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RADAR Festival 2027 announces first wave of bands: Arcane Roots, Volumes, Unprocessed, and more

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RADAR Festival 2027 announces first wave of bands: Arcane Roots, Volumes, Unprocessed, and more

Joining Mick Gordon (headliner)’s world-first performance

RADAR will return, 30th July-1st August 2027

Moving to new location of Magna, Sheffield

The genre-busting, award-winning RADAR Festival has announced the first wave of bands for their 2027 edition.

Joining the previously-announced world-first headliner, the legendary Mick Gordon making his full set live debut, are the following:

Arcane Roots
Volumes (UK exclusive)
Unprocessed (UK exclusive)
Conjurer
Textures (UK exclusive)
Vower
Allt (UK exclusive)
Avralize (UK exclusive)
The Algorithm (special EU exclusive comeback show)
Karmanjakah (UK exclusive)
XO Armor
Revnoir
TheBoyShadow
Leeched
Every Hell
Cold Night For Alligators
Brightshade
Worn Out
Blood Lament
Your Personal Vendetta

Super Early Bird, Early Bird, and Tier 1 tickets are now SOLD OUT. Get your Tier 2 tickets here: www.radarfestival.co.uk

RADAR‘s Catherine Jackson-Smith comments: “RADAR ‘27 is already shaping up to be an unforgettable year.  We couldn’t let Mick Gordon play on his own, and since day one of RADAR we’ve lamented not being able to book Arcane Roots – so as soon as they came back from hiatus, we knew that was a match made in heaven.  Welcoming back old friends such as Unprocessed and Volumes, plus hosting returns from The Algorithm (live) and Textures, and introducing the RADAR community to some new bands we’ve discovered is exactly what we do best – and housing it at our new home is Magna is the perfect start to our next chapter.

We’re adding a new space: a RADAR pub! We don’t have time to run it ourselves – so we’ve outsourced that to a landlord collective calling themselves Pintglass.  The pub will be a separate unit, called The Geezer’s Arms, and we’ve been assured that they know what they’re doing. Bring on 2027; see you in Sheffield.”

RADAR will be moving to the very exciting new location of Magna, Sheffield. A former steelworks and now science adventure centre, the unique venue is the perfect new location for one of the UK’s favourite forward-thinking festivals.

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More information on RADAR Festival:

RADAR – the UK’s most exciting progressive music festival – will move to Sheffield’s Magna for its 2027 edition, the seventh 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 was 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.