Bloodstock Open Air

Das Bloodstock Open Air ist ein jährlich im August stattfindendes Heavy-Metal-Festival in der englischen Ortschaft Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Das Festival fand erstmals im Jahre 2005 statt. Nach eigenen Angaben ist es das größte unabhängige Metal-Festival im Vereinigten Königreich. Bei den Kerrang! Awards 2016 wurde das Bloodstock Open Air als bestes Festival ausgezeichnet.[2]

Zwischen 2001 und 2006 gab es auch ein Hallenfestival, bei dessen erster Ausgabe gerade 700 Zuschauer kamen.[3] Das Festival begann als zweitägige Veranstaltung auf einer Bühne. Seit 2009 gibt es vier Bühnen, wobei die dritte und vierte Bühne in der Regel lokalen Bands und Newcomern vorbehalten sind. Wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie fand das Festival 2020 erstmals nicht statt.

Bands

2005

Main Stage
Freitag	Samstag
Sebastian Bach Mostly Autumn Breed 77 Gotthard Panic Cell	Children of Bodom Paradise Lost Edguy Masterplan Evergrey Humanity Fourwaykill

2006

Main Stage
Freitag	Samstag
Edguy Metal Church Atheist Nocturnal Rites Rage Pyramaze	Stratovarius Turisas Bal-Sagoth Ensiferum Callenish Circle Gorilla Monsoon Season's End Ashtar 19th Century

2007

Main Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag
Testament Firewind Head On Kiuas Sight of Emptiness Chris Slade	Lacuna Coil Dark Tranquillity Nevermore Epica Korpiklaani Memfis Wolf Scar Symmetry Voodoo Six Exploder	In Flames Arch Enemy Sabbat Dream Evil Finntroll Legion of the Damned Benediction Freedom Call Rise to Addiction Beyond All Reason

2008

Main Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Opeth Helloween Soulfly Primal Fear Destruction Akercocke Týr Praying Mantis Evile Saint Deamon	Dimmu Borgir Iced Earth Soilwork Napalm Death Moonsorrow Communic Swallow the Sun Eluveitie Rise to Remain Cloudscape Evil Scarecrow	Nightwish At the Gates Overkill As I Lay Dying Kataklysm Mob Rules Grand Magus Alestorm Crowning Glory Heaven's Basement

2009

Main Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Carcass Arch Enemy Saxon Sodom Katatonia Municipal Waste Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Insomnium Million Dollar Reload Blitzkrieg	Cradle of Filth Blind Guardian Apocalyptica Kreator Enslaved Candlemass Entombed The Haunted Wolf Battlelore Uncle Rotter	Europe Satyricon Amon Amarth Moonspell Turisas Anathema Equilibrium Girlschool Sabaton Beholder

2010

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Opeth Meshuggah Sonata Arctica Gorgoroth Cathedral Ensiferum Rage Ross the Boss Black Spiders Snakebite	Children of Bodom Fear Factory The Devin Townsend Project Amorphis Obituary Edguy Onslaught Evile Leaves' Eyes Andromeda	Twisted Sister Cannibal Corpse Bloodbath Gojira Gwar Korpiklaani Doro Holy Moses Suffocation Bonded by Blood

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Desecration Hospital of Death	Powerwolf Enforcer Steelwing Collapse	Sylosis Benediction Regardless of Me Mordecai	Killing Machine Winterfylleth Witchsorrow The Prophecy Purified in Blood

2011

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
W.A.S.P. The Devin Townsend Project Kreator Coroner Triptykon Poisonblack Forbidden Wolf The Defiled	Immortal Rhapsody of Fire Therion Wintersun Ihsahn Finntroll Tarot Grave Digger Skeletonwitch	Motörhead Morbid Angel At the Gates Exodus HammerFall Napalm Death Primordial 1349 Hell

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Steve Hughes Jason Rouse Beholder Revoker Xerath Achren	Lawnmower Deth October File Byfrost Arthemis Romeo Must Die Cerebral Bore Imicus Mortad	Keith Platt Stephen Hill Angel Witch The Rotted Deadly Circus Fire Hammer of the Gods Def-Con-One Blake Dripback	Steve Hughes Jason Rouse Criminal Amaranthe Power Quest Survivors Zero Hellish Outcast Nemhain Evil Scarecrow Grand Ultra

