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Tuesday, June 30. 2009INSOMNIUM CONFIRMED FOR BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2009 INSOMNIUM "We are really excited to get back to the UK” says the band. “Playing Bloodstock just before our new album comes out is a great thing for us! We had to cancel Bloodstock in 2006, so we are really happy to get the opportunity to do it this year. All you good people over there, you can expect a total carnage!" CLICK HERE to view the INSOMNIUM Bloodstock Band profile page . MAIN STAGE LINE UP SO FAR FRIDAY CARCASS, ARCH ENEMY, SAXON, KATATONIA, MUNICIPAL WASTE, DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER, INSOMNIUM, MILLION DOLLAR RELOAD ... plus more to be confirmed SATURDAY CRADLE OF FILTH, BLIND GUARDIAN, APOCALYPTICA, KREATOR, ENSLAVED, CANDLEMASS, ENTOMBED, THE HAUNTED, WOLF, BATTLELORE SUNDAY EUROPE, SATYRICON, AMON AMARTH, MOONSPELL, TURISAS, ANATHEMA, EQUILIBRIUM, GIRLSCHOOL, SABATON, BEHOLDER TO BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW CLICK HERE . Regards Bloodstock Team Tuesday, June 30. 2009THE ROTTED CONFIRMED FOR BLOODSTOCK 2009 THE ROTTED CLICK HERE to view the ROTTED Bloodstock Band Profile page . Regards Bloodstock Team Sunday, June 28. 2009BLOODSTOCK UNLEASH DAY TICKETS AS OF 1ST JULY Day tickets for the UK’s biggest Metal event of the calendar ’Bloodstock Open Air’ go on sale 1st July at Just £45. AMAZING VALUE! A choice of over 25 bands to choose from on any one of the 3 days. For those of you not able to attend for the entire weekend, you’re gonna have one hell of a day to remember.You’ll have access to the arena from 10am til 2am. A choice of 3 x stages of the most brutal metal acts on the planet. You’ll even get the chance to meet your favourite band at the official Band Signing Tent, shop til ya drop at the international metal market, enjoy the thrills of the Monster Ball of Steel Stunt Show as well as loads more entertainment. On top of that and if you still have any energy left after the main stage closes at 11.30pm - join the late night Metal Party where you can raise a pint or 2 with your metal brethren in aid of getting your vocal chords lubricated, your stage presence perfected and your lyrics learnt for the Infamous Late night Bloodstock Metal Karaoke. Of course you can just do what everyone else does and just get your name down, get drunk, get up on stage, wonder what the hell you're doing there and then belt out the track of your choice to adoring thousands who also wonder what the hell you're doing there.....just before they follow you up to do the same. So , if you can’t make it for the whole weekend here’s a reminder of the bands performing on each day on the main stage – FRIDAY CARCASS, ARCH ENEMY, SAXON, KATATONIA, MUNICIPAL WASTE, DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER, MILLION DOLLAR RELOAD ... plus more to be confirmed SATURDAY CRADLE OF FILTH, BLIND GUARDIAN, APOCALYPTICA, KREATOR, ENSLAVED, CANDLEMASS, ENTOMBED, THE HAUNTED, WOLF, BATTLELORE SUNDAY EUROPE, SATYRICON, AMON AMARTH, MOONSPELL, TURISAS, ANATHEMA, EQUILIBRIUM, GIRLSCHOOL, SABATON, BEHOLDER *Sophie Lancaster Stage and Bloodstock Unsigned stage times to be confirmed soon. If you think you can cope with the entire three-days of metal, weekend tickets (which include camping) cost £95 and are available from the Bloodstock website as well as selected HMV stores around the UK and major online ticket sites. Please Note: There have only been a small number of Day tickets allocated on a first come first serve basis and therefore certain days will sell out before others. To get your Bloodstock Tickets today CLICK HERE . Regards Bloodstock Team Tuesday, June 23. 2009ENTOMBED CONFIRMED FOR BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2009 ENTOMBED EXCLUSIVE UK SHOW !! Bloodstock Open Air 2009 is thrilled, excited and honoured to confirm the exclusive return of ENTOMBED to the UK at this year’s Bloodstock festival. The Swedish death’n’roll legends have not set foot in the UK for 3 years and guitarist Alex Hellid is looking forward to the band’s return: “Yes, finally! Back to the UK! Look forward to Bloodstock very very much! It’s been way too long and Entombed are extremely delighted to return to our second home after what seems to be an eternity. Great bands too I see!!! We have not been to UK since masters of death 2006, so we’re really looking forward to some mushy peas and late night curries by now!!” This exclusive performance at the UK’s only true open air metal event promises to be a memorable experience. Classic tracks such as “Crawl”, “Demon”, “Out Of Hand” and “Like This With The Devil” are bound to have the metal heads of Bloodstock grinning and growling along in the way only ENTOMBED can, and as their only UK show of 2009 this is not to be missed! CLICK HERE to View the ENTOMBED Bloodstock Band Profile Page . Regards Bloodstock Team Tuesday, June 23. 