With Bloodstock 2025 just a few weeks away. The grounds of Catton Hall in Derby will soon be filled with thousands of heavy metal fans. All dying for their fix of live music. So with the roster of artists on Bloodstocks expansive bill semmingly growing by the year. We’ve taken a look at 2025’s amazing…
With little over a month to go until Bloodstock unleashes some of the worlds most potent heavy metal acts upon the Derbyshire countryside. The festival has bolstered it’s already impressive roster this week. Adding seventeen more bands from it’s grassroots Metal 2 The Masses contests which have been taking place all over the UK. Taking…
Not content with providing heavy metal fans with a weekend stacked with some of the world’s finest extreme music every summer. Bloodstock announced their first ever ‘Winter Gathering’ event today, set to take place at KK’s Steel Mill in Wolverhampton on December 6th! Having long ago graduated from indoor stages into the open air behemoth…
Bay Area thrashers Machine Head have announced their monumental eleventh studio album this week, UNATØNED. Which is slated for release this April! Having blazed a trail through the heavy metal landscape for the better part of three decades. Overcoming obstacle after obstacle. The bands latest work is a testament to the momentum, determination and die…
To celebrate 20 years of Bloodstock Open Air festival, this year’s event will see fans gaining an extra day of live music for FREE! That’s right, four days of live music, Wednesday 11th – Sunday 15th August, to bring us the metal party of the year, and after the lack of music the last 18…
Greg & Simon are back once again to fill your earholes with bants and all the finest metal talk. This month the boys are talking about Kiss playing a gig for sharks, all the finest festival news and a deep dive on S&M and S&M 2 by some band called Metallica
For 25 years Dez Fafara has been one of the most enduring figures in the world of metal. Whether it was introducing the world to the darker side of things in the 90’s with Coal Chamber or bringing the heavy back with Devildriver, he has endured and remained throughout. Not one to rest on his…
Chilean thrashmeisters Criminal make their second sojourn to the Bloodstock stage after a six-year absence, wielding last year’s storming album Fear Itself under their experienced belts. Frontman Anton Reisenegger took a few minutes out of his busy Sunday to speak about the band’s international ventures and the legacy of a band that have faced the…
Earlier this year at Bloodstock Open Air 2016, Rock Sins were lucky enough to catch up with Steve Tovey, frontman of one of the UK’s hottest metal exports currently; The King Is Blind. We managed to cover everything from The King Is Blind’s influences, their writing process and even a bit of politics. How do…
Words: Olde Nick 666 @oldenick666 Photos: Tess Donohoe Last year Trivium headlined a UK festival for the first time at Bloodstock before unleashing latest album “Silence In The Snow” back in October. As always the band split opinions with the new work. Almost six months later how would British crowds react to the new songs…
Words by Olde Nick @oldenick666 Live photos by Tess Donohoe @tess_donohoe Before X-mess Satan Claws delivered an early present in the form of a tour by Austrian black metal masters Belphegor with American death metallers Vital Remains, Polish heavyweights Hate and the UK’s own Ethereal in tow. Olde Nick and Tess went to check out…
Bloodstock Open Air has announced three more bands for next August’s annual mosh-fest in Derbyshire. US prog metallers Symphony X (pictured) – making an exclusive UK festival appearance – join Sunday, with Slayer topping that bill. Fellow Americans, industrial metal legends, Fear Factory will hit the Ronnie James Dio Stage on Saturday, headlined by Mastodon….
