BLOODSTOCK this year offers the strongest line up to date, with headline sets from BEHEMOTH, MACHINE HEAD and ALICE COOPER as well as dozens of exclusive appearances from the top names in metal.
The main RONNIE JAMES DIO stage and the SOPHIE LANCASTER stage boasts some of metal’s biggest names, both international and homegrown. But no less exciting is the NEW BLOOD stage, which offers emerging talent the chance to play an internationally renown festival. The METAL 2 THE MASSES initiative
works hard scouring the length and breadth of the country to discover
the UK’s best new talent, hosting heats where bands will compete for a
coveted spot at BLOODSTOCK.
This year the quality of the unsigned bands on offer is outstanding, resulting in the NEW BLOOD stage’s
most exciting line up to date. With sold out finals up and down the
country in 200 - 600 capacity venues, as well as reaching over the
borders to include talent from abroad - plus rewarding homegrown talent
with the opportunity to play partner festivals abroad, WACKEN and METALCAMP, the future of metal has never looked so bright, and with this latest batch there may well be a future BLOODSTOCK headliner in amongst them.
Bloodstock’s Simon Hall can’t help being excited about the talent on display:
“This year’s Metal 2 The Masses has blown me
away with the diversity and talent that is turning heads within the UK
underground scene. The quality of the New Blood Stage is undeniable and
I can’t wait to unleash these bands on Bloodstock along with some more
to come in the next week or so.”
On the Friday, EXILE THE TRAITOR bring thier melodic death metal to the NEW BLOOD stage, joined by Brummie death metallers KATALEPTIC, Norwich thrashers KILLER HURTS, Romanian experimentalists KREPUSKUL, Manchester bruisers MY WOODEN PILLOW, Liverpool’s SCARE TATICS and WALKING THEO from Selby.
Saturday sees Welsh trad-metallers APOLLYON join midlands doomsters COSMIC VORTEX OF DOOM and all the way from Croatia, RATHER, while the Sunday offers Nottingham glamsters AIRSTRYKE, Cypriot death/thrash/groove combo BLYND, Welsh sludge monsters HAKIN, Nottingham Trash-Merchants INCINERY and Preston Industrialists SA-DA-KO.
Whatever you do, make sure you stick your head into the NEW BLOOD stage and support these incredible bands - you may well discover the next big thing!
BLOODSTOCK PACKAGES SELLING OUT FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!
With just 5 weeks to go we’ve already sold out of a
some of our Serpents Lair ‘VIP’ packages in record time, we’ve just a
handful of campervan plots left and have already guaranteed our highest
attendance in the festival’s history so are heading towards reaching
capacity. Don’t leave it to chance and risk missing out on the biggest
metal event on UK soil.
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKET TO BLOODSTOCK 2012 ?
RONNIE JAMES DIO STAGE
BEHEMOTH - MACHINE HEAD - ALICE COOPER
TESTAMENT - DIMMU BORGIR - DIO DISCIPLES - ANVIL - WATAIN
PARADISE LOST - HATEBREED - SANCTUARY - ICED EARTH -
SEPULTURA CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - EVILE - MAYHEM - NILE - MOONSORROW -
GRAND MAGUS - FREEDOM CALL - BLACK DAHLIA MURDER - CHTHONIC
CROWBAR - BENEDICTION - I AM I - KOBRA & THE LOTUS
LastFM
SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE
ALCEST - ORANGE GOBLIN - ANAAL NATHRAKH
HEADCHARGER - WINTERFYLLETH - DEMONIC RESURRECTION -
EASTERN FRONT - ANCIENT ASCENDANT - SIGHT OF EMPTINESS - PRIMITAI -
PYTHIA - CRIMES OF PASSION - SATURNIAN - BLOODSHOT DAWN - RE-ARMED -
GONOREAS - COMMANDER IN CHIEF - RISING DREAM - INFERNAL TENEBRA -
NOCTEFERIA - MARIONETTE- FURYON - DERISION - BATALLION -
WITCHSORROW - DRIPBACK - SAVAGE MESSIAH - FLAYED DISCIPLE - VIKING SKULL - SWEET SAVAGE - DEATH VALLEY KNIGHTS -
PRITCHARD Vs DAINTON - STEVE HUGHES
NEW BLOOD STAGE
DOOMED - GONE TIL WINTER – HURON - FALLEN FATE -
REIGN OF FURY – DREAMCATCHER - REFLECTION IN EXILE - INFERNAL CREATION –
CAMBION – WARHORSE – MERCILESS FAIL – STORMBORN – TEMPUS FUSION –
WRETCHED SOUL – A THOUSAND ENEMIES – SHATTERED SKIES - EXILE THE TRAITOR
- KILLER HURTS - KREPUSKUL - MY WOODEN PILLOW - SCARE TACTICS - WALKING
THEO - APOLLYON - COSMIC VORTEX OF DOOM - RATHER -AIRSTRYKE - BLYND -
HAKIN - INCINERY - SA-DA-KO
BLOODSTOCK 2012 TICKETS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FROM 62 HIGH STREET HMV STORES NATIONWIDE TODAY!
9th - 12th Aug 2012
Catton Hall, Walton on Trent, Derbyshire, DE12 8LN
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