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Shred Fest 2027 is a multi-band extreme metal tour that brings five bands from Europe and the UK to The Underworld in London, led by the German act Obscura.

Shred Fest is an annual touring festival that picks a different continent each year and gathers extreme metal bands noted for their technical skill. Earlier editions took place in North America and Australia, and the 2027 edition moves to Europe and the United Kingdom for what the organisers describe as the most ambitious run of the series so far. The London date takes place at The Underworld, a venue that hosts concerts and shows in the capital.

Obscura, the headline act, is a German technical death metal band from Munich, formed in 2002. Its debut album, Retribution, appeared on Relapse Records in 2006, and the band's name pays tribute to Gorguts'album of the same name. Pestilence, a Dutch technical death metal band formed in Enschede in 1986, released its first album, Malleus Maleficarum, in 1988 through Roadrunner Records.

The bill also includes Cryptic Shift, an English extreme metal group formed in Leeds in 2013, whose first album, Visitations From Enceladus, came out in 2020. Thus, a progressive and melodic death metal act from Denmark, and DVRK, a French band, complete the line-up of this package, which is aimed at fans of the genre who follow the bands from start to finish.