2009TRIBE ARE TO PERFORM ON SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE AT BLOODSTOCK Tribe formed in September 2006, with an idea to be the band that was the square peg in the round hole of metal music.Originally the band, from Yorkshire in the north of England began life writing and rehearsing without a full time drummer, Michael Lee of Page/Plant fame was an old friend of Pauls, and he played on the bands first demo recording. Around this time a myspace profile was created for the new band to gauge the reaction from the most important people of all...rock music fans. From day one the feedback was incredible, with thousands of people worldwide checking out the band and their music. Tribe worked on new material through 2007 writing for their first release. During this time the final piece of the jigsaw was completed when drummer Adam Goldsmith joined the band. At the end of the year sixteen tracks where picked and demos where recorded, each song leaning in a slightly different direction yet always maintaining the bands unique style, from these songs the final tracks where chosen for Tribes first release, which the band recorded with award winning German producer Sascha Paeth. “Pray for calm ..Need the chaos” Tribe’s debut album was recorded at Monnow Valley studio in Wales (where the likes of Black Sabbath, Queen and Rush had made some of the most classic rock albums of all time) and Gate Studios in Germany, Where Edguy, Kamelot and Avantasia currently record. Once the album was completed the band undertook some live shows, opening for among others Saxon. Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson also picked up on the bands unique metal sound and championed them on his radio show regularly playing tracks from the new album, hailing the band as a great British rock act. With “Pray for calm” already gaining great acclaim from the media, and many of the most respected names in metal music, Tribe could be one of the success stories of 2009. www.tribe.uk.net www.myspace.com/tribeband Tuesday, June 23. 2009GODSIZED CONFIRMED FOR BLOODSTOCK’s SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE GODSIZED Here are four like-minded musicians with one thing in mind – channelling everything they have into creating heavy, groove based hard rock culminating in powerful, dynamic live shows. After solidifying the bands’ line-up in 2008 the band quickly established a name for themselves on the live circuit. The band spent the rest of the year alternating between the road and working on new material – keeping the hooks huge and the riffs even bigger. In August 2008, the band headed into the studio to commence work on their self financed, 5 Track EP “Brothers in Arms” with producer Mark Mynett. The EP was mastered in L.A by Brian Gardner (Alterbridge, Lamb of God, Avenged Sevenfold) Leaving in their wake a trail of blown speakers, smoking amps and dilapidated engine parts Godsized are a focussed, powerhouse of a band determined to make new fans and friends across the UK and beyond. Godsized have also provided the soundtrack for the new Bloodstock You Tube trailer taken from their lastest release “Brothers In Arms”. www.myspace.com/godsized Monday, June 22. 2009TOTAL ROCK RADIO DISCOVER A CORKER FOR BLOODSTOCK
Our good friends at Total Rock have been running a Bloodstock Competition and we are
