Das Bloodstock Open Air ist ein jährlich im August stattfindendes Heavy-Metal-Festival in der englischen Ortschaft Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Das Festival fand erstmals im Jahre 2005 statt. Nach eigenen Angaben ist es das größte unabhängige Metal-Festival im Vereinigten Königreich. Bei den Kerrang! Awards 2016 wurde das Bloodstock Open Air als bestes Festival ausgezeichnet.
Zwischen 2001 und 2006 gab es auch ein Hallenfestival, bei dessen erster Ausgabe gerade 700 Zuschauer kamen. Das Festival begann als zweitägige Veranstaltung auf einer Bühne. Seit 2009 gibt es vier Bühnen, wobei die dritte und vierte Bühne in der Regel lokalen Bands und Newcomern vorbehalten sind. Wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie fand das Festival 2020 erstmals nicht statt.
Bands 2005 Main StageFreitagSamstagSebastian Bach Mostly Autumn Breed 77 Gotthard Panic CellChildren of Bodom Paradise Lost Edguy Masterplan Evergrey Humanity Fourwaykill
2006 Main StageFreitagSamstagEdguy Metal Church Atheist Nocturnal Rites Rage PyramazeStratovarius Turisas Bal-Sagoth Ensiferum Callenish Circle Gorilla Monsoon Season's End Ashtar 19th Century
2007 Main StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagTestament Firewind Head On Kiuas Sight of Emptiness Chris SladeLacuna Coil Dark Tranquillity Nevermore Epica Korpiklaani Memfis Wolf Scar Symmetry Voodoo Six ExploderIn Flames Arch Enemy Sabbat Dream Evil Finntroll Legion of the Damned Benediction Freedom Call Rise to Addiction Beyond All Reason
2008 Main StageFreitagSamstagSonntagOpeth Helloween Soulfly Primal Fear Destruction Akercocke Týr Praying Mantis Evile Saint DeamonDimmu Borgir Iced Earth Soilwork Napalm Death Moonsorrow Communic Swallow the Sun Eluveitie Rise to Remain Cloudscape Evil ScarecrowNightwish At the Gates Overkill As I Lay Dying Kataklysm Mob Rules Grand Magus Alestorm Crowning Glory Heaven’s Basement
2009 Main StageFreitagSamstagSonntagCarcass Arch Enemy Saxon Sodom Katatonia Municipal Waste Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Insomnium Million Dollar Reload BlitzkriegCradle of Filth Blind Guardian Apocalyptica Kreator Enslaved Candlemass Entombed The Haunted Wolf Battlelore Uncle RotterEurope Satyricon Amon Amarth Moonspell Turisas Anathema Equilibrium Girlschool Sabaton Beholder
2010 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagOpeth Meshuggah Sonata Arctica Gorgoroth Cathedral Ensiferum Rage Ross the Boss Black Spiders SnakebiteChildren of Bodom Fear Factory The Devin Townsend Project Amorphis Obituary Edguy Onslaught Evile Leaves' Eyes AndromedaTwisted Sister Cannibal Corpse Bloodbath Gojira Gwar Korpiklaani Doro Holy Moses Suffocation Bonded by Blood
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagDesecration Hospital of DeathPowerwolf Enforcer Steelwing CollapseSylosis Benediction Regardless of Me MordecaiKilling Machine Winterfylleth Witchsorrow The Prophecy Purified in Blood
2011 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagW.A.S.P. The Devin Townsend Project Kreator Coroner Triptykon Poisonblack Forbidden Wolf The DefiledImmortal Rhapsody of Fire Therion Wintersun Ihsahn Finntroll Tarot Grave Digger SkeletonwitchMotörhead Morbid Angel At the Gates Exodus HammerFall Napalm Death Primordial 1349 Hell
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagSteve Hughes Jason Rouse Beholder Revoker Xerath AchrenLawnmower Deth October File Byfrost Arthemis Romeo Must Die Cerebral Bore Imicus MortadKeith Platt Stephen Hill Angel Witch The Rotted Deadly Circus Fire Hammer of the Gods Def-Con-One Blake DripbackSteve Hughes Jason Rouse Criminal Amaranthe Power Quest Survivors Zero Hellish Outcast Nemhain Evil Scarecrow Grand Ultra
2012 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagBehemoth Dio Disciples Watain Sepultura Iced Earth Moonsorrow Grand Magus Freedom Call MaleficeMachine Head Testament Hatebreed Sanctuary Mayhem Crowbar Chthonic I Am I BenedictionAlice Cooper Dimmu Borgir Paradise Lost Anvil Evile The Black Dahlia Murder Nile Corrosion of Conformity Kobra and the Lotus
