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  tealdeer and Surya to perform on the New Blood Stage alongside a line-up featuring Trivium, Machine Head, and Gojira This August, two rising forces in the UK metal underground – tealdeer and Surya – will take to the New Blood Stage at Bloodstock Open Air 2025, joining a stacked line-up headlined by Trivium, Machine Head, and Gojira. Following victorious runs in the Metal 2 The Masses initiative, both bands are ready to show the metal world why they’re ones to watch. tealdeer - Friday, 12:00 PM - New Blood Stage Hailing from the Midlands, tealdeer are bringing an eclectic, high-concept dose of chaos to Bloodstock. Their sound is an unpredictable blend of alternative metal, influenced by everything from System of a Down and Dance Gavin Dance to black-and-white horror films and sixteenth-century carnival music. It’s theatrical, intense, and utterly captivating. Drummer Rob Green captured the band’s shock on the night of their M2TM victory: “If you’d have told me, earlier this year, ...

  With only a little over 3 weeks to go until it’s time to make your annual pilgrimage to Catton Park for BLOODSTOCK, let’s reveal the final bands performing this year… and a few more details on other cool on site entertainments too! With this last wave of Metal 2 The Masses winners now locked in, 2025’s BLOODSTOCK lineup is complete — and it’s packed with underground heroes! From thrash to tech-death to ambient metalcore, these new additions to the Timothy Taylor New Blood Stage prove once again that the future of heavy music is in very safe and very loud hands. Friday welcomes Merseyside champions OGUN , pioneers of “Pyar Scouse Metal” and masters of melodic thrash chaos. Reformed in 2022, the Liverpool wrecking crew have gone from strength to strength, recently dropping their debut album World Of Hate — and they’re ready to tear up the stage. Joining them, Brighton’s victors DEVILHUSK channel disillusionment, self-doubt, and existential fury into a genre-smashing metalcore as...

  The UK might have been gripped by a heatwave of late, but BLOODSTOCK has some news that’s even hotter, revealing a whopping seventeen more bands set to take to the Timothy Taylor New Blood stage in just a few weeks time. With the winners of the grass-roots-supporting Metal 2 The Masses finals ranging from Somerset to Poland, your new favourite band might be lurking right here, so do check out any names you aren’t already familiar with and get excited for what’s in store! Without further ado, Friday welcomes Nottingham winners tealdeer , bending reality with their unpredictable alt-metal mash-up of SOAD, DGD, horror films, and carnival chaos - led by masked guitarist ODM (Ominous Deer Man). Joining them are Poland’s champs RASCAL , delivering lightning-fast twin lead speed metal soaked in classic heavy and thrash energy, and Kettering’s BACKSEAT JULIET , a glam-soaked rock ’n’ roll riot — loud, wild, and proudly over the top. Saturday brings London deathcore bruisers SYMBYOTE...

  There’s just 9 weekends ‘til your heavy metal brethren thunder their way onto Catton Park’s (un)holy lands for BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2025! So it’s about time to reveal the first batch of winners from this year’s hotly contested Metal 2 The Masses finals that have been taking place across the country, earning spots on the Timothy Taylor New Blood stage! These bands have battled their way through their local scenes to claim a coveted slot this August. Friday will see Belfast victors If It Bleeds , a five-piece delivering hardcore-infused metal in spades, make their mark on the New Blood Stage. Joining them are Sheffield champions ThunarWülf , fusing folk melodies, myths, and thunderous riffing; Manchester’s Vmbra , offering a fresh progressive rock/metal hybrid; Compounds , who won over the Southampton final with their punked up, melodic hardcore edge; and Baelfýr , the top dogs in Leicester, bringing a blackened death metal assault with accessible bite. Saturday welcomes Edinburgh’s...

  It’s only 11 weeks ‘til BLOODSTOCK! Day tickets are running VERY low (only Friday left!), and weekend tickets have also already sold out, so act now if you've been putting off getting your ticket! Friday day tickets cost £92 (+ booking fees) - with 37 bands playing that day (not including additional acts in VIP), that's just £2.48 per band! Maths fans, headbangers who snapped up standard weekend tickets have access to 125 bands over the festival, working out at a mere £1.59 per band (£1.40 if you bought an early bird - definitely worth getting in quickly once 2026 tickets go on sale in August!). Buy tickets in the ticket store . There are still more bands for 2025 to announce, but there’s plenty more to BLOODSTOCK than just bands, so here’s some info about some of the non-band entertainment you can look forward to over the festival. And did someone mention fancy dress? First though, did you take advantage of the special 20% off discount code BOA20 with EMP to get yourself kit...

  It’s showtime! In honour of it being Halloween week, BLOODSTOCK was going to treat you to a spooktacular vampire pun. But it sucks. So let’s creep it real with some more bands joining the bill, because we all know that you ghouls just wanna have fun. And in case you missed the fangtastic news about more weekend tickets being released, read on for further details and mark your calendar for 9am, November 5th, for that’s when they go on sale! No tricks! Hot on the heels of the monstrously good news about MASTODON joining the bill last Friday, here’s another 15 bands to bewitch you… BLOODSTOCK is pleased to welcome thrash-lovin’ Norwich metal maestros SHRAPNEL , innovative Canterbury doomsters FAMYNE , and Danish blackened death/doom metal merchants KONVENT to the Ronnie James Dio stage on Friday. Emerging from Germany’s extreme metal void with a fresh take on all things black/death, THE SPIRIT are added to Saturday’s bill. Sunday’s lineup now includes atmospheric, dark symphonic m...