2012

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Behemoth Dio Disciples Watain Sepultura Iced Earth Moonsorrow Grand Magus Freedom Call Malefice	Machine Head Testament Hatebreed Sanctuary Mayhem Crowbar Chthonic I Am I Benediction	Alice Cooper Dimmu Borgir Paradise Lost Anvil Evile The Black Dahlia Murder Nile Corrosion of Conformity Kobra and the Lotus

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Viking Skull Marionette Bloodshot Dawn Saturnian	Dirty Sanchez Alcest Eastern Front Pythia Death Valley Knights Derision Sweet Savage Primitai Gonoreas Commander in Chief	Orange Goblin Sight of Emptiness Witchsorrow Winterfylleth Furyon Rising Dream Infernal Tenebra Dripback Savage Messiah Splintered Soul	Anaal Nathrakh Headcharger Demonic Resurrection Nociferia Ancient Ascendant Crimes of Passion Battalion Flayed Disciple Re-Armed

2013

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
King Diamond Accept Voivod Municipal Waste Dark Funeral Firewind Ex Deo Death Angel Earthtone9	Lamb of God Avantasia Sabaton Gojira Kataklysm Hell 3 Inches of Blood Beholder Stormbringer	Slayer Anthrax DevilDriver Exodus Amorphis Fozzy Sacred Mother Tongue Whitechapel Gama Bomb

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Tragedy Ravenage OAF Bull-Riff Stampede Motherload	Scar Symmetry Xentrix Xerath Cypher 16 Skiltron The Prophecy Shrapnel Bloodbound Absolva The Way of Purity	Last in Line Power Quest NeonFly Mael Mordha Scarab Betraeus Vanderbuyst Sworn Amongst Unfathomable Ruination	Dying Fetus Wolfsbane Belphegor Breed77 Gormathon Evil Scarecrow Bossk RSJ Grifter States of Panic Lifer

2014

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Down Dimmu Borgir Hatebreed Triptykon Prong Flotsam and Jetsam Primordial Entombed A.D. Bloodshot Dawn	Emperor Carcass Children of Bodom Lacuna Coil Crowbar Orphaned Land Decapitated Shining Evil Scarecrow	Megadeth Amon Amarth Saxon Obituary Avatar Biohazard ReVamp Aborted Arthemis

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Jaldaboath Monument Incinery Gehtika Ballsdeep	Rotting Christ Skyclad Diabolical Winterfylleth Deals Death Zerozonic De Profundis Krokodil Aghast! Cambion Gurt	Hellyeah Sister Sin Battleaxe Blood Red Throne Obsidian Kingdom Conquest of Steel The Mercy House Old Corpse Road Profane Omen The King Is Blind Babylon Fire	Satan Graveyard Collibus Krow Stormzone Stahlsarg Voices Morgue Orgy Haerken October File Aaron Keylock

2015

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Trivium Sabaton Overkill Ihsahn Enslaved Belphegor Armored Saint Raging Speedhorn Nuclear Assault	Within Temptation Opeth Death DTA Dark Angel Napalm Death Korpiklaani 1349 Xerath Savage Messiah	Rob Zombie Black Label Society Cannibal Corpse Ensiferum Sepultura Pro Pain Orange Goblin Wolf Agalloch

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
ArnoCorps Red Rum Desecration Metaprism Reign of Fury	Delain Conan I Am I Hang the Bastard Fire Red Empress Ne Obliviscaris Re-Animator Messiah's Kiss Bast Oaf Silas	Fleshgod Apocalypse Jettblack Planet of Zeus Burgerkill Mordred Battalion Godsized Jasad Ethereal Ageless Oblivion Anihilated Pist	Godflesh Onslaught Trepalium Lawnmower Deth Destrage Saille Ol Drake Alunah Villainy Dead Label The Izuna Drop Triaxis

2016

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Twisted Sister Behemoth Venom Corrosion of Conformity Misery Loves Co. Stuck Mojo Evil Scarecrow Gloryhammer Hark	Mastodon Gojira Paradise Lost Fear Factory Rotting Christ Akercocke Vallenfyre Kill II This Cambion	Slayer Anthrax Symphony X DragonForce Satyricon Metal Allegiance Unearth Heart of a Coward Ghost Bath

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Phil Campbell´s All Starr Band Psykosis Sumer Karybdis Sublime Eyes	Diamond Head Beyond the Black Beholder XII Boar Foetal Juice The Charm the Fury Meta-Stasis Anti-Clone Brutai Boss Keloid Fury	Acid Reign Shining Bull-Riff Stampede One Machine Misanthrope Vodun The King Is Blind This Is Turin The Raven Age Mage The Heretic Order	Goatwhore Pythia Memoriam Vektor Whispered Derange Witchsorrow Divine Chaos Krysthla Sanguine Desert Storm

