Rain City Doom Fest 2025 Announces Initial Lineup
Granted, you had me at Acid King, and that’s pretty much always going to be the case forever and into perpetuity. HOWEVER, even putting aside that singularity-type draw, to have Witch Mountain, the black metallers Ragana, Electric Citizen (who I just saw and were killer), Hippie Death Cult (get well soon, Laura, sidelined for now with an unspecified health issue), Merlock (who I seem to recall seeing had new stuff in the works, including with a cello), Kadabra, Red Mesa (now at least partially relocated to the Pacific Northwest) and Glasghote, well, that’s a really good bill front to back.
This is just the first announcement for the Seattle-based Rain City Doom Fest 2025. I assume Sorcia will be added as they’re affiliated with the fest and are something of a house band, and there are others who’ve been regulars along the way, but yeah. I don’t know how much flights to Seattle are two weeks before Xmas, but this does very much make me want to find out.
Of course, there are no shortage of others in and around the region to fill out the bill, but whoever’s going to be added, I’d call this the proverbial killer start. I doubt I’ll get to see it — ain’t nobody banging down my door to bring me to Seattle for a thing, and that’s reasonable — but maybe you will, and that’s pretty rad.
Info follows as cobbled from social media:
RAIN CITY DOOM FEST 2025!
December 12 + 13 at @elcorazonseattle / @funhouseseattle
2 stages | 18 bands | 2 nights of DOOM
1st round of bands announced today, full lineup to be announced in September! 2-day passes on sale NOW for $40 + fees: https://wl.eventim.us/event/rain-city-doom-fest-2025/660391?afflky=ElCorazon
First wave of bands:
ACID KING
RAGANA
WITCH MOUNTAIN
ELECTRIC CITIZEN
HIPPIE DEATH CULT
KADABRA
GLASGHOTE
RED MESA
MERLOCK
…AND MANY MORE!
Poster by @_brainkim
https://wl.eventim.us/event/rain-city-doom-fest-2025/660391?afflky=ElCorazon
https://www.instagram.com/raincitydoomfest/
They had me at Acid King too.
Booked for this one. Seattle in December is a cheap trip. Apparently dark nights, wet wheather ins’t a huge draw.