Mad About Rock

  Only a month now until metalheads will return to Derbyshire’s Catton Park in the UK, where BLOODSTOCK welcomes headbangers from all over the world along with 120 bands to another unforgettable 4 day festival experience from August 8 – 11, 2024. Fans can look forward to headliners like Amon Amarth, Architects, and Opeth and see Hatebreed, Korpiklaani, Malevolence, Satyricon, Deicide, Whitechapel, Enslaved, and many more on stage or enjoy fairground rides, Viking battles, a gaming arena, heavy metal art gallery, signing tent, or drinks on the festival grounds. But there’s one more reason 2024 will be a very special year at Bloodstock: By arrangement with Official Motörhead management, Bloodstock has announced that the legendary, late, great Lemmy Kilmister will be permanently memorialised at the heavy metal festival. Some of Lemmy’s ashes will be housed at BLOODSTOCK – one of only a few places globally – in a unique urn, with the festival commissioning a Bust of Lemmy to incorporat...

Happy Year New Everyone! Updated regularly with new 2016 releases - 7/2/16! So 2015 has come to an end! It brought with it some brilliant rock/metal releases, and sadly the year saw the tragic departure of some of the finest rock legends. Obviously everyone's favourite albums/releases are subject to opinion, but some notable mentions for me include: Disturbed - Immortalized Acoda - Truth Seeker Conquer Divide - Self Titled Papa Roach - F.E.A.R Parkway Drive - Ire Atreyu - Long Live Bullet For My Valentine - Venom Trivium - Silence In The Snow The Echo & The Always - And After That The Dark Weesp - The Void Coldrain - VENA Straight Line Stitch - Transparency King Leviathan - The Shrine Meta-Stasis - The Paradox Of Metanoia WEAK13 - They Live I have probably missed some, but these ones mentioned are worth checking out if you haven't already! 2015 has been a strange year musically for me, as some of the albums that I thought would be in this list, did...