2017

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Amon Amarth Blind Guardian Testament Decapitated Soilwork Devilment Whitechapel Chelsea Grin Forever Still	Ghost Kreator Hatebreed Municipal Waste Annihilator King 810 Havok Winterfylleth Fallujah	Megadeth Arch Enemy Skindred Hell Brujeria Obituary Possessed Venom Prison Broken Teeth

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Battle Beast Wind Rose The Infernal Sea Gurt Ramage Inc	Inquisition Lionize Shrapnel Black Moth Season's End Dendera Morass of Molasses Corpsing Endeavour Internal Conflict Iron Rat	Macabre Xentrix OHHMS Red Rum Florence Black GODS Abhorrent Decimation The One Hundred Kroh Eradikator Blind River	Wintersun Bossk Arthemis Criminal ONI Wolfheart Puppy Courtesans Wretched Soul Blind Haze GraVil

2018

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Judas Priest Emperor Kamelot Lovebites Bloodbath Wednesday 13 Memoriam Onslaught Feed the Rhino	Gojira Cannibal Corpse Alestorm Combichrist Venom Inc. Septicflesh Orden Ogan Power Trip Nailed to Obscurity	Nightwish At the Gates DevilDriver Mr. Big Jasta Fozzy Amaranthe Evergrey Monument

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Arkona Bloodshot Dawn Skiltron Fire Red Empress Hundred Year Old Man	Doro Bleed from Within Suicidal Tendencies Ingested De Profundis Reprisal Sodomized Cadaver Godthrymm Fahran Mortishead Deity's Muse	Orphaned Land Exhorder With the Dead Voyager A Forest of Stars Vola Conjurer Dead Label Weight of the Tide Limb Forgotten Remains	Watain Pallbearer Act of Defiance Mantar Demonic Resurrection Underside Sangre Alien Weaponry King Leviathan Uncured Doomsday Outlaw

2019

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Sabaton Powerwolf TesseracT Children of Bodom Soulfly Metal Church Death Angel Incite	Parkway Drive Anthrax Cradle of Filth Code Orange Thy Art Is Murder Evil Scarecrow Swallow the Sun Cancer Bats Krysthla	Scorpions Dimmu Borgir Queensryche Dee Snider Hypocrisy Soilwork Ross the Boss Aborted All Hail the Yeti

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Rotting Christ Ten Ton Slug Footprints in the Custard Blind River Barbarian Hermit	Grand Magus Raging Speedhorn Countless Skies Sulpher Damnation's Hammer BongCauldron Def Con One Blasphemer Zealot Cult	Taake Skeletal Remains Generation Kill 3 Headed Snake Dust Bolt Red Method Shvpes	Eluveitie The Lazys Resin Boss Keloid Witch Tripper Harbinger

2020

Das Festival fand 2020 wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie nicht statt und wurde im Mai auf 2021 verschoben.[4]

2021

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
Devin Townsend Skindred Phillip H. Anselmo & The Illegals Dark Tranquillity Sacred Reich	Behemoth Paradise Lost Bury Tomorrow Vio-lence Jinjer Sylosis Toxic Holocaust Conjurer	Judas Priest Saxon Gloryhammer The Black Dahlia Murder Orange Goblin Life of Agony Diamond Head Butcher Babies

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Donnerstag	Freitag	Samstag	Sonntag
The Night Flight Orchestra Nekrogoblikon The Crawling Raised by Owls Anakim	Bloodywood Bossk Exhumed Necrot	Cattle Decapitation Memoriam Ramage Inc Winterfylleth	Hatebreed Green Lung Unleash the Archers

Einzelnachweise

1. Alan Daly: Bloodstock Open Air 2018 Review – Thursday, August 9th 2018. My Global Mind, abgerufen am 26. Oktober 2018 (englisch).
2. Kerrang! Awards 2016: The Winners! Kerrang!, abgerufen am 26. Oktober 2018 (englisch).
3. Remfry Dedmen: Bloodstock Festival and the Art of Metal. The Independent, abgerufen am 26. Oktober 2018 (englisch).
4. Jennifer Coleman: BLOODSTOCK HQ ISSUES STATEMENT ABOUT THIS YEARS FESTIVAL - Bloodstock metal news. In: Bloodstock News. 4. Mai 2020 (englisch).

Weblinks

• Offizielle Website