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12/08/2025

🌑🔥 SIGLOS cast a dark spell over Bloodstock 2025 🔥🌑

Delivering an intense fusion of blackened atmosphere and crushing heaviness, SIGLOS commanded the Sophie Lancaster Stage with an unrelenting performance that left the crowd in awe. Shadows, riffs, and raw power combined for a set that felt ritualistic and dangerous in the best way possible.

📸 Photos by Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine

👇 Step into the darkness
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11/08/2025

All For Metal – Bloodstock 2025 | Sophie Lancaster Stage

With their larger-than-life stage presence, anthemic choruses, and boundless energy, All For Metal turned the Sophie Lancaster Stage into a heavy metal battleground at Bloodstock 2025. Clad in battle gear and armed with fist-pumping riffs, the band delivered a set overflowing with power metal glory and crowd-unifying spirit. From the first chant to the final note, it was pure, unfiltered festival magic.

📸 Photos by Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine

All For Metal – Bloodstock 2025 | Sophie Lancaster Stage With their larger-than-life stage presence, anthemic choruses, and boundless energy, All For

10/08/2025

💣 CAGE FIGHT unleashed pure hardcore fury at Bloodstock 2025! 💣

From the first riff to the final roar, CAGE FIGHT brought relentless aggression, razor-sharp riffs, and crowd-slaying energy to the main stage. The pit was chaos, the adrenaline was high, and the band proved why they’re one of the UK’s most uncompromising forces in modern crossover thrash.

📸 Photos by Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine

⚡ Check out the gallery and feel the intensity all over again!

10/08/2025

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🔥🎸 AUGUST BURNS RED set the Bloodstock 2025 main stage ablaze! 🎸🔥

With crushing riffs, unstoppable energy, and a performance that had the entire field moving, AUGUST BURNS RED proved once again why they’re one of metalcore’s most commanding live forces. From pit anthems to soaring melodies, their set was nothing short of explosive.

📸 Photos by Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine

👇 Check out the full gallery and relive the chaos!

10/08/2025

🌿🔥 EIHWAR summoned ancient spirits at Bloodstock 2025! 🔥🌿

Blending primal rhythms, pounding drums, and raw warrior energy, EIHWAR transformed the Sophie Lancaster Stage into a tribal battlefield. A performance that was as intense as it was immersive—pure pagan power.

📸 Photos by Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine

👉 Explore the full gallery and step into the ritual!

09/08/2025

🎉🔥 BLOODSTOCK celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2026 – and you’re invited to the biggest metal party of the year! 🤘

We’re kicking things off with a massive first wave of bands:
🎤 Headliners: LAMB OF GOD (Fri) | SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL (Sat) | JUDAS PRIEST (Sun)
Plus: SEPULTURA (Farewell Tour), MUNICIPAL WASTE, NORTHLANE, BLEED FROM WITHIN, ORBIT CULTURE, VENDED, LIFE OF AGONY, OF MICE & MEN, BIOHAZARD, IMPERIAL AGE, DEATH ANGEL, THE SCRATCH… and many more across the Ronnie James Dio & Sophie Lancaster stages!

📅 Dates: 6–9 August 2026 | Catton Park, Derbyshire
🎟 Early bird tickets on sale NOW at the on-site box office – cheapest price + no booking fee!

This year also marks the first Heavy Metal Truants ride to BLOODSTOCK – raising funds for Teenage Cancer Trust, Nordoff & Robbins, Childline, and Save the Children. 🚴 Join the ride and be part of something epic.

👉 Full details & line-up: buff.ly/TPo4qvP

BLOODSTOCK ANNOUNCES 25 BANDS FOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2026 ALL RONNIE JAMES DIO AND SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE HEADLINERS REVEALED TICKETS ON SALE ON SITE AND

07/08/2025

🩸 INTERVIEW: Paleface Swiss guitarist Yannick Lehmann talks to Antihero Magazine about the blistering Cursed (The Complete Edition), the story behind “River of Sorrows” (unplugged), why “Enough” calls out online bullies, and how the band wrote a full album in just two weeks.

“If you’re bullying people, just f*** off. We don’t want you in the room.”

🔗 Read the full interview at Antihero!

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“If you’re bullying people, just f**k off. We don’t want you in the room.” – Yannick Lehmann Paleface Swiss recently dropped Cursed (The Complete

30/07/2025

🎧 From Black Label Society and In This Moment to flying solo—Jeff Fabb is no stranger to reinvention.

In this exclusive Antihero Magazine interview, Jeff opens up about grief, grit, and going it alone on his solo journey. He talks songwriting, the power of silence, lessons from Ozzy, and why his younger self would be damn proud.

🥁 “Drumming is still my first love—but now I get to say something with it.”

👉 Read the full interview!

“We just need to get quiet and listen… the answers are already inside of us.” Highly respected drummer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Fabb has long carved

29/07/2025

🎪 With Bloodstock 2025 just around the corner, Antihero’s Sam Jones gives us a brutally honest preview of this year’s chaos. From Nailbomb’s long-awaited return to a Sophie Stage bloodbath with Obituary and 3 Inches of Blood, this year’s lineup is stacked with legends, goodbyes, and surprises.
📖 Read the full festival preview now and start planning your pit strategy:

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“Never thought I’d get to see a live Nailbomb performance… regardless what humane state I’m in, I guarantee you I’ll be there.” With Bloodstock 2025

18/07/2025

[REVIEW] Russia’s Slaughter to Prevail just dropped their heaviest, most ferocious album yet—Grizzly. Featuring BABYMETAL and Ronnie Radke, this release fuses unrelenting brutality with genre-blending surprises.

🔍 We dive deep into the chaos and craftsmanship behind the band’s boldest statement to date.

🧨 “Every track hits like a knockout punch to the gut... by the end, you’ll want to wrestle a bear.”

📖 Read the full review now on Antihero Magazine!

“Every track hits like a knockout punch to the gut—leaving listeners dazed but hungry for more.” Russia’s greatest metal export, Slaughter to Prevail, has

03/07/2025

🗓 June 25 | 📍 San Francisco
Under the golden ghosts of the Great American Music Hall, German pagan folk legends FAUN conjured an unforgettable night of myth, magic, and ecstatic release.

No openers. No distractions. Just two hours of spellbinding ritual, primal rhythms, and sacred storytelling that transformed the stage into a sonic altar.

✨ Read our full review of An Evening with FAUN — a night where time stopped, and something ancient stirred.

"For two spellbound hours, time ceased to matter." In a city known for its mystics, dreamers, and rebels, FAUN returned to San Francisco on June 25th to

17/06/2025

🔥 Live Review: June 14 at the Fox Theater was more than a concert—it was a seismic event.

Acid Bath rose from the dead and reclaimed their throne in front of a multigenerational crowd who felt the moment ripple through their bones. High on Fire came out like a war charge. 16 opened with pure sonic ruin.

🕯 “This wasn’t nostalgia. This was transcendence.”

Some concerts deliver nostalgia. Others, transcendence. And every so often, you get a night like June 14 at Oakland’s Fox Theater, where the past and