Swedish metal crew Amaranthe are added to the Sunday Ronnie Jamies Dio main stage bill and will no doubt bring all kinds of hell with them as they lay waste to the main stage. Check out their video for ‘Maximize’ below;
Landing a Sophie Lancaster stage slot on Friday are Mancunian bruisers, INGESTED. Describing themselves as ‘Slamming Death Metal’ the five-piece will be determined to bring all kinds of hell to Bloodstock. A band you simply cannot miss.
Joining them on the Friday line-up are MORTISHEAD, who have plenty of teeth cutting riffs and a dominating stage presence, the Bristol-based lads are asserting themselves as a powerful movement headed by six brutal bastards.
Landing a slot on Saturday’s Sophie bill, the mighty Dead Label who have been the band on everybody’s lips over the last year. Their last performance at Bloodstock generated a great deal of UK interest and heavy rotation on countless radio stations and Scuzz TV of their blinding new video ‘Pure Chaos‘ which was released last year.
All the way from Perth, Australia, prog metallers VOYAGER join the fray on Saturday. The long-running group dropped their sixth album, ‘Ghost Mile’ last May.
After having to pull out last year, we’re pleased Nuclear Blast’s brutal German duo MANTAR are able to join Sunday’s Sophie bill in 2018! Don’t miss them if you love a bit of black metal combined with doom and punk.
If thrash is more your thing, be sure to catch Brighton beasts, KING LEVIATHAN. Describing themselves as “Extreme Metal band and purveyors of misery, ferocity and speed.” What’s not to like?
BLOODSTOCK is also pleased to welcome heavy supergroup, ACT OF DEFIANCE. Formed in 2014, by ex-Megadeth men Chris Broderick & Shawn Drover, plus Henry Derek (ex-Scar The Martyr) & Matt Bachand (Shadows Fall), check them out via this link.
Standard weekend tickets are now available priced at £145 for four days of metal fun, so grab yours now at https://bloodstock.seetickets. com.
If you haven’t grabbed your ticket yet and are still broke from Christmas shenanigans, BLOODSTOCK’s payment plan helps ease any ‘lump sum’ shock by breaking your ticket payment into five smaller, more manageable amounts.
Sign up in the ticket store any time before 28th Feb for an initial deposit of just £36. Thereafter, four additional instalments of £29 will debit your bank account on 3rd April, 1st May, 1st June and 2nd July respectively. Find out full details or sign up over at this location.
If you already know you can only attend for one day, sign up for a day ticket reminder email as day tickets do not go on sale until June. Register your day ticket interest here.
With Friday night headliners, JUDAS PRIEST, Saturday headliners, GOJIRA and Sunday’s bill-toppers, NIGHTWISH already announced, as well as EMPEROR, AT THE GATES, DEVILDRIVER, WATAIN, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, WEDNESDAY 13, JASTA & FRIENDS, FOZZY, COMBICHRIST, BLOODBATH, VENOM INC., MR BIG, ORPHANED LAND, KAMELOT, DORO, ORDEN OGAN, SEPTICFLESH, EXHORDER, VOLA and MEMORIAM so far, 2018 is shaping up to be another stellar year for BLOODSTOCK.
BLOODSTOCK will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 9th-12th August 2018. Get additional information over at this location.
Oran O’Beirne
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