Bloodstock
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| Location(s) | Derby, England |
| Years active | 2001 - present |
| Date(s) | Various - Usually September |
| Genre(s) | Metal. |
- Bloodstock can also refer to the industry of breeding and trading thoroughbred race horses. See Thoroughbred
Bloodstock is an annual metal music festival held over two days in The Assembly Rooms, Derby, England. The event features big-name mainstream, underground and new bands split between two stages, as well as a 'Metal Market' offering general genre merchandise (such as T-Shirts and jewellery) and CDs. The festival is well known for showcasing international bands for the first time in the UK, and have debuted, amongst others, Blind Guardian and Nightwish. A separate spin off open-air festival called Bloodstock Open Air was launched in 2005 to complement the indoor version.
The festival usually takes place over the first weekend in September each year, but in 2006 the event was moved to the last weekend (29-30 September). Bloodstock attracts metal music fans of all ages and also has an enthusiastic attendance from members of several media organisations including national broadsheet newspaper, the Daily Telegraph.
Bloodstock also offers fans the opportunity to meet the bands at signing sessions and socialise at a number of bars within the Assembly Rooms complex. The festival organisers offer programmes and official T-Shirts for sale.
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[edit] Line-ups
[edit] 2001 (28th May)
Great Hall - Area 54; Dirty Deeds; Glenn Hughes; Primal Fear; Saxon; Shadowkeep; Skyclad
Darwin Suite - Bloodstream; Consumed; Evoke; Freebase; Occupational Hazard; Orange Goblin; Return To The Sabbat; Underule
[edit] 2002 (31st August)
Great Hall - Balance Of Power; Biochemical; Blind Guardian; Diamond Head; Freedom Call; Gamma Ray; Threshold
Darwin Suite - Bal-Sagoth; Elvenking; Enemymaker888; Infobia; Primordial; Return To The Sabbat; Twelvepointhead
[edit] 2003 (30th August)
Main Hall - Dragonforce; Edguy; Masterplan; Nightwish; Paradise Lost; Saracen
Darwin Suite - Bates Motel; Biomechanical; Bumsnogger; Cruel Humanity; Fourwaykill; Fulc; Illuminatus; Invey; Ninedenine; Waylander
[edit] 2004 (3rd - 4th September)
Main Hall (3rd September) - Gamma Ray; Illuminatus; Infobia; Sinergy; Threshold
Darwin Suite (3rd September) - Invey; Liquid Sky; Season's End; Super Massive Object
Main Hall (4th September) - Balance Of Power; Children Of Bodom ; Edenbridge; Evergrey; Intense; Panic Cell; Primal Fear; Sonata Arctica
Darwin Suite (4th September) - Cruachan; Fourwaykill; Gutworm; Humanity; Nowhwere Near The Garden; Rezin 69; Seven Years Dead; The Prophecy
[edit] 2005 (2nd - 3rd September)
Main Stage (2nd September)]] - HammerFall; Metalium; Reckless Tide; Stormwarrior
Darwin Stage (2nd September) - Conquest Of Steel; Deliverance; Warchild; Zillah
Main Stage (3rd September) - After Forever; Amon Amarth; Bob Catley; Iron Saviour; Raven; Rise To Addiction; Season’s End ; Suidakra; Within Temptation
Darwin Stage (3rd September) - Balance Of Silence; Cathedral; Dreadnought; Jesus Fix; Kingsize Blues; Mfkzt; Projekt; Soliloquy
[edit] 2006 (29th September)
Main Hall - Axel Rudi Pell; Death Stars; Illuminatus; Machine Men; Majesty; Marshall Law ; My Dying Bride; Omnium Gatherum ; Primal Fear; Tourettes Syndrome
Darwin Stage - Agankast; Awaken; Beyond Afterlife; Bloody Embrace; Captive Audio; Deadfall; Died Smiling; Eden; Enemy Unknown; Hostile; Isaiah; Mael Mordha; Steel Tormentor; Sworn Amongst; To-Mera; Vanden Plas
[edit] 2007 Confirmed bands
Main Stage - Blitzkrieg; Power Quest; Sinner
