Radar Festival (Day Three): Humanity’s Last Breath and Leprous Bulldoze Manchester [Photos]

Sitting in the shadow of Manchester United’s gargantuan Old Trafford stadium is the O2 Victoria Warehouse, which, for three days last week, played host to a slew of bands as Radar Festival returned for its second event. Still a relative newcomer to the UK festival circuit, the 2024 iteration of the event saw Caskets, The Midnight, Conjurer, Tesseract, Humanity’s Last Breath and Leprous head the line-up across the two stages.

Despite a couple of line-up alterations, Radar Festival made sure it was going to sign off with a bang as Humanity’s Last Breath and Leprous wrap up the weekend’s activities. The Neural DSP: Archtype Stage kicks off with French alt-metal/metalcore outfit Ashen bringing some chunky riffs, while Australian instrumental outfit The Omnific offering the day something different. More solo guitar work saw Oxymorrons guitarist Mike Dawes showcase his talents to an appreciative crowd while Sungazer shifted the tempo and mood with their complex jazz set. Adding a splash of emotion to proceedings on the last day, Welsh favourites Holding Absence brought their powerful anthems to Radar before stage headliners Leprous wrapped things up with a suitably epic set consisting of part band/part fan-selected choices. A huge set from the headliner to bring Radar to a suitably massive conclusion.

Shifting to the Sneak Stage, it was over to local outfit Atheana and progressive-pop outfit Adharma to kick off proceedings, both delivering an impressive start to the day. Travelling over from Melbourne, Australia, progressive metalcore quintet Future Static delivered a set packed with passion and crunchy riffs, showing exactly why they’re one of the breakthrough acts on the Aussie metal scene. Pintglass added a dash of brutal, straight-from-the-streets hardcore to the day with their laddish attitude, tongue-in-cheek humour and thuggish tunes.

A complete contrast to this, Norwegian death-pop/punk faves Blood Command put smiles on the faces of the Radar crowd with their chaotic stage antics, much-appreciated humour and hook-filled tunes. It was left to the haunting, suffocating tech/deathcore of Humanity’s Last Breath to bring this incredible weekend to a close with a crushing headline set. What a way to end the weekend with a performance that, for those lucky enough to witness, sent a chill down their spines.

We sent our photographer, Katie Probert Photography, down to cover Radar Festival 2024, and you can check out her awesome gallery below.

For more information on Radar and to get details of their 2025 event as soon as it is announced, head over to Radar Festival’s official website.

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