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Rain City Doom Fest 2025 Announces Complete Lineup

Posted in Whathaveyou on October 29th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

Spoiler alert: it’s rad.

Admittedly, that was the case in August, when this year’s Rain City Doom Fest — set for Dec. 12-13 in Seattle, Washington — made its initial announcement, with Acid King and Ragana and Merlock and sundry others confirmed at that time. But more of a good thing is a better thing, and with the complete picture of how those two days will look, it’s not hard to imagine seeing the bill and wanting to make the trip. Wherever you might be traveling from, from Mizmor to Kadabra, Hippie Death Cult, Sorcia, Sun Crow, Serial Hawk, Glasghote, Ragana and the relocated-from-the-desert Red Mesa, you’ll not be likely to find a richer sampling of the Pacific Northwest’s native underground — plus Acid King and Electric Citizen, from CA and Ohio, respectively — and if you wanted to cap the utter awfulness of 2025 with something decidedly less than awful, well, here you go.

To answer the question no one asked, no, I’m not likely to be there, but it still makes for a welcome escapist daydream for my afternoon, and for that I’m grateful. I’m not sure it needs to be said, but the below comes from social media, and I’ve left the atsign profile tags intact in case you’re on your phone and can use them to magically transport yourself to the bands’ pages or whatever. I assure you, I have no clue how any of that works, on the rare occasion it does. Killer bill, regardless.

Check it:

RAIN CITY DOOM FEST 2025 – Full line-up officially announced!

Ticket link: https://app.opendate.io/e/rain-city-doom-fest-december-12-2025-625223

@raincitydoomfest
December 12 + 13 at @elcorazonseattle / @funhouseseattle
2 stages | 18 bands | 2 nights of DOOM
2-day passes (limited) and single day tix on sale NOW! 🎟️🔗 in bio

@acidkingrocks
@raganaofficial
@whollydoomedblackmetal
@electriccitizenband
@tithe.pdx
@hippiedeathcultband
@kadabra_band
@serialhawk
@reburied_death
@sorciaband
@sun.crow.rock.heavy
@glasghote_pdx
@mother_root
@redmesaband
@merlocklives
@heldscalla_band
@ravine.pdx

Also, a very special Ozzy tribute set by Wizards of Oz feat. members of @witch_ripper, @un.vibes, @filthiseternal and @girlsnfnroses

Presented by @metalshopkisw_
Poster by @_brainkim

https://wl.eventim.us/event/rain-city-doom-fest-2025/660391?afflky=ElCorazon
https://www.instagram.com/raincitydoomfest/

Ragana, Desolation’s Flower (2025)

<a href="https://ragana.bandcamp.com/album/desolations-flower">Desolation’s Flower by Ragana</a>

Acid King, Live at Desertfest Belgium, Oct. 19, 2025

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Rain City Doom Fest 2025 Announces Initial Lineup

Posted in Whathaveyou on August 11th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

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: