue Trap', recorded and mixed by the band’s own Charlie Webb (guitar) and mastered by Alan Douches (Converge, Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan), marks a new era in the band’s development where they have taken production in-house.

Debut vinyl release Threeeps, a compilation of the band's work to date, will be released on 24th November.

Muscle Vest online:
Instagram | Facebook | Website

Threeeps track list:

Side A:
1. The Commuter
2. Scab
3. That'll Do, Pig
4. Pinch Me
5. Creepy Crawlie
6. Stray
7. A Slow Death
8. Blissbucket

Side B:
1. The Slaughtered Lamb
2. Don't Dream
3. Solitary Life
4. Fun Imaginative Murders
5. God Doesn't Love You
6. Glue Trap

Photo Credit: Declan Blackall Photography

A warm and exuberant new Plini chapter arrives today, with the talented Australian guitarist and songwriter announcing his brand new EP Mirage due out on 1st December, accompanied by a vibrant new single and music video 'Ember'.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/716ln-hgxbc
Pre-order Mirage EP here: https://www.plini.co

Armed with the Plini trademarks - sleek, dazzling and refreshing modernity, 'Ember' is an undulating journey of euphoric progressive rock and cascading instrumentals, with long-time collaborators Simon Grove on bass and Chris Allison on drums. 
 
Plini comments: "'Ember' was chosen as the first single because it's probably the most "normal" of the songs (if this sounds surprising, you may want to brace yourself for the EP). And it was an absolute treat to spend a couple of days at Dovecote shooting the music video!" 

Hinting at what is to come on his upcoming new EP Mirage, 'Ember' follows on from Plini's recent 2023 single '11 Nights' while also kickstarting an exciting new chapter for the beloved Sydney maestro.

With five new tracks lying in wait on Mirage later this year, a collection which will also feature live strings, piano, oud and a guitar solo from Animals As Leaders' Tosin Abasi alongside Plini's dexterous performance, there is plenty of sonic reverie still to come as 2023 begins to draw to a close. And with his biggest Australian tour production to date taking place earlier this year, the sky and perhaps even the galaxy is barely the limit for Plini as he ventures into a new creative phase, beckoning you along for the ride.

Plini adds, "Writing for the EP began shortly after the release of Impulse Voices at the end of 2020, while Australia was still in lockdown. The majority of the production was finished by the end of 2021, but once touring resumed, the project had to be put on the shelf for a little while, after deciding that it would be better to give it the attention it deserved than try to finish it in between flights and tours and other commitments. The wait was worth it (at least in my opinion) - couldn't be happier with how it turned out!" 

After two years of waiting patiently, Plini sprang back into action in 2022, with back-to-back sold out headline tours of Australia, India and Scandinavia, festival appearances in Australia, UK, Germany and Portugal, and performing in some of Australia’s finest theatres supporting Northlane. 
 
Always delivering mind-bending musicality from all angles, Plini has previously released two full length albums, 2016's Handmade Cities and 2020's Impulse Voices, as well as multiple EPs, singles and contributing credits with various other artists. Nominated for Live Guitarist of the Year in 2018 at the National Live Music Awards, Plini has also previously toured alongside Sleep Token, Periphery and TesseracT.

Plini is currently on tour in North America, catch him at the following dates: 

Oct 28: BC Vancouver Rickshaw Theater [Sold Out]
Oct 30: WA Seattle The Crocodile [Sold Out]
Oct 31: OR Portland Star Theater [Sold Out]
Nov 02: CA Roseville Goldfields 
Nov 03: CA Ventura Ventura Music Hall
Nov 04: CA Anaheim House Of Blues * Supporting Periphery
Nov 05: AZ Tucson 191 Toole
Nov 07: TX San Antonio The Rock Box
Nov 08: TX Houston White Oak Music Hall 
Nov 10: FL Jacksonville Underbelly
Nov 11: FL Winter Park Conduit
Nov 12: FL Ft Lauderdale Culture Room
Nov 14: GA Athens 40 Watt
Nov 15: NC Raleigh Lincoln Theater
Nov 16: PA Philadelphia Union Transfer
Nov 17: PA Harrisburg XL Live
Nov 18: MA Worcester The Palladium * Supporting Periphery
Nov 19: NY Brooklyn Warsaw 

Plini online:
https://www.facebook.com/Plini
https://www.instagram.com/plini/
https://www.youtube.com/plinimusic
https://twitter.com/plinirh

Mirage EP Tracklisting

1. The Red Fox
2. Five Days of Rain
3. Still Life
4. Aqua Vista
5. Ember

More information on Plini:

Plini composes, plays guitar, records, produces and manages his unique brand of instrumental progressive rock all from a bedroom studio.

