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  What better to see the back of 387 chilly days of January than BLOODSTOCK announcing the final Ronnie James Dio main stage and Sophie Lancaster stage bands joining the bill, as 2023’s hottest metal weekender edges ever closer. Not only that, there’s info on how to work a couple of shifts to get free BLOODSTOCK tickets, a brand new trailer to watch, plus day tickets will go on sale tomorrow! And did we mention the Vikings are coming?! With 14 bands to reveal, on with the details! Not familiar with someone? Just click the band name and you’ll be whisked off to one of their YouTube videos to bring you up to speed. Maybe you’ll find a new favourite not to be missed!! Completing Friday’s Ronnie James Dio main stage line-up are noted doomsters WITCHSORROW who get the day started in fine fettle, plus Lancaster rockers WYTCH HAZEL , and Polish blackened death metal beasts HATE . Very welcome on Saturday’s main stage are Swedish rock ruffians ROYAL REPUBLIC , and highly acclaimed Woking ...

  Swedish Grammis Award-winners TRIBULATION have announced their upcoming EP Hamartia, due for release 17th April via Century Media Records. In celebration, they've also shared the new single and video for 'Axis Mundi'. The track is the second recording to feature new guitarist Joseph Tholl, after their last stand-alone single ' Hamartia '. Watch the music video, (directed by Johan Bååth in collaboration with Astrid Bergdahl) 'Axis Mundi' HERE . Stream 'Axis Mundi' HERE . Purchase and stream 'Axis Mundi' HERE. TRIBULATION guitarist Adam Zaars comments on the new single: "'Axis Mundi' sees TRIBULATION entering The Machine Age through the lens of dystopian fiction in a journey to the centre of the world, and beyond. Being the first composition by Joseph Tholl (guitars), it offers the listener and the viewer a new set of flavours and hues to the palate, and from the palette that constitutes the egregore that is TRIBULATION. A new ye...