Bloodstock Open Air continues to grow into a monster lineup as the vaunted festival has added five new bands for 2019! New to the bill are Grand Magus, Death Angel, Metal Chuch, Ross the Boss and Evil Scarecrow! Grand Magus will headline the Sophie Lancaster stage and aims to have a new album out in time for the festival. These bands join a bill that already includes Sabaton, Scorpions, Together With Children Of Bodom, Code Orange, Soilwork, Cradle Of Filth, Skeletonwitch, Dee Snider, Queensryche, Eluveitie, Rotting Christ and Hypocrisy among others, with many more to be named later. Tickets are moving fast!Continue reading
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Code Orange, Skeletonwitch, Rotting Christ, Eluveitie Added To Bloodstock Open Air 2019
Bloodstock Open Air, the finest independent metal festival in the world has added more bands to the bill for 2019. Code Orange, Skeletonwitch, Rotting Christ, Eluveitie joins already announced Friday night headliner, Sabaton, Sunday headliner Scorpions, together with Children Of Bodom, Soilwork, Cradle of Filth, Dee Snider, Queensrÿche and Hypocrisy on the Catton Park stages next summer. Early bird tickets are still available from the link below.Continue reading
BABYMETAL Shares New Single “Starlight”, YuiMetal Resigns From The Band
BABYMETAL is about to kickoff a new headline tour in Japan next week at Makuhari Messe starting October 23rd and will be ending at Kobe World Memorial Hall on the 31st. To celebrate, the band released a new single ‘Starlight’, digitally. They also unveiled the music video on October 19th (JST). A portion of this new song ‘Starlight’ is included in BABYMETAL’s graphic novel Apocrypha: The Legend of BABYMETAL‘s trailer. You can listen to and purchase the new song below. Continue reading
Bloodstock 2019 Announces Scorpions As Sunday Night Headliner
Bloodstock Open Air has made their third band announcement for 2019! Heavy rock legends Scorpions will headline Sunday night on 11th August, closing out the Ronnie James Dio Stage and the festival! Scorpions are one of the greatest bands on of all time for 50 years, selling 160 million albums with countless hits worldwide, including ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’, ‘No One Like You’, and ‘Big City Nights’. Continue reading
Watch BABYMETAL Perform Their New Single From Download, 12 Inch Vinyl Coming Soon
BABYMETAL surprise released a brand new single, ‘Distortion’ this past May, delighting their fans. Now with a month to go the band have confirmed their release of a Distortion 12 vinyl worldwide on November 23rd, including a special version as part of Record Store Day Black Friday in the US and Canada. This vinyl will coincide with the bands Babymetal Wold Tour 2018 In Japan, including a show opening for Babymetal friends/fans Judas Priest. The single release ushered in a new storyline in the Babymetal mythos, including a new stage show in time for their current tour as well. Along with the studio recording, the new vinyl includes the recording of their live performance at Download Festival 2018 (UK) on June 9th. Watch the band play “Distortion” live at Download Festival 2018 now. Continue reading
Sabaton Releases Hilarious Lego Video
Power metal kings Sabaton shared a hysterical video of them rehearsing in their studio. Except the band is represented by accurate Lego versions of themselves, right down to their signature tank from their stage show. You can watch the clip they shared below. Sabaton was recently announced as the first headliner for Bloodstock Open Air 2019.Continue reading
Sabaton Named First Headliner For Bloodstock Open Air 2019
Power metal titans Sabaton have been named the first official headline act for Bloodstock Open Air 2019. They will headline Friday 9th August in what will be their only UK show in 2019. The band released a trailer below discussing the announcement! Standard weekend tickets are also currently available at ‘early bird’ prices (just £132 for four days of metal fun), which you can buy from the link below.Continue reading
Sabaton – “The Last Stand” Music Video Released
Sabaton will be kicking off their co-headlining tour with Kreator in a few weeks, and to help get you more excited for the upcoming dates, the Swedish metallers have shared a new video online. Continue reading
Exmortus Have Completed Recording Their New Album, Announce New Tour Dates

Exmortus recently entered Sharkbite Studios with producer Zack Ohren, and after ten days of non-stop shreddage, they’ve announced that they’ve completed recording their new album. Not only that, but they’ve also confirmed that they will be supporting Sabaton & Kreator on the first few shows of their upcoming U.S. tour! Continue reading
Heidevolk – Vuur Van Verzet
In the arena of folk and pagan influenced metal, which is often (and at times unfairly) thought of as pure silliness, drinking and near cartoonish portrayals, Dutch Folk Metallers Heidevolk have always been a consistently decent outfit, but one that has never reached the mainstream dabblings of a Turisas. Perhaps this is, in part, due to their more balanced take on the genre which sits between the fun-loving, grandiose approach, thoroughbred Heavy Metal grit and a more intelligent, nuanced side; Heidevolk is a name yet to progress beyond the most ardent of Folk Metal fan-bases only.Continue reading






