# @rocksound on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-08-24T15:28:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rock Sound (@rocksound) — https://gondola.cc/rocksound

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Enter Shikari, Reading Festival 2025

REVIEW: In the current climate outside of these festival walls, politically and environmentally, an Enter Shikari set feels more necessary than ever before. 
The band are ingrained in the DNA of Reading at this point, but in their latest appearance on the Main Stage, their abrasive anthems of empathy and community feel even more indispensable than usual. 
The towering heft of ‘Juggernauts’ is still utter pit-fuel, but its message of not letting this world fall even deeper into disrepair, first uttered over 16 years ago, feels all the more terrifyingly real now. Whilst the disgust that bolsters ‘Anaesthetist’ is even more bile-drenched when viewed through the lens of aid being withheld across the world, and not just the subject of its privatisation at home. 
You can clearly see how heavy this reality is weighing on Rou Reynolds. Still, every time he looks out at the thousands assembled for their display, the doubt and worry melt away into quiet joy. Almost like the hope he has for a better tomorrow is being reinstated in real time, a reminder that there are others here who want to fight the same good fight. 
“This song changed our lives forever,” he bellows at the head of a tectonic ‘Sorry You’re Not A Winner’, that iconic clap showing even more how unified this crowd is, before ‘A Kiss For The Whole World x’ chalks this up as yet another feather in the band’s hat. A vital, vicious and valiant indicator that we will always be stronger together. 
And in these uncertain times, having each other’s backs is the very least we can do.

✏️ Jack Rogers
📷 Corinne Cumming

#entershikari #readingfestival #rock #metal

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