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Along with the headliners tonight, I had seen England based metalcore outfit MALEFICE earlier in the year at the Bloodstock Open Air festival. MALEFICE did a good job of getting the crowd going with a lively on stage presence, and ...

As the latest leg of the Killfest tour rolled into Sheffield, a healthy sized crowd flooded into the venue for a night of metal old and new. Main support came in the form of Canadian outfit, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD whose brand of modern heavy metal went down an absolute ...

It's that time of year again, where nearly 12,000 metalheads come together in unity for a weekend of laughs, great atmosphere, booze, and of course lashings of pure heavy metal! It can only be Bloodstock Open Air, and this year's ...

Entering the main hall at Rock City, the venue was already packed for instrumental progressive metal outfit ANIMALS AS LEADERS, who were doing a great job both getting the crowd going and serving as a very good warm up ...

An already healthy sized crowd was waiting in anticipation for German experimental outfit THE OCEAN to hit the stage, and when they did, the fans seemed to lap up every single moment of their hour set. What did impress ...

One of the most popular and well known bands to come out of the Black Metal scene, coupled with the fact that they were playing one of their classic albums in its entirety, it came as no surprise ...

An hour after the doors had opened, American metalcore outfit STRAIGHT LINE STITCH hit the stage to perform their 30 minute slot. The sound wasn't great throughout their set, with the vocals being the most obvious downfall. Too ...

It's always hard to tell how a support band will be received beforehand, especially when they and the headline act vary in style. Fortunately, there were more than a few hardened black metal fans in attendance tonight, ...

With the venue already at near capacity, I managed to catch the end of FURY UK's set with 'Call To Arms' and the superb 'Death By Lightning' coming across very well live. I have seen these guys a few times live before and always enjoyed their sets. They have some ...

Bloodstock Open Air is the one UK true metal festival that is always looked forward to each year by the true heavy metal fans. The festival has been supporting the metal scene for a decade now, and is for the ...