Bloodstock Open Air Drop All Headliners and more 2025 Details

With 2024’s event well underway, Bloodstock organisers have wasted no time in hyping up the 2025’s heavy metal juggernaut by announcing nineteen bands for what promises to be its hottest summer yet… including all headliners. Bloodstock 2025 will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 7th-10th August.

First up, the Friday’s headliner is US metal titans, Trivium. Matthew K Heafy declares, “We’ve always said that the UK is a second home to Trivium. It’s where our band really took root way back in 2005 and our relationship with it has only grown deeper over time. Our headline set will span our entire 20 year history and we’ll also celebrate Ascendancy by bringing both the music and art to life. Bloodstock is the home of heavy metal in the UK and we’re thrilled to once again be called upon to headline it along with two long time friends. We promise you this will be the biggest and best Trivium set you have ever seen!”

Saturday’s headliners are masters of metal and mayhem, Machine Head. Robb Flynn enthuses, “We honestly couldn’t be more stoked about hitting the stage at one of our favourite festivals to play. Bloodstock will forever hold a special place in our blackened hearts after our, now legendary, not-so-secret-secret-show on the Sophie Lancaster Stage back in 2022. That show, which marked our return to the live arena post-pandemic, was one of the hottest, wildest and most intense shows we’ve ever played on UK shores and we now want to recreate that magic again, and take it even higher in August 2025. Bloodstock, get ready because Machine F**ckin’ Head is coming to town and we want to see all you Head Cases lose it! BEERS UP!”

Finally, Sunday’s headliners recently dazzled the world with a gold-medal performance at the Olympics opening ceremony just two weeks ago…the almighty Gojira! Last headlining Bloodstock back in 2018, Joe Duplantier states, “We are psyched to play Bloodstock again next year! Hold on to your socks, it’s gonna be brutal!!!”

Not content with unveiling the Ronnie James Dio stage headliners, Bloodstock confirmed all headliners for the Sophie Lancaster Stage which will see Nergal’s side project Me and That Man closing the Thursday night, Canadian death metal beasts Kataklysm closing the Friday, Saturday, the tent will shake to the sounds of industrial/nu-metal stars Static-X while Sunday will see the festival rumble to a close under the weight of the mighty Obituary.

If that isn’t enough to have you scrambling to book your tickets, specials guests under Trivium on Friday are influential black metal icons Emperor. Will we get a Heafy x Ihsahn Ibaraki live track? Elsewhere on the Friday bill, Lacuna Coil will play their only festival slot of 2025, with Orange Goblin bringing along a stack of dirty riffs. Saturday’s main stage will also see horror punks Creeper appear alongside US metallic hardcore bruisers Kublai Khan TX. Sunday will see melo-death squad The Black Dahlia Murder, medieval metalheads Feuerschwanz, theatrical dark rockers Lord of the Lost and August Burns Red joining the main stage line-up.

Finally, to wrap up this mammoth announcement, All For Metal, Breed 77 and 3 Inches of Blood have been confirmed to be joining the biggest heavy metal party of the year.

Weekend early bird tickets (Thu-Sun) for Bloodstock 2025 are available to purchase at the box office on site for £175. Child weekend early bird’s are £45 (ages 4 -11). Mini moshers under age 4 can come for free. Wednesday early access is also available for those who want to max out their Bloodstock experience – an early bird adult Wed-Sun ticket costs £200. There is no additional cost for children under 4, or aged 4-11, to arrive with a parent on Wednesday.

For full details of the announcement, ticket payment plans and other packages available, head over to the Official Bloodstock Website.