Bloodstock Festival Add Final Metal 2 The Masses Winner And A New Addition To The Sophie Lancaster Stage
The Bloodstock Festival has always prided itself on promoting unsigned bands and introducing new talent to the world of metal. Over the years this stage has helped to further the careers of now established and rising bands such as Evile, Exit Ten, Forever Never, The Defiled, Ted Maul and The Bezerker. This year will see Evile play the main stage of Bloodstock Festival and the Bohemia Stage at Sonisphere Festival as their stock will continue to rise. Snakebite are another main stage band at this year's Bloodstock Festival who won the unsigned band of the festival at last year's Bloodstock that has also meant that they will have the chance to play at this year's Wacken Open Air Festival. Wacken is Europe's largest and certainly most prestigious metal festival.
With less than four weeks until the start of this years Bloodstock Festival the final Metal 2 The Masses winners have been announced. For those of you who are not aware of this competition it is a travelling battle of the bands format competition with many of the UK's unsigned talent competing for the chance to play on Bloodstock's unsigned stage.
Bournemouth's M2TM winner is FLAYED DISCIPLE a Somerset based Death/Trash Metal band that have already played alongside Trigger The Bloodshed, The Rotted and Descecration amongst others. Check them out on their Myspace and on their official site.
There has been another addition to the Sophie Lancaster stage too as Bloodstock are proud to announce the addition of British up and comers Collapse. They combine the sound of European metal acts such as The Haunted and Carcass with the groove of US acts like Pantera and Lamb Of God which should fair well with the Bloodstock faithful.
Collapse frontman Duncan Wilkinson had this to say: “We can’t wait to play Bloodstock! And on Friday the 13th too! Not only is it perfect timing for us as we’ve just finished in the studio, but it will also see us sharing the stage with some of our personal heroes and musical influences. Bloodstock has gone from strength to strength and this year looks set to be a real stormer. See you down the front “
You can check them out on their Myspace page.
This year sees the Bloodstock Open Air festival celebrate its 10th year of existence though it was based solely indoors until 2005 when it moved outdoors. Over the 10 years Bloodstock has risen in stature and is now the biggest and most prestigious independent metal festival in the country. Legendary Heaven & Hell were due to headline the festival until the unfortunate passing of Ronny James Dio. This year sees headline performances from Twisted Sister, Opeth, Children Of Bodom, Fear Factory and a special guest appearance from Meshuggah. Bloodstock can boast more exclusive festival appearances than any other festival of a similar nature in the country and has a star studded line up of some of the world's greatest metal acts: Behemoth, Bloodbath, Cannibal Corpse, Gojira, Sonata Artica, Edguy, Obituary, Suffocation, Gwar, Korpiklaani as well as up and coming British acts such as Sylosis, Evile and Black Spiders.
Any fans of metal should get themselves a ticket while they still can and come and enjoy the festivities with close to 12,000 other metal heads. The atmosphere is unlike anything you have ever experienced and the crowds are much smaller than the likes of Download, Sonisphere or Leeds/Reading (plus it is a damn sight cheaper). Visit the official website for more details here
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