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Gojira, Trivium and Machine Head to headline Bloodstock 2025
Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira top the Bloodstock 2025 line-up with Emperor, Creeper, The Black Dahlia Murder and more!
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This year's Bloodstock is well underway and they're already looking ahead to 2025, having just announced 19 bands including all three headliners.
Topping the bill at Catton Park next August will be metal heavyweights Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira.
"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," says Trivium frontman Matt Heafy of the band's Friday night headline set. "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!"
"We honestly couldn’t be more stoked about hitting the stage at one of our favourite festivals to play," says Machine Head mainman Robb Flynn. "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 Fuckin’ Head is coming to town and we want to see all you Head Cases lose it! Beers up!"
And rounding out the weekend on Sunday night will be new Olympic heroes Gojira! "We are psyched to play Bloodstock again next year," says frontman Joe Duplantier. "Hold on to your socks, it’s gonna be brutal!”
Headlining the Sophie Lancaster Stage next year will be Me And That Man, Kataklysm, Static-X and Obituary.
And there's even more, with Emperor, Lacuna Coil, Orange Goblin, Creeper, Kublai Khan TX, The Black Dahlia Murder, Lord Of The Lost, August Burns Red, All For Metal, Breed 77, 3 Inches Of Blood and Feuerschwanz.
Bloodstock 2025 takes place at Catton Park in Derbyshire on August 7 – 10. If you're at the festival right now, tickets are available from the onsite box office. Otherwise, they go onsale at 9am from August 12.