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagViking Skull Marionette Bloodshot Dawn SaturnianDirty Sanchez Alcest Eastern Front Pythia Death Valley Knights Derision Sweet Savage Primitai Gonoreas Commander in ChiefOrange Goblin Sight of Emptiness Witchsorrow Winterfylleth Furyon Rising Dream Infernal Tenebra Dripback Savage Messiah Splintered SoulAnaal Nathrakh Headcharger Demonic Resurrection Nociferia Ancient Ascendant Crimes of Passion Battalion Flayed Disciple Re-Armed
2013 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagKing Diamond Accept Voivod Municipal Waste Dark Funeral Firewind Ex Deo Death Angel Earthtone9Lamb of God Avantasia Sabaton Gojira Kataklysm Hell 3 Inches of Blood Beholder StormbringerSlayer Anthrax DevilDriver Exodus Amorphis Fozzy Sacred Mother Tongue Whitechapel Gama Bomb
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagTragedy Ravenage OAF Bull-Riff Stampede MotherloadScar Symmetry Xentrix Xerath Cypher 16 Skiltron The Prophecy Shrapnel Bloodbound Absolva The Way of PurityLast in Line Power Quest NeonFly Mael Mordha Scarab Betraeus Vanderbuyst Sworn Amongst Unfathomable RuinationDying Fetus Wolfsbane Belphegor Breed77 Gormathon Evil Scarecrow Bossk RSJ Grifter States of Panic Lifer
2014 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagDown Dimmu Borgir Hatebreed Triptykon Prong Flotsam and Jetsam Primordial Entombed A.D. Bloodshot DawnEmperor Carcass Children of Bodom Lacuna Coil Crowbar Orphaned Land Decapitated Shining Evil ScarecrowMegadeth Amon Amarth Saxon Obituary Avatar Biohazard ReVamp Aborted Arthemis
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagJaldaboath Monument Incinery Gehtika BallsdeepRotting Christ Skyclad Diabolical Winterfylleth Deals Death Zerozonic De Profundis Krokodil Aghast! Cambion GurtHellyeah Sister Sin Battleaxe Blood Red Throne Obsidian Kingdom Conquest of Steel The Mercy House Old Corpse Road Profane Omen The King Is Blind Babylon FireSatan Graveyard Collibus Krow Stormzone Stahlsarg Voices Morgue Orgy Haerken October File Aaron Keylock
2015 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagTrivium Sabaton Overkill Ihsahn Enslaved Belphegor Armored Saint Raging Speedhorn Nuclear AssaultWithin Temptation Opeth Death DTA Dark Angel Napalm Death Korpiklaani 1349 Xerath Savage MessiahRob Zombie Black Label Society Cannibal Corpse Ensiferum Sepultura Pro Pain Orange Goblin Wolf Agalloch
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagArnoCorps Red Rum Desecration Metaprism Reign of FuryDelain Conan I Am I Hang the Bastard Fire Red Empress Ne Obliviscaris Re-Animator Messiah's Kiss Bast Oaf SilasFleshgod Apocalypse Jettblack Planet of Zeus Burgerkill Mordred Battalion Godsized Jasad Ethereal Ageless Oblivion Anihilated PistGodflesh Onslaught Trepalium Lawnmower Deth Destrage Saille Ol Drake Alunah Villainy Dead Label The Izuna Drop Triaxis
2016 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagTwisted Sister Behemoth Venom Corrosion of Conformity Misery Loves Co. Stuck Mojo Evil Scarecrow Gloryhammer HarkMastodon Gojira Paradise Lost Fear Factory Rotting Christ Akercocke Vallenfyre Kill II This CambionSlayer Anthrax Symphony X DragonForce Satyricon Metal Allegiance Unearth Heart of a Coward Ghost Bath
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagPhil Campbell’s All Starr Band Psykosis Sumer Karybdis Sublime EyesDiamond Head Beyond the Black Beholder XII Boar Foetal Juice The Charm the Fury Meta-Stasis Anti-Clone Brutai Boss Keloid FuryAcid Reign Shining Bull-Riff Stampede One Machine Misanthrope Vodun The King Is Blind This Is Turin The Raven Age Mage The Heretic Order Goatwhore Pythia Memoriam Vektor Whispered Derange Witchsorrow Divine Chaos Krysthla Sanguine Desert Storm