pleased to announce they’ve come up with a pearler!!! Boys and Girls please welcome.......... Blindfolds Aside What do you get when you cross two Englishman, a Welshman, an Indian and a Jew? Apart from the makings of a potentially hilarious joke, you get midlands based melodic groovecore outfit Blindfolds Aside. Consisting of Ash Lottay on Vocals, Will Haward and Phil Smith on Guitars, Tom Savage on Bass and Franco Van Fet on Drums, the band are thankful to the bizarre yet fortuitous circumstances which brought them together. Although it’s never a good idea to mix Jack Daniels, Rats and metal! After changes to the line up where ex-Jesse James Stick-man disappeared from the country a new line up was born. P-head knew Balls through a Mexican and a rat. Tom had suspicions Phil was interfering with his Wife, and it would be nice if Franco stopped interfering altogether so the band was complete. Blindfolds Aside have spent the last months playing shows, festivals and Radio Shows all over the U.K. including live sessions on Kerrang! Radio and Red TV The new five piece are recording their debut Album which promises an energising mix of pounding riffs, catchy vocal melodies backed up with a purely brutal heaviness. www.myspace.com/blindfoldsasidemusic Monday, June 22. 2009Tuesday, June 16. 2009ANATHEMA CONFIRMED FOR BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2009 ANATHEMA Bloodstock are pleased to confirm UK progressive metallers Anathema are to grace the main stage at this years BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR ! As one of the three British bands that popularized doom death in the early nineties, Anathema has come a long way indeed. The trio of Anathema, My Dying Bride, and Paradise Lost all played a similar style in their early careers, but have since diverged, with My Dying Bride sticking the closest to the original style, Paradise Lost wandering into more radio-accessible territory, and Anathema more or less taking the middle road. By the time of 1999's Judgment Anathema was less a doom death band and more a dark metal band, with mostly clean vocals but retaining some of the brooding, heavy rifting of the past. The succeeding albums have seen the band striking out into new territory, with A Natural Disaster almost completely non-metal of any kind, instead adopting a serene, ambient, introspective rock style (others have noted similarities to Radiohead and Pink Floyd). On its own merits, it's a beautiful album, though certainly those who only know the band from the Serenades days would be more than a little surprised with this new direction. Shortly before the release of A Fine Day to Exit, Dave Pybus announced his departure from the band to join - ironically - Cradle of Filth. He was replaced by touring bassist George Roberts and then by Jamie Cavanagh. In March of 2002, Daniel Cavanagh announced his departure from the band, joining Duncan Patterson's band Antimatter. But he came back to Anathema and in 2003 the band released A Natural Disaster and started an European Tour. This album took experimenting a bit further showing that their biggest source of inspiration is Pink Floyd. Today the music of Anathema lost all connection with the doom or metal genre, but has a more atmospheric and progressive tone. It owes more to the like of Radiohead, Jeff Buckley and especially Pink Floyd, a major influence for the band. The band are very pleased to be gracing the main stage at this years Bloodstock Open Air festival and have promised fans a performance to remember ! CLICK HERE to view the ANATHEMA Bloodstock Band Profile page . Regards Bloodstock Team Tuesday, June 16. 2009WOLF CONFIRMED FOR BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2009 WOLF Wolf are back with their long awaited new album Ravenous, the album has been getting rave reviews by all the music mags including Bloodstocks own media partners Metal Hammer who gave the album an impressive 8/10 ! The band’s sound has often been compared to that of Iron maiden which maybe why they have gained great exposure on the radio through Bruce Dickinson’s Radio 1 rock show. Turning attention to Ravenous, it’s yet another platter of trademark Wolf metal. Straightforward and to the point, carved from the soul with an “if ain’t broke don’t fix it” AC/DC attitude even if the band’s approach was slightly different this time out from their previous album The Black Flame. Replacing Goding and Kellgren on Ravenous are Anders Modd and Richard Holmgren respectively. Wolf is back to full strength, with all four members on the same page. “When you get the right people back in the band it feels great,” says Losbäck. “I’ve known Anders for many years. He used to be in Tad Morose and I’m a fan of their stuff. I remember when they came out with the Modus Vivendi album; I thought it was the best Swedish metal album ever (laughs). I knew that Tad Morose wasn’t doing anything and that he really looking to get out there again, so we asked him to jump in and do few gigs to see where it would take him because he was still with Tad Morose at the time. He made his first appearance with us at the Bloodstock Festival and actually introduced himself by doing a striptease on stage (laughs). But, he’s been around, he knows the business, and he’s a great guy and knows his metal. There’s no beating around the bush, he’s all ‘take it or leave it’ just like us.” CLICK HERE to view the WOLF Bloodstock Band Profile page . See Wolf back to their best this AUGUST at BLOODSTOCK !!! Regards Bloodstock Team Tuesday, June 9. 