Bloodstock Reveal Huge Headliners For 2025

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While the dust has barely been kicked off the floor here at Catton Park, Bloodstock have today revealed the first wave of bands for 2025. Including next years huge headliners!

In the announcement which took place in front of the masses at the Ronnie James Dio stage, the festival revealed that next years festival will be headlined by gargantuan riff goliaths Trivium, masters of metal and mayhem Machine Head, and the almighty Gojira – who recently opened the 2025 Olympic games in Paris.

Trivium frontman, Matthew K Heafy declared “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!”

Machine Head lead, Robb Flynn added “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”

But the festival didn’t stop the announcement there, excitedly divulging the headliners for the Sophie Lancaster stage as well. Thursday night will see Nergal’s bewitching side project, Me And That Man, closing out proceedings on the first day of music. Canadian death metal beasts Kataklysm, and American Industrial metallers STATIC-X, are set to headline the Sophie stage on the Friday and Saturday respectively. Having the honour of dishing out the last riffs at Catton Park 2025 will be the legendary Obituary.

The festival didn’t stop at that, revealing that the line-up will also see Emperor swooping in as special guests under Trivium on Friday (Fingers crossed for a bonus Heafy x Ihsahn IBARAKI live track/set). Elsewhere the Ronnie James Dio stage will play host to Lacuna Coil Orange Goblin, Creeper, Kublai Khan TX, The Black Dahlia Murder, FEUERSCHWANZ, Lord Of The Lost, and August Burns Red.

2025 will also play host to Sophie Lancaster stage special guests, All For Metal (on Thursday), Breed 77 (Saturday), 3 Inches Of Blood (Sunday).

Despite the amount packed into this announcement, the festival are still set to announce Friday’s guest along with around another 100 bands across 2025’s 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 across the duration of the 2024 event for £175. 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. This is the cheapest way to buy a 2025 ticket, with no booking fee.

Early bird tickets will be available online at 09:00 on 12th August from the 2025 Ticket Store with a booking fee. Once early birds sell out, adult standard weekend tickets will increase to £199 + fees (£224 + fees inc early access). Child weekend tix will rise to £59 + fees once early bird’s sell out.

See the full announcement below: