According to a published report by Lambgoat.com, the mostly hardcore-centric festival will celebrate its tenth year in existence with its 2024 lineup. Taking place January 6th and 7th 2024 in Tampa, FL at the Byran Glazer JCC, the fest features the reunited Trapped Under Ice and Dying Fetus as headliners along with Twitching Tongues, Incendiary, Pain Of Truth, Militarie Gun, Mindforce, Never Ending Game, Everybody Gets Hurt, Gridiron, Koyo, and many more! Check out the full lineup below.
Day 3.
SATURDAY
If you were one of the first hundred people to enter the New Blood tent on Saturday morning, then first band of the day Ward XVI (8/10) would reward you with a goodie bag full of stuff like CDs, stickers and t-shirts etc. I strolled over to the tent a good half an hour before they were due on, only to find that half the festival was already in there. It’s amazing how people, no matter how tired or hungover, will always drag themselves out of bed on the promise of free stuff. Goodie bags aside, Ward XVI were a great way to start the Saturday fun. Eclectic and fun, they combined chuggy metal riffs with bouncy Psychobilly, creepy gothic melodies, and at one point, what appeared to be Russian folk. The band’s costumes and make-up were interesting, but like vocalist Psychoberrie‘s strait-jacketed ballad (Alice Cooper and ‘The Ballad of Dwight Frye’ anyone?) they all felt a little too familiar.Continue reading
Thursday
For anyone looking for early indicators that Bloodstock 2017 would be as ridiculous and over the top as usual, then surely the sight which would have greeted many – a group of people in the field acting as the event’s main car park, cheering on a Red Power Ranger as he gyrated and danced on top of a car – would have been as good a first sign as any.Continue reading
The time is nigh! The largest and possibly best independent metal festival in the world, Bloodstock Open Air is upon us once again. A year of planning and waiting has come to pass and now the weekend is here, with 1000s of heshers and hesherettes descend on Walton on Trent in Derbyshire, UK ready to celebrate all that is heavy music in the UK over the long weekend. When your motto is “By The Fans For The Fans”, and you can honestly say they have delivered this year in and year out, one needs to show respect. Get hyped with our preview, and check back soon for our full review with photos in case you can’t make it out. Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air continues to close in with day tickets releasing their at 9am tomorrow, 30th June! Weekend tickets are apparently selling faster than ever this year and may well sell out entirely before the festival weekend, so don’t delay if you want to guarantee a spot at the UK’s best metal festival!Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air 2017 is coming up fast with just under 7 weeks to go for the festival first band to plug in and rock! The fest has added more bands to the bill including Havok, Fallujah, Shrapnel, Bloodoath, Criminal and more!Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air is fast approaching and the fest has added a bevy of new bands. The infamous BOA club nights are also back, and have grown to 26 more nights. Details below: Continue reading
As spring turns to summer Bloodstock 2017 is approaching fast. The festival has added new bands to the lineup including Devilment, Battle Beast, Devil’s Playground and more for this years’ fest taking place at Catton Park.Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air 2017 continues to pile on the quality name bands from across the metal genre. Now joining the already packed bill are Swedish metallers Soilwork, US death metal legends Macabre, the enigmatic folk/prog band Wintersun, and Egypitian baddasses Scarab. Continue reading