Bloodstock Open Air adds another five artists to 2019 bill

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Bloodstock organisers reveal the names of five more bands who’ll make the trip to Catton Park this summer

Organisers of Bloodstock 2019 have revealed the names of five more bands who’ll play at the festival this summer.

The UK event will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire, on August 8-11, with Sabaton, Scorpions and Parkway Drive (opens in new tab) previously confirmed as headliners.

Now it’s been confirmed that they’ll be joined over the weekend by Cancer Bats, Raging Speedhorn, Shvpes, Taake and Resin.

Cancer Bats have landed a slot on the Ronnie James Dio main stage on the Saturday, while Taake will headline the Sophie Lancaster Stage on Saturday night.

Raging Speedhorn will play on the Sophie Stage on the Friday, while Shvpes have claimed a Saturday spot, and Resin will perform on the Sunday.

Cancer Bats say: “Many hails to our dark lord Lucifer for allowing us to grace the stage on this truly metal day! We're stoked to rip this fucker with all our UK brothers and sisters! Let's do this!”

Other artists previously announced for the weekend include Anthrax, Soulfly, Dimmu Borgir, Children Of Bodom, Tesseract, Dee Snider, Queensryche, Cradle Of Filth and Code Orange.

Tickets are available from the official Bloodstock website.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.