I imagine we'll start getting announcements of cancellations soon enough.

Samael is the only one for me in that. Reinforcing a Saturday only ticket really. Odd that they are so low down on the Sophie, but it will be fine along as they don't clash with dimmu. A lot of the placements seem really weird to me. Sleep Token above Eyehategod - Sleep Token are a far better band,...

The first announcement that's actually made me think about attending. I've wanted to see Samael for a while, and Cyrha were enjoyable enough supporting Delain a few years back. The big one for me is Nanowar of Steel though, I really want to see them. Unfortunately they are wasted on the Thursday. Wi...

When's the next announcement die? I need more bands! Could be a while without Vicky, whoever's doing their job will need to try to pick up wherever things were left off, won't have the same connections that she had, might still be dealing with fallout from what happened and also may want to put the...

i0th2 wrote:I do wish these announcements would include something about the band's actual sound rather than random terms like "metal crew" and "noiseniks"

Usually its a way of covering up the fact that all the bands sound exactly the same.

Very boring. There's so little on next years lineup that's any good and it's already mostly done. If not for Mercyful Fate I wouldn't even consider it.

I don't have feel confortable expressing my opinion on what she said (and, not being trans, don't really feel like I have a stake in it anyway, unlike seemingly everyone else). I will say that it seems like people are putting more thought into thinking about what she may or may not have meant than s...

My guess is Simon Hall will take over, and everyone will sound like a Pantera clone.

An injection of new blood could really spice up the festival though. Maybe Hatebreed won't be book for the sixteenth time in a few years.

For some reason I have a feeling its going to be Alice Cooper. Not sure why, I just have that feeling.

I've never minded Trivium musically - I was about the right age to be a fan when they first broke through, and they are pretty inoffensive. That said, every time I've seen them they've just been bad live, no charisma whatsoever. So I'm glad its not them.

No way are they that big. Shocked the third headliner wasn't locked in months ago to be honest.

Not much here to encourage me to buy a ticket yet though there are still lots of bands to announce. Based on the Arctangent announcement this morning, I may be going to that instead It baffles me that Arctangent consistently get Zeal and Ardor over Bloodstock. Up and coming band, would go down a st...

Sleep Token are great, but I can understand why they aren't particularly popular here. Good to see Bloodstock book someone a little left-field though because the rest of the announcement is basic bitch as fuck. I really wish they'd stop giving Hatebreed the time of day.

For the poor season leading up to it, the finale was actually pleasantly respectable, at least as much as it could be. It was nice to see all the characters get a decent send off as well, even if some of them were fairly unrealistic.

I'll be honest I didn't like Season 7 and didn't think they could do much worse. I was wrong. I liked the first half of season 7 (until it became all White Walker boredom), but this season misses on every note. Spoilers: I feel like they should have made last season all about finishing the white wa...