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Bloodstock Festival confirms four more bands

Four more bands have been announced for next year’s Bloodstock Festival!

As Halloween approaches and Autumn rolls in, the organisers of the UK’s biggest metal festival have revealed four more amazing bands for the festival’s Ronnie James Dio Stage!

PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS will be bringing their much lauded A Vulgar Display of PANTERA set to the Ronnie James Dio Stage on Friday, whilst gothic-doom overlords PARADISE LOST will perform their fifth album Draconian Times in its entirety on the Saturday!

Also confirmed for next year’s billing is LIFE OF AGONY and heavy metal royalty DIAMOND HEAD, both will play on the festival’s Sunday main stage billing.

The newly announced bands join Friday night headliners Devin Townsend as well as SKINDRED, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, JINJER, VIO-LENCESACRED REICH, GLORYHAMMER, DARK TRANQUILITY, and BUTCHER BABIES. The remaining two headline acts and many more bands performing over the weekend will be announced in due course.

Bloodstock Festival 2020 will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire from 6th-9th August 2020. Early bird tickets are available now and can be purchased here.

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James Weaver

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