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  Fresh off BLOODSTOCK’s inaugural Winter Gathering, this holiday season BLOODSTOCK gifts metalheads something seriously heavy: five exclusive, newly released, pro-shot videos from GOJIRA’s earth-shaking 2025 headline performance, individually re-engineered with the band’s sound engineer to create the best and heaviest listening experience possible. Dropping across the holiday period, these live cuts capture the French titans at full power - a perfect festive binge for fans hungry for riffs. Your essential festive viewing includes “Stranded,” the groove-driven anthem from their 2016 released Magma opus, which airs first, blazing with the ferocity that made it a modern classic. “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!),” which made waves after the band’s blistering performance during the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony, drops next. “Only Pain” follows, also taken from Magma, and showcases GOJIRA’s signature blend of precision and emotional weight. Next, the band’s crushing take on “Under The Sun...

  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, ...

  BLOODSTOCK IS NEXT WEEK!!! Let that sink in, only one more weekend to go!! And there’s a whole host of information to share from more details about this year’s event to how and when you can get the cheapest tickets for 2026, so read on, dear metalhead, for the full lowdown. OZZY First off though, all at Team BLOODSTOCK are devastated at the loss of Ozzy, the one and only Prince Of Darkness. Some members of our team were lucky enough to be at Villa Park for the almighty Black Sabbath’s incredible final show, others watched the live stream… all were moved. The impact that Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne had on heavy metal can never be overstated. It’s been touching to see all the tributes from across the world since his passing, and we know BLOODSTOCKers have big hearts. There will now be an unmissable 17m Ozzy tribute wall next to the main stage (by the charity stands), and BLOODSTOCK encourages all fans to write their heartfelt messages of tribute and/or condolence on it. There w...

  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...