Bloodstock 2021 Countdown - 30 Bands Not To Miss : 30. Onslaught
The first ever Wednesday night headliner for this super-sized Bloodstock is none other than British Thrash royalty Onslaught. In the late eighties, they headed up the British thrash revolution and they almost gate-crashed the elusive mainstream. Their cover of “Let There Be Rock” made it to number 46 and they headlined Hammersmith Odeon. However, like so many of their contemporaries they were smoothed by the tsunami that was Grunge and petered out in 1991. But they proved to be as influential in death as they were in life and all the way through the nineties and early noughties, Thrash connoisseurs spoke in fevered tones about their sophomore effort “The Force” and how it was one of the lost classics of British Thrash. Inevitably Onslaught reformed in 2005 and have now been going three times longer than they did the first time around. We have had a level of line-up changes over the last sixteen years and only mainstay Nige Rockett remains from the classic line up. But they are still a formidable live act with a wicked back catalogue. So if you like your Thrash fast and frantic with a tinge of punk then Sophie tent on Wednesday evening is the place to be.
Playing: Wednesday, 11th August 2021
Stage: Sophie Lancaster Stage