14 more bands confirmed for Bloodstock Festival

May 22, 2018 James Weaver

14 more bands have been confirmed for Bloodstock Festival!

The UK has been graced with some glorious weather over the past week and as festival season is right around the corner, the organisers of the biggest metal festival in the UK have confirmed another 14 bands for this year’s event!

The bulk of today’s announcement is focused towards the Hobgoblin New Blood Stage as the first batch of winners from the annual Metal 2 The Masses competition have been confirmed! Joining the bill on Friday are hard rock trio PELUGION, who are victors of the Coventry heat, as well as Glasgow’s winners, A RITUAL SPIRIT. Landing a Saturday spot are Sheffield’s winners and symphonic metal seven-piece, AONIA, champions of the Reading heat, crust/grind/powerviolence trio, NEGATIVE THOUGHT PROCESS and Belfast’s groove metal victors, ORACLE. Rolling in on Sunday are Dublin top dogs, THIS PLACE HELL. Also appearing Sunday are power metallers SELLSWORD, who grabbed their slot via CD application. The CD applications were so good, Bloodstock has also added classic thrashers OBZIDIAN from the Midlands.

Alongside the first phase of M2TM winners, the first of the Jagermeister Stage bands have been announced! Expect to see THE HERETIC ORDER on the Friday who will perform at the festival on the back of the release of their second record, Evil Rising, which is set to be released in in June. Saturday brings a set from Belfast’s SINOSENCE and West Midlands hard rockers VOODOO SIOUX. Sunday features Aussie rockers TRUE BELIEVER, black metal experimentalists ABDUCTION and GEMMA FOX, frontwoman for prog metal outfit COLLIBUS, in her solo guise.