Bloodstock

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Bloodstock was 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 jewelry) 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.

Line-ups

2001 (28th May)

Darwin Suite - Bloodstream; Consumed; Evoke; Freebase; Occupational Hazard; Orange Goblin; Return to the Sabbat; Underule

2002 (31st August)

Darwin Suite - Bal-Sagoth; Elvenking; Enemymaker888; Infobia; Primordial; Return to the Sabbat; Twelvepointhead

2003 (30th August)

Darwin Suite - Bates Motel; Biomechanical; Bumsnogger; Cruel Humanity; Fourwaykill; Fulc; Illuminatus; Invey; Ninedenine; Waylander

2004 (3rd - 4th September)

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

2005 (2nd - 3rd September)

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; Kyrb Grinder; Mfkzt; Projekt; Soliloquy

2006 (29th September)

Darwin Stage - Agankast; Awaken; Beyond Afterlife; Bloody Embrace; Captive Audio; Deadfall; Died Smiling; Eden; Enemy Unknown; Hostile; Isaiah; Mael Mórdha; Steel Tormentor; Sworn Amongst; To-Mera; Vanden Plas

See also

• Bloodstock Open Air
• List of music festivals in the United Kingdom

External links

• Official web site