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13 more bands confirmed for Bloodstock Festival

Bloodstock Festival have confirmed another 13 bands for this year’s festival!

Festival season is well and truly upon us, and the organisers of the UK’s biggest metal festival have confirmed another 13 bands for this year’s festival! First up, the next batch of this year’s Metal 2 The Masses have been confirmed slots on the Hobgoblin New Blood Stage.

Friday welcomes Stoke champions VULGORE, Leicester victors & hardcore fans SEVERN HELLS and Scottish prog metallers TURBYNE, who picked up a spot via their CD application. Saturday welcomes Polish heavyweights ASHBORN who clinched the top place in the Milton Keynes final, and Hitchin winners 13 and CD applicant winners, West Yorkshire-based VALAFAR. Recently reformed and now champions of the Norwich final, CRAWLBLIND join proceedings on Sunday. Also appearing that day are Burnley victors AUTOCRACY and Carlisle top dogs DRUDGE.

Also confirmed in today’s announcement are four more bands for this year’s Jagermeister StageDropping in on Friday are KAMIKAZE TEST PILOTS, ICED EARTH bassist Luke Appleton debuts his new solo acoustic material on Saturday, in support of his new EP released this March. Norwich bruisers ALPHA OMEGA will also perform on the Saturday whilst Leicestershire’s DAWN OF ANUBIS will perform on Sunday.

Standard weekend tickets are now available priced at £145 and can be purchased here.

Bloodstock Festival 2018 takes place on 9th-12th August 2018. 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.