Bloodstock

Bloodstock

Location(s)	Derby, England
Years active	2001–2006
Date(s)	Various - Usually September
Genre	Metal

Bloodstock can also refer to the industry of breeding and trading thoroughbred race horses. See Thoroughbred

For the spin-off open air festival, see Bloodstock Open Air

Bloodstock was an annual metal music festival held from 2001 to 2006 over two days in The Assembly Rooms, Derby, England. The event featured 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 was well known for showcasing international bands for the first time in the UK and have debuted, among 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 took place over the first weekend in September, but in 2006 the event was moved to the last weekend (29–30 September). Bloodstock attracted metal music fans of all ages and also had an enthusiastic attendance from members of several media organisations including national broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Bloodstock offered 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

	Monday 28th May
Great Hall	Saxon Glenn Hughes Blaze Skyclad Primal Fear Dirty Deeds Area 54 Shadowkeep
Darwin Suite	Orange Goblin Bloodstream Consumed Evoke Freebase Occupational Hazard Return to the Sabbat Underule

2002

	Saturday 31st August
Great Hall	Blind Guardian Gamma Ray Diamond Head Threshold Balance of Power Freedom Call Biomechanical
Darwin Suite	Return to the Sabbat Bal-Sagoth Elvenking Primordial Enemymaker888 Twelvepointhead Infobia

2003

	Friday 29th August	Saturday 30th August
Great Hall	Saxon Blaze Power Quest 5th Man Down	Nightwish Paradise Lost Edguy Masterplan DragonForce Saracen Mercury Rain
Darwin Suite	Biomechanical (video shoot)	Biomechanical F.U.L.C. Waylander Fourwaykill Invey Bates Motel Illuminatus Ninedenine Cruel Humanity Bumsnogger

2004

	Friday 3rd September	Saturday 4th September
Great Hall	Gamma Ray Threshold Sinergy Illuminatus Infobia	Children of Bodom Sonata Arctica Primal Fear Balance of Power Evergrey Edenbridge Panic Cell Intense
Darwin Suite	Season's End Invey Liquid Sky Super Massive Object	Fourwaykill Cruachan The Prophecy Gutworm Nowhere Near The Garden Humanity Seven Years Dead Rezin 69

2005

	Friday 2nd September	Saturday 3rd September
Great Hall	HammerFall Stormwarrior Metalium Reckless Tide	Within Temptation Amon Amarth After Forever Bob Catley Raven Iron Saviour Suidakra Season's End Rise To Addiction
Darwin Suite	Conquest Of Steel Warchild Deliverance Zillah	Cathedral Soliloquy Balance Of Silence Jesus Fix Kingsize Blues Kyrb Grinder Dreadnought Mfkzt Pro-jekt Osmium

2006

	Friday 29th September	Saturday 30th September
Great Hall	Primal Fear Axel Rudi Pell Savage Circus Majesty Marshall Law	My Dying Bride Deathstars Onslaught Brainstorm Machine Men Omnium Gatherum Sworn Amongst † Spellblast Illuminatus
Darwin Suite	To-Mera Eden Steel Tormentor Captive Audio Bloody Embrace	Vanden Plas Deadfall Enemy Unknown Died Smiling Tourettes Syndrome † Beyond Afterlife Agankast Mael Mórdha Isaiah H.O.S.T.I.L.E. The Boy Will Drown

† Tourrette's Syndrome were originally due to play on the main stage. However, they were late arriving to the venue, and so Sworn Amongst took their place, with Tourrette's Syndrome being bumped to a later slot in the Darwin Suite.

See also

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

External links

• Official website