Rising brutal death metal and goregrind festival Offal Fest is returning for its third year for three days of all things brutal, death, gore and slam metal.
Taking place at Rebellion in Manchester, UK on 25th – 27th July 2025, the event will see the addition of Sunday, making it a three day festival with a pre-show held at the same venue on the Friday.
Headlining the Saturday will be New York brutal death metal legends Skinless, who will exclusively perform their 1998 debut Progression Towards Evil in its entirety.
Also hailing from New York, slam and brutal death metal pioneers Internal Bleeding will co-headline the Sunday. The band is often cited as one of the first bands to play slam death metal; an offshoot of death metal known for its focus on slow, chromatic breakdown riffs, known as slams. Veteran brutal death metal act Defeated Sanity is the other Sunday co-headliner.
Italian brutal death metal legends in Putridity will be coming back to the UK to play the Saturday and Begging For Incest will be on stage with their German slamming sickness after they were unable to perform at this year’s edition with a UK exclusive set.
Also joining on Saturday are Impurist who are a new UK death metal supergroup (featuring members of Gorerotted, Winterfylleth and Scatorgy) and Manchester slamming legends Chainsaw Castration.
Italian brutal death metallers Indecent Excision will also bring their brutality to Offal. Completing the stacked line-up are German sci-fi goregrind sickness Plasma with a UK exclusive show and UK death metal newcomers in Ancient Rivalry who will help start off the day as they return to Offal Fest.
Taking place on the Friday and at the same venue (Rebellion, Manchester), the pre-show will be full of insane UK metal talent culminating with a headline set by the legendary Mancunians in Foetal Juice.
Joining Foetal Juice are Offal Fest alumni; the brutal slamming duo 357 Homicide, scouse Death Metal supremacy Exhumation, Geordie death metal act Rumination (formerly Dawn Of Chaos), slamming newcomers Hacked Up and local grinders Nasty Git.
Early bird tickets sold out almost instantaneously during this year’s edition of the festival. Standard weekend, day and 3-day tickets are available via SeeTickets.
Rancid Offal Promotions, the organisers behind events such as Goremageddon and Offal Fest, said: “We’re insanely blessed to have the opportunity to contribute towards reviving the extreme metal music scene here in Manchester, after covid there was a huge hole left and we’re honoured to be able to work with amazing bands and can’t thank every single person enough that has bought a ticket for helping us to make our dreams a reality!”
Skinless added: “We are beyond excited to return to the UK with our friends in Internal Bleeding and playing Progression Towards Evil in its entirety for the first time ever!!”