2009Bloodstock ‘Metal 2 the Masses’ Update LATEST NEW BLOOD Well over half way in to Bloodstock’s METAL2THEMASSES final’s with venues from around the UK and Ireland playing host to the absolute BEST the unsigned metal scene has to offer all vying to get a slot on this years Bloodstock Unsigned Stage – the competition this year is incredibly tough as there are so many bands deserving of a slot – Metal2The Masses organiser Simon Hall said “we just know you’re gonna be blown away by the sheer quality of the Bloodstock Unsigned stage this year.” Latest bands confirmed for a slot at Bloodstock are Alternative Carpark, Bisonhammer, Bloodshot Dawn, Divine Chaos, Ventflow, Snakebite and Sanctorum. LINE UP SO FAR: Europe, Carcass, Arch Enemy, Blind Guardian, Cradle Of Filth, Fear factory, Saxon, Amon Amarth, Satyricon, Apocalyptica, Enslaved, Candlemass, Municipal Waste, The Haunted, Katatonia, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Kreator, Equilibrium, Turisas, Battlelore, Sabaton, Girlschool, Moonspell, Million Dollar Reload, Beholder, Arthemis, Celesty, Pythia, Gods of hellfire, Internal Conflict, Nefarious, The Green River Project, They will Rise, Vallenbrosa, Inner Eden, Solsikk, Alternative Carpark, Bisonhammer, Ventflow, Divine Chaos, Snakebite, Sanctorum ... loads more to be announced Tickets are selling faster than ever so if you haven’t got yours yet don’t miss out on the biggest Metal Party on the 2009 calendar –TO BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW CLICK HERE . Regards Bloodstock Team Thursday, June 4. 20092009 Guitar Hero Heat Driffs It`s Way To Playstation Good news to all Playstation 3 Guitar Hero Fans! Bloodstock has recently expanded its heats from Xbox Live to also the Playstation Network! The competition that offers fantastic prizes to its winners to find the official, “Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2009 – Guitar Hero Metallica Champion” started the heats on Xbox Live from the 8th May 2009; the heats are currently taking place fortnightly from 7pm to 10pm on Xbox Live; and will correspondingly follow the same layout over on ‘Playstation Network’.Although the heats allow gamers to pick between Guitar Hero: 3 and Guitar Hero World Tour, the latest release by Activision, Guitar Hero: Metallica, will be used as the ultimate game in the finals – in which take place at the festival on the 14th, 15th and 16th August 2009. Moreover, Bloodstock has recently announced the brilliant, band function to its competition. Allowing Guitarists to be backed by their very own set if they wish, (consisting of a drummer and Vocalist), in an attempt to destroy all other bands in their path! Furthermore, if letting the power of your voice join forces with the might of the sticks and the nimble fingered Gods of the Guitars in this year's festival mayhem interests you. If you believe you can scream out some vocals, spin some riffs or explode on the drums – then now is your chance to impress your friends and peers in the ‘Bloodstock Open Guitar Hero Metallica 2009’, competition extravaganza. Now that the gates have been amplified, attracting more potential “Guitar Hero Champions” from across the world, the benchmark and challenge will be greater. Therefore, all who wish to qualify in the heats to win an amazing place in the final get practising on those dodgy solos, hardcore beats or long-winded vocals, to make you, the undisputed “Guitar Hero Champion” of 2009. The competition can simply be entered by emailing your Playstation 3 tag or Xbox Live Gamer tag to one of the following email addresses: : will@bloodstock.uk.com or adam@bloodstock.uk.com . Further information about the competition can be found at the following Here . The 2009 heats can additionally be monitored on the new official ‘Bloodstock Guitar Hero: Metallica Facebook Fan Page’ Here . Regards Bloodstock Team |
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