Radar Festival announce first 15 bands

November 9, 2022 James Weaver

Radar Festival have announced the first bands for next year’s festival!

Following its blockbuster return this year, now, with a new location in Manchester, the new progressive music festival have announced the first 15 bands for 2023’s festival!

Leading the charge in the first wave is progressive metal juggernauts PERIPHERY, UK progressive heavyweights HAKEN (who will perform a special ten-year anniversary set of their album The Mountain) and German tech-metallers UNPROCESSED. Also confirmed to perform at next year’s festival are LOATHE, LONG DISTANCE CALLING, HEART OF A COWARD, TIDES FROM NEBULA, OWANE & JACK GARDINER, SUMR (who will make their first ever live show), GHOST IRIS, ALLT, PLAYGROUNDED and TIBERIUS.

Speaking about the first announcement, festival co-organiser Joe James says, “how many superlatives can you throw into a quote when you’ve booked one of your favourite bands?! We probably need quite a few to prefix our excitement in announcing that Periphery are to headline Radar Festival 2023! It is fair to say that they are one of the biggest and most interesting bands that are pushing our genre forward and they don’t play many UK festivals! We hope that festival lovers see that our first line-up drop is a statement of intent for 2023, with returning favourites and some awesome up-and-coming acts to discover. Radar 2023 is honestly going to blow you away.”