Bloodstock Festival reveal 15 new bands
Bloodstock Festival have revealed 15 new bands for this year’s festival!
Following announcements of the likes of DARK TRANQUILITY and DEFECTS were announced back in April, and MALEVOLENCE and others in May, 15 new bands for the UK’s biggest metal festival have been revealed.
Firstly, the festival have revealed a second batch of winners of this year’s Metal 2 The Masses programme who will be playing the Hobgoblin New Blood Stage. Essex champions EXISTENTIALIST are set to impress with their blackened death metal on Friday, alongside immersive goth rockers FYRESKY, who won the Kent heat. Milton Keynes victors VERMINTHRONE add some sludgecore flavour to Saturday’s bill, ably assisted by alt metal crew NOVACROW, who took first place for Merseyside. Joining them on Saturday are Stoke’s brutal metal vanquishers HEADPRESS, Norwich heavyweights COLLAPSE THE SKY, plus the kings of the London final, blistering thrashers IMPERIUM. Sunday welcomes Leicester’s conquerors SULVAIN, four devotees of NOLA grunge from Northampton, with more bands yet to be revealed as the MT2M finals continue.
In addition, the first round of bands who’ll be appearing on the Jagermeister Stage have been revealed. Friday brings Rotherham’s SWAMP COFFIN and Scottish rap/thrash n rollers CERTAIN DEATH. Saturday now includes doom/thrash/groove fans BOZ, riff-worshipping Dundee trio SOLAR SONS, and rock doomsters MASTER CHARGER, hailing from the blackest heart of the Midlands. If you’re still head-banging by Sunday, head over to catch balls to the wall, ground-shakers DEADLOCK SAINTS as well as some filthy sludge – by way of some grindcore, prog, psychedelia, and stoner doom too – from Limerick City’s TOOMS.
The festival are also asking attendees to wear an item of pink on the Sunday in acknowledgement of the phenomenal work of Sylvia Lancaster MBE, who sadly passed away in April this year.
Bloodstock Festival 2022 is set to take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire from 11th August – 14th August 2022. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.
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