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  Ho ho ho! Let’s get the festive season into full swing with some more festival news. The weather might be getting colder, but BLOODSTOCK fever is hotting up, with day tickets now available plus today’s latest band announcement revealing the final bands joining the Sophie Lancaster stage in August 2025. Fourteen more bands are lined up to make your festival weekend go with a bang. Handling Thursday’s opening night party duties with aplomb, will be high intensity deathcore beasts DEADFLESH from Hertfordshire, original BLOODSTOCK indoor alumnus FOURWAYKILL , and Belgium’s power trio GNOME . Treat your Friday bangover to a hefty dose of Welsh black metalheads OFNUS , non-conforming tech/deathcorel extremists TURIN , Belfast’s prog metal underdogs LOCK HORNS , and UKHC bruisers ROUGH JUSTICE from Sheffield. Livening up the Sophie tent on Saturday will be prog metal experimentalists IREOSIS from Leeds, post metal soundscape crafters VNDER A CRVMBLING MOON , Sheffield’s blackened pos...

  After just last week revealing their final headliner, MESHUGGAH and special guests, HELLOWEEN joining the bill, BLOODSTOCK is excited to announce even more bands for 2023, including the entire Thursday eve, opening party night line up!! Headlining Thursday night on the Sophie Lancaster big top stage are hotly tipped, industrial goth duo, SKYND . Also bringing the noise once you’ve set up your tent and cracked your first beer are power metal outfit WARKINGS , Texan death metal squad FROZEN SOUL , post-nu-core parody five piece, THE VIOLENT INZIDENT and opening the afternoon’s proceedings are Brighton M2TM alumni, TRIBE OF GHOSTS . Also joining are a slew of bands filling out the Sophie Lancaster stage line up across the weekend. On Friday, expect to see the likes of avant garde goth duo ZETRA , Birmingham prog metal squad DAKESIS and THE ENIGMA DIVISION (feat. former Xerath guitarist, Conor McGouran). Landing a slot on Saturday are thrashcore 4-pce TORTURED DEMON , Cambri...

London Metallers GraViL Added To Bloodstock Festival Line-up & They Release New Video 'Detonate'! The latest announcement by Bloodstock Open Air this past Tuesday sees the London melodeath group GRAVIL confirmed for the prestigious Sophie Lancaster stage on Sunday 14th August. This new addition to the bill once again demonstrates Bloodstock's commitment to championing new bands in the metal community. "We are honoured to be a part of Bloodstock Open Air 2017" says GraViL vocalist Grant Stacey. "Each year this spiritual home of heavy metal somehow betters the year before. We have each spent a lot of time on the hallowed ground of Catton Park, witnessing stunning new bands, the earth shattering veterans of the main stage and embracing the metal music community that we have come to call our family. Now we are privileged to grace the SOPHIE stage, whose very name represents the strength and pride of our brotherhood. See you there!" 2017 has seen a...