Radar Festival Announces Second Headliner UNDERØATH and More

Radar Festival Announces Second Headliner UNDERØATH and More

The award-winning, genre-busting RADAR Festival has announced the second headliner for the 2025 edition, plus a further twelve stellar bands.

Joining the previously-announced headliner, darkwave legend Carpenter Brut, are metalcore legends UNDERØATH.

Also announced today are:

Yonaka
As Everything Unfolds
Novelists
Allt
Lake Malice
Oni
Tropic Gold
Avralize
Arch Echo
Ġenn
Mother Vulture
Deity’s Muse

Co-founder and co-organiser of RADAR, Joe James, comments: "UNDERØATH! There is a lot for me to unpack here.

"Announce one of your all-time favourite bands! Check ✓
Have them close out the next edition of the festival! Check ✓
Book them for a 2025 UK Festival exclusive! ✓

"We’re pretty stoked to announce a band that has meant so much to so many people growing up. A band we’ve been after for a few years and finally made it work with a speculative email.

"Alongside UNDERØATH, we can announce some of the hottest bands of the moment, creating a weekend that you won’t want to miss out on. Yonaka, Novelists, As Everything Unfolds, Allt, Lake Malice, Oni, Tropic Gold, Avralize, Arch Echo, Ġenn, Mother Vulture, and Deity's Muse.

"We’re nearly there with RADAR 5.0 - a few bands left to come on 3rd March with day splits, then it’s time to think about heading to Manchester!"

Full list of bands announced so far:

Carpenter Brut (2025 UK Exclusive)
UNDERØATH (2025 UK Festival Exclusive)
Zeal & Ardor
Normandie
Yonaka
Intervals
As Everything Unfolds
Novelists
Allt
Lake Malice
David Maxim Micic
GHØSTKID
Oni
Pintglass
Future Palace
Floya
Tropic Gold
Avralize
Cyan Kicks
Tiberius
Arch Echo
Ġenn
Air Drawn Dagger
Continents
Hero In Error
Waterlines
Mother Vulture
Deity’s Muse

Get your RADAR Festival tickets here: www.radarfestival.co.uk/tickets

Alongside the acts announced, RADAR's commitment to a musical and gaming paradise continues: their music & gaming market will return. Expected to be wowed by a retro arcade, the best new instruments and music tech, and many more besides.

Also demonstrating their commitment to new bands, RADAR will continue to donate a portion of ticket sales proceeds to Music Venue Trust and Save Our Scene's Liveline Fund, in order to support grassroots music venues.

RADAR - the UK's most exciting new 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.

Joining the list were RADAR 2024's Friday headliners - synth royalty The Midnight, making their UK festival debut. 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 saw 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.

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