Bloodstock wants to find the hottest new metal talent to appear across festival weekend next August! With weekend tickets for Bloodstock 2025 now sold out, festival HQ is getting cracking on this year’s installment of the phenomenally successful Metal 2 the Masses (M2TM) scheme to fill out the bands who’ll be appearing on the New Blood stage, in conjunction with sponsor Timothy Taylor.
No other festival does more to grassroots metal and local venues in the UK. Bloodstock was honoured to be recognised for this at the Heavy Music Awards earlier this summer, taking home the top accolade, the H Award, for exceptional positive contribution to the heavy music scene by way of the M2TM initiative.
There are 31 regions already confirmed to take part this year, ensuring regional heats the length and breadth of the country (plus Cyprus and Poland for good measure), making this the biggest Metal 2 the Masses scheme yet!
The list of participating regions this year includes:
London | Cyprus | Bristol | Coventry | Burnley | Devon & Cornwall | Merseyside | Brighton | Oxford | Northants | Nottingham | Stoke | Cheltenham | Kent | Newcastle | Hitchin | South Wales | North Wales | Norway | Somerset | Birmingham | East Anglia | Essex | Manchester | Southampton | Leicester | Sheffield | Leeds | Belfast | Scotland | Poland
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If you’re in a self-released or unsigned band and want to try out for a slot on the Bloodstock bill, get in touch with the region nearest you and get yourselves involved! After a series of heats, one winner from each region will secure a slot on the New Blood stage, and some of the very best runners-up may also get lucky, space permitting. Bands should get their applications into their nearest regional promoter ASAP, as the first heats kick off in the coming weeks. Any local promoters in regions not yet represented can email Simon Hall ([email protected]) for information if they wish to host the scheme in their local area.
Full details of venues and who to to enter in each region can be found here, or on Facebook.
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BLOODSTOCK’s 2025 Ronnie James Dio stage headliners are TRIVIUM, MACHINE HEAD, and GOJIRA. Headlining the Sophie Lancaster stage will be ME AND THAT MAN, KATAKLYSM, STATIC-X, and OBITUARY. You’ll also be able to see MASTODON, NAILBOMB, MINISTRY, EMPEROR, FEAR FACTORY, LACUNA COIL, HERIOT, ORANGE GOBLIN, CREEPER, KUBLAI KHAN TX, CAGE FIGHT, RIVERS OF NIHIL, FLOTSAM & JETSAM, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, FEUERSCHWANZ, LORD OF THE LOST, PALEFACE SWISS, AUGUST BURNS RED, WARBRINGER, UNDEATH, SPIRIT ADRIFT, THROWN, ALL FOR METAL, BREED 77, HIGH PARASITE, and 3 INCHES OF BLOOD.
Get full festival information over at bloodstock.uk.com. Watch a trailer here.
Bloodstock will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 7th-10th August 2025.
