Mad About Rock

  BLOODSTOCK festival HQ have revealed the first bands for 2027, unveiling them at the Ronnie James Dio stage right after Municipal Waste’s face-melting set on Friday the 7th August at the 2026 event. Mark your calendar now and start planning for August 5th - 8th, 2027. On Friday night, your Ronnie James Dio main stage headliners are MERCYFUL FATE - the Danish legends who helped invent heavy metal theatrics, King Diamond's falsetto still as unholy as ever. Corpse paint, inverted crosses, and a stage show soaked in occult drama…pay your respects, this is where a lot of extreme metal's DNA actually comes from. King Diamond has a little update for you, declaring, “Mercyful Fate is honored and looking extremely forward to playing BLOODSTOCK again, last time was awesome, and this time with a brand new album out, FINALLY!!!” Saturday night parties hard in a totally different fashion, though with no less chaos, as ELECTRIC CALLBOY headline BLOODSTOCK for the very first time. German ...

  Following the worldwide success of ELECTRIC CALLBOY's TEKKNO tour, the film TEKKNO: Live in Europe has been the absolute highlight in more than 100 German and Austrian cinemas already, and now it finally comes to the UK & Ireland! So if you didn't make it to the tour yourself or would like to see the breathtaking spectacle again, now is your chance. Watch the trailer and the band's announcement HERE . Watch some of the impressions of their worldwide premiere at the Lichtburg Theater in Essen HERE . You can find information and tickets HERE . The concert film was recorded at various national and international tour stops in Europe and has thus become a veritable best of the tour. The film joins a list of great successes of the band, from the No. #1 album in Germany, over 150,000 tickets sold worldwide, gold for the single 'Hypa Hypa' to over 10 million monthly streamers. The guys from Castrop-Rauxel are currently in the fast lane, and thus also in the cinemas...