Bloodstock Open Air

Bloodstock Open Air
Genre	Heavy metal, all genres of metal are featured with power metal and folk metal being the most predominant
Dates	August
Location(s)	Walton-upon-Trent, England
Years active	2005 - present
Founders	Paul Raymond Gregory and Vince Brotheridge
Website	www.bloodstock.uk.com

Bloodstock Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Catton Hall in Walton-upon-Trent, England, since 2005. Previous line-ups have included bands such as Opeth (2008/2010), Children of Bodom (2005/2010), Nightwish (2008), Cradle of Filth (2009), Testament (2007), Arch Enemy (2007/2009), Europe (2009) and Twisted Sister (2010).

Originally on one stage only, the festival expanded to incorporate a second stage in 2006. Known simply as The Unsigned Stage, it was designed to provide a platform for the next generation of metal talent to reach a wider audience. In 2010 it was renamed The New Blood Stage.

2007 saw further expansion with the addition of a third stage, originally called The Lava Stage which in 2009 became the Sophie Lancaster Stage. In 2010 the capacity of this stage was increased and it became the festival's second stage.

This second stage is hosted by Bloodstock's resident DJs, The 4 DJs Of The Apocalypse, who provide entertainment throughout the day, Rock & Metal karaoke each night once the live music is over and DJ sets until the early hours of the morning.

Bloodstock Open Air was conceived as an extension of the original Bloodstock indoor festival which ran from 2001 until 2006 at Derby Assembly Rooms.

After an amicable parting in 2006 with his business partner Vince Brotheridge, in 2007 Paul Gregory bought his daughters Vicky and Rachael on board as directors. “It was an obvious move for me,” he explained, “as both had been working on the festival from its inception. They have brought their talents to the fore as the festival’s continued growth is very much due to their commitment.”

BOA 2005

Bloodstock Open Air 2005 took place from Friday 24 June to Saturday 25 June. The line up was as follows:-

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

BOA 2006

Bloodstock Open Air 2006 took place from Friday 14 July to Saturday 15 July. The line up was as follows:-

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

Unsigned Stage
Friday	Saturday
Evile Kingsize Blues Headless Cross Pitiful Reign Nephwrack	Deadweight Sicfelt State Of Serenity Nekkrosis Kyrb Grinder Spitting Blood Beyond All Reason Isaiah Deadeye Solace Luna Pin Phat Jerusalem Cycle VI Black River Project

BOA 2007

Bloodstock Open Air 2007 took place from Thursday 16 August to Saturday 18 August. The line up was as follows:-

Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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

Unsigned Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
stage closed	Hexagram Idiom King Lizard Sinocence Forever Never Cerebral Fix Timefall Enemo J The Aftermath Life Denied Omen Mindflow	Terrathorn Axis of Evil Exit Ten Trigger 9 Honey for Christ Nemhain Speed Theory Nephwrack Sinnergod The Hollow Earth Theory The Apostacy Kobrakai Hanging Doll

Lava Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Beholder	Zenith Blindsight	Rollin' Thunder Headrush

BOA 2008

Bloodstock Open Air 2008 took place from Friday 15 August to Sunday 17 August. The line up was as follows:-

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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

Scuzz Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
From The Ashes Sorcerer's Spell The Dead Lay Waiting Anger Management Firebrand Super Rock Son Of Science Obsessive Compulsive Hospital Of Death Broken Faith A470 Deadfilmstar	The Berzerker RSJ Metalloid Concept Of Time Hellfighter Keltic Jihad The Defiled Blood Island Raiders The Dirty Youth Mantra Empyreal Destroyer Witchsorrow Denounce 9 Days Down	Tesseract Silent Descent Musta Talvi Ted Maul Raven's Creed Necrosadistic Goat Torture Celtic Legacy Ravenage Serotonal De Profundis Blasphemous Creation Cursed As Angels

Lava Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Conquest Of Steel Bungle Jr	The Inbreds Invasion Outcryfire Pro-jekt	Sondura Fury UK Seven Years Dead	Liquid Sky Adam Bomb Breedapart Heaven's Gate Esoterica

BOA 2009

Bloodstock Open Air 2009 took place at Catton Hall from Friday 14 August to Sunday 16 August. The line up was as follows:-

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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

Unsigned Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Vallenbrosa The Green River Project Gods of Hellfire Blindfolds Aside Alternative Carpark Snakebite Divine Chaos Left To Bleed Bloodshot Dawn Bisonhammer Ventflow	The Saw Doctors Severed Heaven Hunted Solsikk O.M.T Inner Eden Sanctorum Internal Conflict Switchblade Scream Niyah Sky Nefarious They Will Rise	Nya Into The Woods Nightmare World Biomortal Sower Primitive Graven Image Long Time Dead Triaxis Annwn Agonyst Eibon la Furies

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Pythia Malefice Godsized Xerath	The Rotted Abgott Arthemis Celesty	Eden's Curse Tribe Darkness Dynamite Anterior

BOA 2010

Bloodstock Open Air 2010 celebrated the festival's 10th anniversary, and took place between Friday 13 August and Sunday 15 August. The line up was as follows:-

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Opeth Meshuggah Sonata Arctica Gorgoroth Cathedral Ensiferum Rage Ross the Boss Black Spiders Snakebite	Children of Bodom Fear Factory Devin Townsend 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
Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Desecration Hospital of Death	Powerwolf Enforcer Steelwing Collapse	Sylosis Benediction Regardless Of Me Mordecai	Killing Machine Winterfylleth Witchsorrow The Prophecy Purified In Blood

New Blood Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Arceye Credit To Dementia Shrapnel Splintered Soul Senturia Tempestora Morgue Orgy Grieve Betraeus Lordaeron Under Blackened Skies	The Whores Reism Chaos Asylum Silas Flayed Disciple AGHAST! Lithurgy Zocalo Achren Echoes Fall Burn The Hive	Furyon Core Project Orestea Stone Circle Mutant Extreme Od Ishmael Traces Hekz Neonfly Old Corpse Road

• Heaven & Hell were booked to headline on Sunday, but pulled out due to Ronnie James Dio's continuing health issues.
  • Shortly after Heaven & Hell pulled out, Dio died. The main stage was later renamed the Ronnie James Dio stage in tribute to him.
  • Twisted Sister's headline slot was moved from Friday to Sunday to replace Heaven & Hell. Opeth were then booked to fill the Friday headline slot.
• Dream Evil were confirmed for the mainstage on Friday, but were forced to pull out due to "personal commitments".
• Behemoth were confirmed for the mainstage on Friday, but pulled out due to the hospitalisation of frontman, Adam "Nergal" Darski. Cathedral were announced as their replacements.
• The Sophie Lancaster stage was increased in size and became Bloodstock's second stage. It now plays host to larger, more well known bands, as well as DJs, karaoke, film showings, competitions and more.

BOA 2011

Bloodstock Open Air 2011 took place at Catton Hall between Friday 12 August and Sunday 14 August 2011. The line up was as follows:-

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
W.A.S.P. 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
Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Steve Hughes Jason Rouse Beholder Revoker Xerath Achren	Lawnmower Deth October File Byfrost Arthemis Romeo Must Die Cerebral Bore Imicus Mortad	Keith Platt Steve 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

New Blood Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Brezno Training Icarus Cryostorm Decimation The Furious Horde Saturnian Rannoch Primitai Entro-P Inner Fire Shreddertron Unknown Fear	Intensive Square Haerken Pure Negative Hostile Rising Furyborn Foul Body Autopsy Impaled Existence Uburen Bury The Conscious Soulsphere Zombie Militia Bludvera	Lifer Achilla Talanas Northern Oak Sanguine Twilight's Embrace Sacred Illusion Akarusa Yami Spires Visitor Wolfcrusher Candid Iniquity

Jägermeister Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Primitai Alternative Carpark Rannoch Spires Foul Body Autopsy	Northern Oak Obsessive Compulsive Guardians of Andromeda Fantasist Avenge Thee & Name	The Last In Line Pig Iron Inferno Operation Error Amaranthe

• Nevermore were booked for the Ronnie James Dio stage, but were removed from the official line up in July. No official explanation has yet been released.
• Primevil were booked for the Sophie stage, but were later removed from the official line up. No explanation has yet been released.

BOA 2012

Bloodstock Open Air 2012 was scheduled to take place at Catton Hall between Thursday 16 August and Sunday 19 August 2012 (a week later than usual, owing to the festival organisers not wanting the festival to clash with the closing of the 2012 London Olympics); however, the dates were changed to between Thursday 9 August and Sunday 12 August. This change has not been officially explained. The current line-up is as follows:-

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Watain Corrosion of Conformity	Dimmu Borgir Hatebreed	Paradise Lost Anvil

Sophie Lancaster Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	Orange Goblin	Anaal Nathrakh

New Blood Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	Doomed

See also

• Bloodstock
• List of music festivals in the United Kingdom

External links

• Official website
• The 4 DJs Of The Apocalypse website