There’s just 65 days – or 9 weekends – ‘til your heavy metal brethren thunder their way onto Catton Park’s hallowed turf. As the days count down, Bloodstock has the next phase of Metal 2 The Masses winners to reveal, as well as a new batch of club nights for June and July, plus news about the gaming arena this year, Vikings, and more!
First up then, the bands… Grabbing a Friday slot on the Hopical Storm New Blood stage are Nottingham alt-rock trio Sleep In Motion, Belfast metallers Nihilanth, Newcastle riff merchants Kraken Waker, and Edinburgh heavyists Hammer.
Saturday’s bill will include Sheffield brutalists IL, Irish-based, Brazilian crossover thrash squad Black Hole Divers, Manchester thrashers Hellbearer, and Leicester modern metallers Running With Knives.
Lastly, appearing on Sunday’s line up are Leeds prog rock crew Divided By Design and the victors in the Poland M2TM finals, melodeath newcomers Semprah. Stay tuned for the next phase of winners soon!
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Bloodstock club nights have been going great guns so far! By popular demand, we’ve added two Scottish events; Glasgow and and a first ever night in Edinburgh. Head to one of the following events to meet some other Bloodstock-ers and hear lots of BOA bands old and new, and maybe win a prize! Check locally for more details. There will be a competition at every club night to win a pair of standard weekend festival tickets!
- Fri 7th June – Glasgow – Cathouse
- Fri 21st June – Exeter – The Cavern, Altern8
- Sat 29th June – Manchester – Satan’s Hollow, Spitfire
- Sat 29th June – Stoke-on-Trent – The Sugarmill, Devil’s Night
- Sat 6th July – Torquay – The Attic, Party Hard!
- Sat 6th July – Brighton – Above, Apocalypse
- Fri 12th July – Bristol – The Lanes, Phuct
- Sat 13th July – Isle of Wight – Strings, Apocalypse
- Sat 20th July – Newcastle – Think Tank, Grindhouse
- Sat 20th July – Edinburgh – Decade, Decade’s 12th Birthday
- Sat 20th July – York – Bluebox, Deadbolt
- Fri 26th July – London – Elektrowerkz, Voodoo Summer Ball
- Sat 27th July – Nottingham – The Sal, Raise Your Horns
- Sat 27th July – Southampton – Sobar, Apocalypse
- Sat 27th July – Stoke-on-Trent – The Sugarmill, Devil’s Night
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GAMERS ASSEMBLE!! Wanna try out some VR tech at Bloodstock this year and maybe win some tickets to next year’s festival? In the Gaming Arena tent, as well as the usual fun, there will be a new installation with three VR games for you to test your mettle with; Beat Saber, Space Pirate and for the very bravest among you, Richie’s Plank Experience! The Beat Saber game will run as a competition across the duration of the festival, with the Top 3 scores at the end of the weekend winning prizes. The top scoring player will land themselves a pair of tickets to Bloodstock 2025! And don’t forget, you’ll be able to find out the identity of several of the 2025 bands including all three headliners by watching the big screen announcement on site.
Did we mention the Vikings?! Consider yourself warned, the Vikings are coming back! Warriors from across the country will converge on the hallowed fields of Catton Hall to compete in full contact 1v1 and team battles to be crowned the champions of Bloodstock. The sound of steel clashing and the splintering of shields will echo through the air as these warriors compete in battles and displays across the weekend in a special arena. This is not staged or choreographed! These warriors fight in fully authentic armour using real (albeit blunted) weapons in full contact competition.
You will have the chance to meet the warriors of the Blodorn, Hrafn, and Halda, and see combat up close, as Vikings mingle with Bloodstockers and challenge each other to duels of honour. The Norsemen raiders’ reputation for fierceness will be on display over the entire weekend. Stop and chat to the Viking warriors and take a selfie with them! When they’re not claiming glory on the battlefield, they’ll also answer your questions about their weaponry, armour, and the history of the Viking Age.
If you haven’t checked out Bloodstock’s new podcast yet, hosted by the inimitable Beez, head over to Spotify or Apple Podcasts and check out the episodes so far, including guests such as Clutch, Sylosis, Green Lung and more! You can also now find some of these episodes on the official Bloodstock YouTube channel.
Standard weekend tickets for Bloodstock, priced at £185 (+ booking fee) are available now in the 2024 ticket store. You can also snap up limited day tickets, child tickets (mini moshers under 4 yrs can come for free!), and if you want all the Bloodstock you can get, add-on early arrival for an extra day of camping on Wednesday too. Early Bird, VIP, and campervan tickets are sold out.
Bloodstock’s 2024 Ronnie James Dio main stage headliners are Amon Amarth, Opeth, and Architects. Across the weekend you can also expect to see Clutch, Hatebreed, Carcass, Enslaved, Malevolence, Satyricon, Rotting Christ, Sylosis, Whitechapel, Deicide, Grand Magus, Desert Storm, The Vintage Caravan, Soen, Green Lung, Combichrist, Xentrix, Exist Immortal, Eternal Champion, Grove Street, Mimi Barks, Crypta, Forbidden, Nervosa, Beast in Black, Korpiklaani, Unleash the Archers, Flogging Molly, Septic Flesh, Igorrr, Ruijin, Grove Street, Unpeople, Night Flight Orchestra, Hellripper, Infected Rain, Cultura Tres, Sadus, Ludovico Technique, Burner, Red Rum, Evergrey, Raised by Owls, Tailgunner, South of Salem, and Ankor amongst others with even more still to be announced.
Get full festival information over at bloodstock.uk.com. Bloodstock will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 8th-11th August 2024.
