Bloodstock, the UK’s biggest independent metal festival, is all set to take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 7th-10th August 2025. With headliners, Gojira, Trivium, and Machine Head, joined by the likes of Mastodon, Nailbomb, Ministry, Emperor, Fear Factory, and others, there are still more to be announced. The fest has now unveiled its plans for fancy dress themes, on site entertainment, including medieval combat tournaments. Keep reading below for more details.
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New Wave Of Metal Takes Over Bloodstock’s Emp Stage This August
Bloodstock is thrilled to be partnering with premier alternative lifestyle and merchandise brand EMP to unveil the next wave of rising metal talent set to storm the EMP Stage this August.
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Cradle Of Filth Books European “Cruelty And The Beast” Tour Dates
Cradle Of Filth has just booked an amazing run of tour dates, where they will perform one of their classic albums, 1998’s Cruelty and The Beast (Music For Nations) in its an entirety, plus other hits. The album. In addition to headline dates, some festivals are also included. The Spirit will provide direct support on headline shows. Hopefully, more dates will be added because to hear this album live should make for a monster show! Continue reading
August 10th 2018 New Music Releases
The Spirit – Sounds From The Vortex
A cold nocturnal Scandinavian wind blows; icy tendrils stabbing southwards, searching, seeking for blackened hearts to infect. The hosts wait, apprehensive, yet welcoming, ideas already pregnant. The frost-bitten hunter swirls at first, before plunging its whole intent deep into the waiting prey. Saarbrücken, Germany, nominally a thriving, modern economic centre, is now the scene for the cultivation of a different type of essence, for that which grows inside it is not the spirit of commerce, but The Spirit of melodic blackened metal.Continue reading
The Spirit Signs With Nuclear Blast
German melodic blackened death metallers The Spirit have signed with Nuclear Blast Records for their next album. The bands’ recent debut Sounds From The Vortex is out now, and the band has some touring lined up with Kataklysm and Hypocrisy and festivals including this year’s Party San Open Air and Summer Breeze.Continue reading