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Are you getting excited to be at BLOODSTOCK in just 10 weeks time?  Started planning which bands are on your “must-see” list yet?  Here’s twelve more bands for you to consider, added to Thursday’s line-up on the New Blood stage, chosen from online submissions. The remaining days bands will be chosen from the winners of 2021’s Metal 2 The Masses finals, set to happen in July.  

Joining the line up are: power metal crew Battle Born, Brighton doomsters Halveksia, Odysseus who blend tech death & prog metal, Bournemouth alt rockers Solcura, deathcore brutalists Casket Feeder, London headbangers Slavesteel, blues-infused metalheads The Best Medicine, death metal disciples Godeater, Sheffield sludgers Kurokuma, trad death squad Pemphigoid, Huddersfield thrash beasts Riptide, and As The World Dies who bring their prog-death from Birmingham.  

If you like your metal with an ice cold shot of the devil’s best Jagermeister on the side, BLOODSTOCK’s pleased to introduce you to eight further acts you can check out on the Jager Stage over the 5-day extravaganza: fuzz rockers Milliner featuring members of Jaya The Cat, Manchester extremists Tortured Demon, East Mids classic rockers Shackled, King Corpse who add doom/groove from the Black Country, power trio Bad Earth, satanic blues/doom-stoners Master Charger, Birmingham prog rockers Axiom, and last but not least, alt-rock duo Ghosts of Men.  

First timer at BLOODSTOCK? Welcome! Check out the vibe in store via this new video clip.

If you need a new tent this year, Fat Frank’s Camping Store have got you!  You can pre-order anything and everything you need and collect it all on-site. Have them blow up your air bed while you wait, or even ‘rent-a-tent’ from them for the weekend.  Not only that, if you’re not driving to the festival, they also solve the problem of towing it all home on the train with their ‘festival bag’ service, where they’ll deliver all your kit back to your home address within 3-5 days post-event. 

BLOODSTOCK’s 2021 main stage headliners are DEVIN TOWNSEND (Friday), KREATOR (Saturday), and JUDAS PRIEST (Sunday).  The festival will also feature sets from SKINDRED, CRADLE OF FILTH, PARADISE LOST, BURY TOMORROW, DIAMOND HEAD, THERAPY?, VENOM PRISON, JINJER, VIO-LENCE, SAXON, THE WILDHEARTS, GLORYHAMMER, DARK TRANQUILLITY, BLEED FROM WITHIN, NAPALM DEATH, ONSLAUGHT, PHIL CAMPBELL & THE BASTARD SONS, MEMORIAM, BEHOLDER, RAMAGE INC., GREEN LUNG, CONJURER, ORANGE GOBLIN, THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA, RAGING SPEEDHORN, UNLEASH THE ARCHERS, SYLOSIS, WINTERFYLLETH, HACKTIVIST, THE CRAWLING, EVIL SCARECROW, ACID REIGN, SVALBARD, BORSTAL, SEIDRBLOT, NOCTEM, MOTHER VULTURE, BLOODSHOT DAWN, EVILE and many more.  Even more bands performing across the long weekend are still to be announced. 

Standard weekend tickets for the extended, now 5-day event in 2021 remain under a temporary price freeze at £145 (+ booking fees). In addition, child tickets and parking tickets for 2021’s event are available now at the ticket store, as well as a limited number of day tickets for Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun.  Wednesday’s fun remains exclusively for weekend ticket holders. VIP and campervan tickets for 2021 are sold out.   

Grab your BLOODSTOCK merch here, including new t-shirt designs & hoodies.   

BLOODSTOCK 2021 takes place at Catton Park, Derbyshire from 11th-15th August 2021