His critically-acclaimed debut album Handmade Cities was voted #5 in Guitar World Magazine’s “20 best guitar albums of the decade,” and hailed by Steve Vai as “one of the finest, forward thinking, melodic, rhythmically and harmonically deep, evolution of rock/metal instrumental guitar records I have ever heard.” Routinely mentioned in “best guitarist” lists, Plini was named #4 in the “Top 10 best prog guitarists in the world today” by Music Radar in early 2020. Plini also made Prog mag (UK)'s top 100 musicians of all time list.

Over the last few years, Plini has toured the world supporting bands like Animals As Leaders, Periphery, Tesseract and Intervals, as well as playing festivals and headlining his own tours all over North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and India. In 2018, Plini was the first instrumental act ever to play the legendary Download Festival in the UK.

Plini was a special guest instructor at “Vai Academy” in 2019, alongside Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Devin Townsend, and despite being entirely self-taught, he has been invited to give masterclasses at some of the most prestigious contemporary music colleges in the world, including Berklee College of Music, Musician’s Institute (USA), BIMM (UK), and JMC Academy (Australia).

Plini has a signature guitar with Strandberg Guitars, signature guitar amp software with Neural DSP, and endorsement deals with Yahama Music, Dunlop, D’Addario and Fractal Audio.

Scottish post-punk quartet Tijuana Bibles have released their new single 'Unknown'. The track is taken from their long-awaited debut album Free Milk, due for release on 8th December via Button Up Records.

Stream 'Unknown' here: https://tijuanabibles.ffm.to/unknown

Pre-order/pre-save Free Milk here: https://tijuanabibles.ffm.to/freemilk

The band comment on the new single: 

"'Unknown' is a bittersweet lament about losing a friend, a relationship ending, or growing apart from someone close to you. Reminiscing and wondering if they are still out there, somewhere, and what might've been if things were different - all part of the great unknown."

Tijuana Bibles will celebrate the release of their new album with a special headline show, set to take place on 16th December at Glasgow's King Tut's.

Uproarious, hellacious, all-killer hooks and chaotic dissonance. Tijuana Bibles come careering from the studio with reckless abandon and an immersive new agenda. 
 
The quartet's hotly-anticipated new material is propulsive, volatile and unencumbered by any expectation of what fans may have come to expect. 
 
Twelve warped hymns for the disenchanted generation. Themes of frustration, anxiety and isolation find escape in the dark underbelly of a desolate city. Vulnerable inner moments transform, rewild, taking aim at the political glitterati as melodies violently explode into the abyss. New music for the new world… This is the sound of modern dystopia.

Tipped by Jack Saunders as a Next Wave on BBC Radio 1’s Indie Show, Tijuana Bibles have captivated global airwaves, with support from KEXP (US), KCRW (US), and Mexico’s biggest rock radio station IBERO 90.9, who included their single 'Pariah' in their Top 5 songs of the year. 
 
Anyone that has bore witness to their live shows will attest that Tijuana Bibles' unique alchemy and charisma translates perfectly from the studio into the realm of live performance.
 
Packing out basement venues from Paris to Poznań, guerrilla gigs on the streets of their travels have punctuated huge festival appearances at Reading & Leeds, Isle Of Wight Festival, Spain’s Kutxa Kultur, Germany’s Reeperbahn and Austin, Texas’ SXSW. 

Acclaimed singles 'Human Touch' and 'Stateless' lit the fuse on Tijuana Bibles' debut album - the anthemic new single 'The Wave' is about to launch it into the stratosphere.

