BLOODSTOCK ANNOUNCEMENT, 24 bands revealed across the Stowford Press New Blood and EMP UK stages!
While you’re waiting for those M2TM finals to get underway BLOODSTOCK HQ has chosen a few other favourites from hundreds of cross-genre submissions to complete the bill.
Over on the Stowford Press New Blood stage on Friday you’ll be able to see:
Death/doom devotees VOID BELOW
Alt prog rock Londoners Temples on Mars
Boisterous hardcore-metal alchemists Negative Frame
Concrete Age with their distinctive mix of ancient world music with extreme metal.
Joining them on Saturday:
Old school riff merchants Thrasherwolf
N.Irish melo-death purveyors Imperial Demonic
Young aggressors Chained Saint
Dark prog metal fiends Imbrium (featuring former members of Dreamcatcher, Memoreve and The Defiled)
Sunday invites:
OVERPOWER who forge together riffs of early influences like Metallica and Slayer, with the savagery of UKHC.
BLOODSTOCK is also excited to reveal the full line-up for the new and improved EMP stage! Now situated in a new location in the main arena for less noise bleed, with a bigger stage and a bar, it’ll play host to more than a dozen up ‘n’ coming attention getters.
Friday on the EMP stage welcomes:
Heavy rockers Untamed Silence
Melodic punkcore beasts Change Persona
Metalcore headbangers AFTER SMOKE CLEARS
Rock-metal hybrid Soulride
Symphonic prog metallers Vanitas
Saturday offers:
Occult doomsters Goat Major
Modern classic rockers Cancel The Transmission
Trad metalheads Tempest Saint
Power sludge duo Troll Mother
Hardcore punkers DØSED
Rounding things off on Sunday are:
Hardcore fans Stitched
Electro alt rockers WREX
Modern metal squad Following The Signs
Power trio The Cartoon Cartel
Dark alt crew Aethoria
If these bands are new to you, you have 4 months to get to know them! Stay tuned for news on M2TM finals.
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