This is the third time that Malevolence have played Derbyshire’s Bloodstock festival: an early main-stage performance, a legendary set on the Sophie stage, and now this. In the words of frontman Alex Taylor, today’s is the “big boy” slot, subbing Saturday headliners Architects.
To say that Sheffield’s bruisers-in-chief seem excited at their elevation would be an understatement. There’s probably no band you’ll see all summer who are as visibly fired up as Malevolence are today. Alex might be a hulk of a man, with a roar reminiscent of a grizzly bear stubbing its toe on an anvil, but he spends the entirety of this set grinning like a toddler at Christmas.
