It’s an afternoon of festival news here at Rock Sins. Having just updated our readers on the twenty new bands playing Download Festival next year, it’s now time to talk about the first batch of bands for Bloodstock Open Air 2022! First announced at this years’ Bloodstock Festival shortly before Friday nights’ excellent headliner Devin…
Over the last couple of weeks there’s been even more festival announcements than usual for this time of year. So, we thought we would try and round them all up in one handy place for our readers to get a full fix of festival updates and news. Firstly, there’s been a couple of recent updates…
Bloodstock promised they would announce their final two 2020 headliners before Halloween. And oh how they have delivered. You can almost hear the words coming from Rob Halford’s mouth now – “Oh Bloodstock The Priest Is Back!”. That’s right, celebrating their 50th anniversary, Judas Priest are bringing their 50 Years Of Heavy Metal celebration to…
A few days ago, we got the first headliner for ArcTanGent and now it’s the turn of Bloodstock Open Air to unveil their first festival headliner for 2019! And it’s a doozy. After wow’ing the devotees of Catton Hall on their special guest slot before Trivium in 2015, many said it was only a matter…
Our team are still recovering from an amazing weekend at Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2017. But, fresh from the festival itself, at Catton Hall on Saturday night they announced not one but two of the headliners for next year’s Bloodstock! After a decade away, Scandinavian symphonic metal giants Nightwish will be returning to BOA to…
With little over a month to go until metalheads descend upon Catton Park for another year, now seems the right time to discover the many reasons to prepare for your Bloodstock Festival in advance – and punch the air if you already have your ticket. First and foremost, Bloodstock are leading the way for click…
Legendary Californian speed thrash metal band Slayer has been confirmed to close next year’s Bloodstock Festival in Derbyshire next August. The fearsome foursome will top the bill on Sunday, following fellow headliners Twisted Sister (Friday) and Mastodon (Saturday). Kerry King and co. made their Bloodstock debut in 2013 just three months after the sad death…
Hot off the presses, we have the latest news from the world of Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2013 with two new bands, and also some catch up on some rather important news from last week that we didn’t manage to publish. Last week, Bloodstock announced their second headliners for the 2013 edition of the festival…
Incase you missed the news when it broke at the end of last week, we thought we would bring our readers up to date with the bombshell that, after many years of being linked and rumoured for the festival, the legendary King Diamond is the first confirmed headliner for Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2013. This…
Hot off the presses the awesome people at Bloodstock have announced the first two bands to grace Catton Hall in August 2012. Hitting the Ronnie James Dio stage will be heavy metal’s never give up, never say die veterans Anvil while Orange Goblin are to bring their stoner metal grooves to the Sophie Lancaster stage….
