Bloodstock Open Air – 7-10 August 2025 – Walton on Trent, UK

Bloodstock 2025 Announcement 19 bands just revealed including all headliners!

Friday’s headliner are the UK’s adopted sons, gargantuan riff goliaths Trivium

Saturday’s headliners are none other than masters of metal and mayhem, Machine Head

Sunday’s headliners dazzled the world with a gold-medal performance at the Olympics opening ceremony just two weeks ago...the almighty Gojira

Wrapping up Thursday night will be Nergal’s bewitching side project, Me And That Man

Friday night concludes with impressive Canadian death metal beasts Kataklysm

Saturday’s shenanigans, it’s Static-X

Floridian death metal to finish your neck off late on Sunday, so that can only mean the last band taking the stage at Bloodstock 2025 will be the legendary Obituary

Swooping in as special guests on Friday are influential black metal icons Emperor official

On the RJD Friday bill you’ll be able to catch:

Gothic metal act Lacuna Coil and in their only UK festival slot for 2025

The unmissable Orange Goblin

Shaking things up in the pit on Saturday’s RJD stage will be:

Boisterous horror punks Creeper Cult

Modern metal bruisers Kublai Khan TX

Joining the Ronnie James Dio line-up on Sunday will be:

Melo-death squad The Black Dahlia Murder

Medieval metalheads Feuerschwanz

Theatrical dark rockers Lord Of The Lost

Metalcore mainstays August Burns Red

Bloodstock is also delighted to reveal special guests on the Sophie Lancaster stage will be:

Norse-inspired warriors All For Metal (Thursday)

Flamenco metal fusionists Breed 77 (Saturday)

NWOBHM-meets-power-metal kings 3 Inches of Blood

Weekend early bird tickets (Thu-Sun) for Bloodstock 2025 are available to purchase at the box office on site for £175. Child weekend early bird’s are £45 (ages 4 -11). Mini moshers under age 4 can come for free.

Early Bird’s go on sale Monday 12th at 9am, VIP and Campervan go on sale Wednesday 14th at bloodstock.seetickets.com

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Bloodstock 2025 Announcement  13 more bands revealed for next summer’s metal extravaganza!

The Ronnie James Dio stage on Friday is pleased to welcome:
 Classic thrashers Flotsam and Jetsam
 Joining them will be hotly-tipped deathcore upstarts Paleface Swiss

The Ronnie James Dio stage on Saturday welcomes:
 Industrial metal Ministry jet in as RJD stage special guests, in their first ever BLOODSTOCK appearance.
 LA legends Fear Factory (playing their seminal 1995 album ‘Demanufacture’ in full!)
 Fast-rising metalcore moshers HERIOT
 Full-pelt thrash overlords Warbringer
 Furious hardcore bruisers Cage Fight

If you were having trouble picking your favourite day already, Sunday’s main stage addition won’t make it any easier:
 Adding boundary pushing, tech-death squad Rivers of Nihil

Still want more?

On Friday, the Sophie Lancaster stage is proud to confirm:
 The infamous and uber rare NAILBOMB.
 Self-proclaimed death popsters High Parasite (feat. Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride)

Saturday shenanigans, the Sophie stage now includes:
 New York-based, death metal crew Undeath
 Texan doom-come-trad-metal headbangers SPIRIT ADRIFT

Sophie stage, on Sunday sees:
 Brutal Swedish aggressors thrown join the affray on Sophie, on Sunday. We’ll see you down the front

Adult standard weekend tickets are now sold out! A limited number of day tickets will be available in due course, once more bands have been announced.

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If you already have a weekend ticket, Wednesday early access is available for an add-on cost of £25 for those who want to max out their Bloodstock experience, staying in any of the standard campsites or the campervan field. This option is not available at present for the VIP or accessible campsites bloodstock.seetickets.com

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Bloodstock is thrilled to announce that special guests on the Ronnie James Dio stage on Sunday will be….none other than highly revered, four-headed metal behemoth Mastodon as a UK ONLY show.

The group are just off the road in the USA with festival alumni pals LAMB OF GOD, dropping the collab track ‘Floods Of Triton’ to celebrate their co-headline Ashes Of Leviathan tour.

If you’re now extra crushed that you didn’t manage to snap up a weekend ticket before they sold out, we’ve got some good news…Bloodstock HQ has seen your social media posts and managed to acquire some extra camping space in a new field!

BLOODSTOCK 2025 ANNOUNCEMENT!

14 more bands are lined up to make your festival weekend go with a bang with the final Sophie Lancaster Stage bands revealed..

On the Sophie stage handling Thursday’s opening night party will be...

 High intensity deathcore beasts Dead Flesh

 Original BLOODSTOCK indoor alumnus Fourwaykill

 Belgium’s power trio Gnome

Treat your Friday bangover on the Sophie stage to...

 A hefty dose of Welsh black metalheads Ofnus

 Non-conforming tech/deathcorel extremists This Is Turin

 Belfast’s prog metal underdogs Lock Horns

 UKHC bruisers Rough Justice from Sheffield.

Livening up the Sophie tent on Saturday will be...

 Prog metal experimentalists IREOSIS

 Post metal soundscape crafters Vnder A Crvmbling Moon

 Sheffield’s blackened post metal crew Ba'al

 Underground pioneers PENGSHUi mixing up punk, metal, and grime

Save a bit of energy for Sunday’s shenanigans with..

 Psychedelic modern metal squad Apathy UK

 Groove-laden stoner doomsters Barbarian Hermit

 Cleveland, Ohio-based doom tribe Frayle

Grab your day tickets at bloodstock.seetickets.com

If you’re gifting, BLOODSTOCK have created a special downloadable certificate at the top of our ticket page! Get yours at bloodstock.seetickets.com