If the announcement that Downtempo Deathcore skull splitters Bound In Fear are playing the Sophie Lancaster Stage on 25th Anniversary of Bloodstock Festival on Saturday August 8th 2026 didn’t send a shiver down the spine then the fact that they have a new album on the way may do just that. Titled “A Mind Too Sick
If you haven’t already heard, Cleveland Ohio natives Mushroomhead will be bringing their album “Call the Devil” to Bloodstock Open Air Festival in August. As if by total coincidence, their drummer Aydin “Alien” Kerr is the subject of the latest episode of Gear Masters from Digital Tour Bus as he shows off the gear that
Not only did we get to witness a lot of top drawer live performances throughout the year that was 2025 but we also got to see a few bands that we never thought for a second we would get the chance to. For example, if you’d told us this time last year that American Metalcore
Some raw GoPro footage of Mechromorph performing “Apex Predator” and “Lord Of The Harvest” at Bloodstock Open Air Festival this summer has materialised. The Essex Slamming Death Metal quintet have been in the space race since 2017, last year’s single pairing “Lunar Psychosis” and “Cosmic Aberration” confirming their presence in the science fiction horror genre
Having played the New Blood stage at Bloodstock in 2024, Dead Flesh were invited back to open the Sophie Lancaster stage and the entire festival earlier this summer, a event which we had the pleasure of witnessing in the *ahem* flesh. In this fresh interview with Get Heavy UK, the band discuss their past year,
Emerging from our tents like something being birthed on a David Attenborough documentary it’s safe to say it’s f***ing hot on Sunday morning in Catton Park. After yesterday’s phenomenal line up there are sore heads a plenty as well as queues for the facilities and everyone’s on a bit of a go slow. Machine Head
After learning from graffiti the back of the toilet door that “The naked man fears no pickpocket” and witnessing a Spaceman, some Formula 1 drivers and a man dressed as a pony giving rides to his friends yesterday, it’s obvious that every one has entered into festival spirit(s). How people manage to carry off fancy
Waking up to the sound of campers shouting “Are you alive? Does it feel good to be alive?” in James Hetfield style is something Festival goers all around the globe enjoy and Bloodstock is no different. It’s warm after yesterday’s rain and after a protein shake, a can of Monster and the application of some
On Friday 9th August 2024 the first twenty five bands were announced for this years incarnation of Bloodstock Open Air Festival and it instantly became the hottest ticket it town. Three names stood out like a hammer smashed thumb in Trivium, Machine Head and Gojiria making it the most talked about event of the year
While they’re in the United Kingdom to play Bloodstock Open Air Festival next summer to play “Demanufacture” in full, Fear Factory will play a pair of shows with Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s solo project King. That group features members of Death Angel and Hell Yeah and will probably drop a Slayer cover or three in
