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Bloodstock Festival confirm another 18 bands

Bloodstock Festival have confirmed another whopping 18 bands for this year’s festival!

With the Ronnie James Dio Stage getting close to completion, another two bands have been confirmed for the main stage at this year’s festival! Firstly, Denver new wave thrashers HAVOK will perform at the festival on the back of this year’s Conformicide and tech-death maestros FALLUJAH will open the main stage on Saturday!

Alongside the two bands announced for the main stage, seven more bands have been confirmed for The Sophie Lancaster Stage. Norwich based thrashers SHRAPNEL, Leicester metal five-piece INTERNAL CONFLICT, stoner blues squad IRONRAT, London extremists, who feature members of AKERCOCKE and AGHASTCORPSING and heavy prog metallers OHHMS have been announced for this year’s festival. Also included in the announcement for the second stage are British/Chilean thrash/death outfit CRIMINAL and groove metallers GRAVIL.

With the annual Metal 2 The Masses finals taking place, phase two of this year’s finalists have been confirmed to take their place on the Hobgoblin New Blood Stage! For fans of LAMB OF GOD and WHITECHAPELSEEK SOLACE IN RUIN, melodic groovers MANTRA and Leicester victors BLOODOATH have been confirmed for this year’s festival. Also included in the announcement are Wolverhampton victors ASHEN CROWN, Southern metal riffers TITAN BREED, Gravesend winnters INFECTED DEAD, three piece progsters SOLAR SONS, Welsh outfit MALUM SKY and winners of the Norwegian Metal 2 The Masses final are VORBID.

Bloodstock Festival 2017 - June

Bloodstock Open Air Festival takes place at Catton Park, Derbyshire from August 10-13th 2017. A variety of ticket options and bundles are on sale now and can be purchased here.

For more information on the festival like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.

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