Tijuana Bibles are:

Tony Costello - vocals 
Danny Costello - bass
James Brannigan - guitar 
Mikey Dornan - drums 

For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/tijuanabiblesofficial
https://twitter.com/Tijuana_Bibles
https://www.instagram.com/tijuanabibles

Free Milk tracklist:

1: Stateless
2: Pariah
3: Three is a Cult
4: The Wave
5: Architect
6: Free Milk      
7: Unknown
8: Human Touch
9: Mothman
10: Slip into the Leather
11: Billionairhead
12: Pill

The award-winning, genre-busting RADAR Festival returns, with the first wave of bands announced for the 2024 edition.

Held at Manchester's O2 Victoria Warehouse on 26-28th July, RADAR Festival 2024 will include Swedish fusion sensations Dirty Loops, Australian progressive guitar maestro Plini, rap rock hard-hitters Oxymorrons, UK metal favourites Conjurer, modern metalcore heavyweights Caskets, Danish progressive metal troupe VOLA and many more.

In Dirty Loops, Plini, and VOLA, RADAR welcome three massive alumni from previous editions. In addition, Heart of a Coward return from headlining Stage Two in 2023 for a well-deserved main stage appearance, and Caskets and Conjurer have been revealed as Stage Two headliners.

This special early announcement coincides with RADAR returning to their early bird pricing for a limited time. All tickets will be available to fans on RADAR's mailing list as a thank you for being such an integral part of the engaged community and go live on Saturday 28th October at 9am.

Sign-up here: RADARfestival.co.uk to get access.

Festival co-organiser Catherine Jackson-Smith comments:

"I’m not sure I can hide my delight at Dirty Loops returning to RADAR Festival. Musically, when we booked them in 2022, it was a defining moment for RADAR Festival, signalling that we were prepared to push boundaries.  I won’t ever deny they are one of my favourite bands so I can't wait to see them in our stunning new venue for an even bigger party!

"It’s never easy is it?! We’ve been booking bands right up to the last moment of this announcement, some didn’t make it and we’ll be following up with more bands soon! I know people will be blown away with what we've booked, it's worth waiting for!"

Full list of bands announced today:

Dirty Loops
Plini
VOLA
Heart of a Coward
Caskets
Conjurer
Oxymorrons
Ithaca
Graphic Nature
Siamese
The Intersphere
The Omnific
Future Static
Cestra
ADHARMA
Seething Akira
Giant Walker
Ikonik

For festival tickets and more:
RADARFestival.co.uk 

RADAR - the UK's most exciting new progressive music festival - moved to Manchester for its 2023 edition, the third iteration of the festival.

RADAR Festival 2023 was a smash success, with Friday headliners Sleep Token joining Periphery (Sunday) and Igorrr (Saturday) among a host of the best from the UK progressive underground and globally. 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.   

RADAR capped their intensely impressive 2022 by winning the Best New Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards on 6th December in Manchester.

They have now been nominated for Best Small Festival and Best Metropolitan Festival at 2023'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.

RADAR Festival is all about pushing boundaries - this year introducing fresh genres to the lineup and stages - and this is just the beginning. 

For more information:
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Dead Icarus, the new project of former Atreyu lead vocalist and Gold-selling artist Alex Varkatzas, have shared their new single / video 'So I Set Myself On Fire', streaming now via MNRK Heavy.

Check out the video  here: https://youtu.be/gMJARNPifmg

“'So I Set Myself on Fire' is about finding inspiration in darkness," Varkatzas says. "It's about letting your inspiration consume you so fully that it changes you into something else  - a driven, unstoppable force of nature."

Dead Icarus previously shared the videos for the new singles 'The Vultures Circle' and 'Sellout'. 

A staple of Ozzfest in the mid-2000s with two gold albums, Atreyu are one of the defining bands of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, alongside groups like Avenged Sevenfold and Lamb Of God. Metalcore classics like The Curse and A Death-Grip on Yesterday were powered by Alex’s distinctive scream. 

The band has officially signed a worldwide deal with MNRK Heavy, with a full-length project slated for Spring 2024.

For more information:
https://www.instagram.com/deadicarusmusic
https://www.tiktok.com/@deadicarusmusic
https://www.youtube.com/@deadicarusmusic

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