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Six more bands announced for Bloodstock Festival

Bloodstock Festival have confirmed another six bands! 

Bloodstock have locked down the last handful of Ronnie James Dio Main Stage and Sophie Lancaster Stage bands, as the Metal 2 The Masses finals roll through the UK to find the best of the grass roots to flesh out the New Blood Stage. The final main stage band are classic UK thrash squad, XENTRIX, who are set to play on Friday, whilst British death metallers KARYBDIS join the Sophie Stage bill.

A former winner of Metal 2 The Masses competition back in 2012, melodic metal crew CONTROL THE STORM have gone from strength to strength, and they will also perform on the Sophie Lancaster Stage on Friday, whilst Norwegian Viking metal pioneers, HELHEIM, land a Saturday set as do GUARDIANS OF TIME who also bag a Saturday slot on the Sophie Lancaster Stage. Bulgarian metalheads, ODD CREW also land a Saturday slot.

Bloodstock Festival takes place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 8th-11th August 2019. Standard weekend tickets, priced £145, are on sale now and can be purchased here. A limited number of day tickets will go on sale at the end of May.

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.