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"I came in like, ‘Doc, I know you like Rush. I’m in a metal band, we’re flying out in a week to go do one of our biggest shows in a long time. Any way you can help me out?’" An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy

Trivium frontman, streamer, dad, jiu-jitsu black belt... Matt Heafy is a man of many talents

Metal Hammer

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Megadeth, Lamb Of God and Avatar are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Louder

Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed

The UK heavy metal stalwarts will return to the top of the bill at the Derbyshire weekender, 25 years after they headlined the first-ever Bloodstock

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“When that album came out, everybody wanted to throw it in the bin”: Turbo may have been Judas Priest’s most controversial album, but Rob Halford hints at plans to play more of it live

Judas Priest’s frontman argues that their 1986 album has undergone some serious reappraisal since it came out

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Bloodstock review – this is the UK’s best fest for true heavy metal madness

Trivium bring the bells and whistles, Gojira are supercharged and Machine Head get 1,011 crowdsurfers as they etch themselves on extreme metal’s Mount Rushmore

The Guardian - UK

"They have a fanbase so ardent that one fella has rocked up in a band-branded suit of armour." Heriot battle technical issues but eventually win big at Bloodstock

One of the UK's most promising young metal bands put on a great show - but it wasn't without some hiccups

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"Curious true metal fans who came to judge the 'pop punk' band have clearly been won over." Creeper's Bloodstock debut is a dramatic triumph

Creeper would have looked out of place on Bloodstock a few years ago. Today they feel right at home

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Lacuna Coil's Bloodstock set shows they are a band operating at the peak of their powers

30 years into their career, Lacuna Coil are writing some of their very best music - and putting on some of their best live shows

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One of British metal's most important bands just played their final ever UK festival show - and it was one hell of a goodbye

Orange Goblin commemorate their 30th - and final - year with a barnstorming final UK festival performance at Bloodstock

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Sleep Token cameo, Black Sabbath jam, a surprise Robb Flynn...I think I might have just watched Trivium play their greatest festival set ever. Yep, even better than THAT Download one

Self-proclaimed "kings of metal" Trivium set an impossibly high bar headlining Friday night of Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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Lamb Of God, Slaughter To Prevail and Judas Priest to headline Bloodstock festival 2026; Sepultura, Bleed From Within and 20 other acts also confirmed

The four-day heavy metal festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary at Catton Park, Derbyshire from August 6 to 9

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“People are so passionate about it. It’s almost more important to some of them than watching the bands”: Bin Jousting is the insane heavy metal festival sport that the Olympics needs right now

How Bin Jousting went from after-dark guerrilla sport to Bloodstock fixture

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“Every time you post a snippet or a clip or some kind of teaser, it makes people more mad”: Trivium to release much-hyped new song in early August

Guitarist Corey Beaulieu says the track has the “spirit” of the band’s 2005 breakthrough album, Ascendancy

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One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years –but what are the chances of a new album?

Max Cavalera: “If it was all up to me, I’d love to do it”

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Bloodstock festival announces one-day Winter Gathering event headlined by doom legends Candlemass

Venom Inc., Hellripper and others will also populate the bill in Wolverhampton this December

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“Possibly the most aggressive, ignorant and direct song we have ever written.” Get your head caved in by nasty new Malevolence single Trenches

Hot off tours with Trivium, Lamb Of God, Mastodon and more, rising metalcore champions Malevolence have returned with a crushing new tune

Newcastle Herald

A Flemington favourite, Melbourne Cup aspirant and Big Dance trifecta

Local interest across interstate tracks amid Australia's iconic race.

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Mastodon join stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup

Mastodon will subheadline Sunday at Bloodstock, playing right before Gojira

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Watch rising doom metal shamans Green Lung bewitch Bloodstock festival in pro-shot footage

The folkloric up-and-comers will headline their biggest-ever UK shows in London and Manchester next year

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Bloodstock announces 13 bands - including an ultra-rare performance from Max Cavalera's Nailbomb - for 2025 and weekend tickets sell out

August's Bloodstock line-up just got even bigger with the likes of Ministry, Nailbomb and Fear Factory joining the bill

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The 10 bands that defined Bloodstock 2024

From Green Lung's massive midday set on Friday to Hatebreed's "Ball of Death", these are the sets that defined Bloodstock 2024.

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“They’re unquestionably ready for the big time”: Malevolence break records (and a good few bodies) with weekend-stealing Bloodstock set

At Bloodstock Open Air, Sheffield nasties Malevolence rile up a passionate crowd – to the point that they break a festival record for crowd-surfing

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“A good show as opposed to a legendary one”: Architects don’t quite rise to the occasion at first-ever UK festival headline show

At Bloodstock Open Air, Architects play a set stacked with modern anthems – but they don’t treat headlining a UK fest for the first time like it’s a big deal

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"We haven't done anything decent in 15 years. Message received." Opeth embrace the classics in old school Bloodstock headline set

Opeth's third time headlining Bloodstock shows just how they elevated extreme metal at the turn of the millennnium

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Watch footage of Lemmy tribute and exhibits at UK's Bloodstock Open Air Festival

Bloodstock 2024 is underway and late Motorhead frontman Lemmy is being celebrated in a number of ways

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