12 WEEKS TO BLOODSTOCK! THURSDAY NIGHT PLANS REVEALED!

BLOODSTOCK 2018 is all set to be the biggest yet, with tickets moving fast and set to sell out again in advance.  If you want to join us at Catton Park in August, don’t delay in grabbing your tickets! The countdown is now on, with just 12 weeks to go!

If you’re arriving early on Thursday to set up your pitch, we kick off the festival arrivals night in heavy duty style with five awesome bands on the Sophie Lancaster stage.

ARKONA (www.facebook.com/arkonarussia) headline the party, bringing their pagan/folk infused tunes all the way from Moscow, Russia.  The band’s current album, ‘Khram’ was released earlier this year. Check out ‘Shtorm’ taken from that release at https://youtu.be/7WXUq9q5RZc.  Portsmouth death metallers and 2009 ‘Metal 2 The Masses’ alumni BLOODSHOT DAWN (www.facebook.com/pg/BloodshotDawn) also land a slot.  Watch their official video for ‘Shackled’, taken from the recently released ‘Reanimation’ album; https://youtu.be/W79nOt56zq0.  Bringing their bagpipes to the bill are folk metal outfit SKILTRON (www.facebook.com/skiltron).  Check out the track ‘All Men Die’ from current album ‘Legacy of Blood’ and get a taster of their sound – https://youtu.be/BeZ-ERGprrI.

Riff-tastic rockers FIRE RED EMPRESS (www.facebook.com/fireredempress) also grab a place on the bill.  Their debut album, ‘Black Morphine’ arrived last year, featuring ‘Dead Nature’.  Check out that video; https://youtu.be/R4hkyKnfI2U.  Lastly, Leeds doomsters HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN (www.facebook.com/hundredyearoldman) open the festival proceedings!  The Leeds sludgesters recently released their debut album, ‘Breaching’ which you can stream or buy over at https://hundredyearoldman.bandcamp.com/.

Thinking about your route to BLOODSTOCK yet?  Official travel partner BIG GREEN COACH are more than happy to transport you, your mates and all your camping essentials from 23 pick-up points all over the country to right inside the BLOODSTOCK gates, having recently added Cambridge & Norwich due to customer demand!  For more details, watch https://youtu.be/wqT7Rt2B60E.  Alternatively, if you’re driving to the festival and have a space in your car, or are seeking a ride from your area, post your trip on GOCARSHARE’s website to match up with a friendly metaller and help each other ride to BLOODSTOCK!  You’ll even be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to next year’s festival just by using the GOCARSHARE scheme!  Full details over at http://gocarshare.com/festival/bloodstock.

Come join us in August!  Standard weekend tickets are on sale now, priced at £145 for four days of metal fun.  Grab yours at https://bloodstock.seetickets.com.  If you already know you can only attend for one day, sign up for an email reminder so you don’t miss out when a limited number of single day tickets go on sale at the end of June.  Register your interest here – https://www.seetickets.com/register/bloodstock.

With Friday night headliners JUDAS PRIEST, Saturday headliners GOJIRA and Sunday’s bill toppers NIGHTWISH announced, as well as EMPEROR, AT THE GATES, DEVILDRIVER, WATAIN, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, WEDNESDAY 13, JASTA & FRIENDS, FOZZY, COMBICHRIST, BLOODBATH, VENOM INC., MR BIG, ORPHANED LAND, KAMELOT, POWER TRIP, CONJURER, DORO, ORDEN OGAN, SEPTICFLESH, EXHORDER, PALLBEARER, MEMORIAM and many more, we’re more excited than ever for BLOODSTOCK 2018!

BLOODSTOCK will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 9th-12th August 2018.  Get additional information at www.bloodstock.uk.com.