Live Review : Bloodstock Festival on August 11th 2023

And before we know it, we are straight into the first full day of festivities. The sun is up and blazing away though the plentiful cloud cover, this means it never becomes as inhospitable as last year. Bloodstock has always been about early starts and Lancastrian death metallers’ Bloodyard have pulled the short straw and are first out of the traps at the ungodly hour of 10:30 am.

Bloodstock : 30 Bands Not To Miss - Candlemass

Candlemass are the godfathers of Doom Metal. Yes you can trace its linage all the way back to that riff at the start of Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath but it was Candlemass (alongside Pentagram, St Vitus and Trouble) that actually forged it into a ground shaking movement.

Author : Stewart Lucas23 July 2023Bloodstock 2023Candlemass, Bloodstock, 2023Comment