RADAR Festival 2025: final headliner, Bob Vylan, plus Vukovi, As December Falls, and four more acts announced

The award-winning, genre-busting RADAR Festival is proud to unveil its final headliner for the 2025 edition, plus a further six world-beating acts, alongside day splits and afterparties.

Joining the previously-announced headliners, darkwave heavyweight Carpenter Brut and metalcore legends UNDERØATH, are the unbeatable Bob Vylan.

Also in today's announcement:

Vukovi
As December Falls
Dream State
Lastelle
Shelf Lives
Artio

Each day will continue long into the night, with the addition of two incredible afterparty acts: unique French electronic musician The Algorithm will perform a DJ set on the Friday, and The 900, the famed Tony Hawk Pro Skater cover band, will close the festival on Sunday. The final afterparty is still TBA.

Co-founder and co-organiser of RADAR, Catherine Jackson-Smith, comments: "Our final headliner is the unstoppable Bob Vylan. 2025 feels like a time of uncertainty when many communities we belong to or guardian feel uneasy. There’s a choice: to carry on passively or to stand up and speak out. Few bands in today’s music scene do this as powerfully and unapologetically as Bob Vylan. With razor-sharp lyricism and an electrifying live show, they don’t just perform—they provoke, challenge, and inspire. Their music is a rallying cry, embodying the same passion and urgency that we at RADAR stand for in these climates. This isn’t just music; this is a movement, and it’s personal.   

"Added to the bands announced today are those that we’ve admired for years, VUKOVI.  I’ve been a fan of them for a long time, so to bring them to the RADAR stage is a booking that has put the cherry on the top for me. This year is going to be fun." 

Full list of bands announced so far:

Carpenter Brut (2025 UK Exclusive)
UNDERØATH (2025 UK Festival Exclusive)
Bob Vylan
Zeal & Ardor
As December Falls
Normandie
Yonaka
Vukovi
Intervals
As Everything Unfolds
Novelists
Allt
Lake Malice
David Maxim Micic
Dream State
GHØSTKID
Oni
Pintglass
Shelf Lives
Future Palace
Floya
Tropic Gold
Avralize
Artio
Cyan Kicks
Tiberius
Arch Echo
Lastelle
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. 

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