2017 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagAmon Amarth Blind Guardian Testament Decapitated Soilwork Devilment Whitechapel Chelsea Grin Forever StillGhost Kreator Hatebreed Municipal Waste Annihilator King 810 Havok Winterfylleth FallujahMegadeth Arch Enemy Skindred Hell Brujeria Obituary Possessed Venom Prison Broken Teeth
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagBattle Beast Wind Rose The Infernal Sea Gurt Ramage IncInquisition Lionize Shrapnel Black Moth Season's End Dendera Morass of Molasses Corpsing Endeavour Internal Conflict Iron RatMacabre Xentrix OHHMS Red Rum Florence Black GODS Abhorrent Decimation The One Hundred Kroh Eradikator Blind RiverWintersun Bossk Arthemis Criminal ONI Wolfheart Puppy Courtesans Wretched Soul Blind Haze GraVil
2018 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagJudas Priest Emperor Kamelot Lovebites Bloodbath Wednesday 13 Memoriam Onslaught Feed the RhinoGojira Cannibal Corpse Alestorm Combichrist Venom Inc. Septicflesh Orden Ogan Power Trip Nailed to ObscurityNightwish At the Gates DevilDriver Mr. Big Jasta Fozzy Amaranthe Evergrey Monument
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagArkona Bloodshot Dawn Skiltron Fire Red Empress Hundred Year Old ManDoro Bleed from Within Suicidal Tendencies Ingested De Profundis Reprisal Sodomized Cadaver Godthrymm Fahran Mortishead Deity's MuseOrphaned Land Exhorder With the Dead Voyager A Forest of Stars Vola Conjurer Dead Label Weight of the Tide Limb Forgotten RemainsWatain Pallbearer Act of Defiance Mantar Demonic Resurrection Underside Sangre Alien Weaponry King Leviathan Uncured Doomsday Outlaw
2019 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagSabaton Powerwolf TesseracT Children of Bodom Soulfly Metal Church Death Angel InciteParkway Drive Anthrax Cradle of Filth Code Orange Thy Art Is Murder Evil Scarecrow Swallow the Sun Cancer Bats KrysthlaScorpions Dimmu Borgir Queensrÿche Dee Snider Hypocrisy Soilwork Ross the Boss Aborted All Hail the Yeti
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagRotting Christ Ten Ton Slug Footprints in the Custard Blind River Barbarian HermitGrand Magus Raging Speedhorn Countless Skies Sulpher Damnation's Hammer BongCauldron Def Con One Blasphemer Zealot CultTaake Skeletal Remains Generation Kill 3 Headed Snake Dust Bolt Red Method ShvpesEluveitie The Lazys Resin Boss Keloid Witch Tripper Harbinger
2020 Das Festival fand 2020 wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie nicht statt und wurde im Mai auf 2021 verschoben.
2021 Ronnie James Dio StageFreitagSamstagSonntagDevin Townsend Skindred Phillip H. Anselmo & The Illegals Dark Tranquillity Sacred ReichBehemoth Paradise Lost Bury Tomorrow Vio-lence Jinjer Sylosis Toxic Holocaust ConjurerJudas Priest Saxon Gloryhammer The Black Dahlia Murder Orange Goblin Life of Agony Diamond Head Butcher Babies
Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagThe Night Flight Orchestra Nekrogoblikon The Crawling Raised by Owls AnakimBloodywood Bossk Exhumed NecrotCattle Decapitation Memoriam Ramage Inc WinterfyllethHatebreed Green Lung Unleash the Archers
2022 Ronnie James Dio StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagBehemoth Testament Exodus Gwar Doyle Bloodywood Sorcerer Heart of a Coward Red MethodMercyful Fate Dimmu Borgir Bury Tomorrow Jinjer Sylosis Lorna Shore Spirit World Lost Society BaestLamb of God Killing Joke Dark Funeral Cattle Decapitation Venom Inc. Vio-lence Butcher Babies Life of Agony Vended Sophie Lancaster StageDonnerstagFreitagSamstagSonntagDark Tranquillity Nekrogoblikon Nanowar of Steel Mother Vulture Thuum Basement Torture KillingsSleep Token Avatar Eyehategod Heathen Discharge Party Cannon Thrown into Exile Inhuman Nature CrepitationMalevolence Ferocious Dog Samael Ingested Blood Youth Defects Cyhra Cage Fight Pupil Slicer Mastiff Sister ShotgunThe Night Flight Orchestra Belphegor Strigoi Ill Niño Orbit Culture Heriot Noctem Skarlett Riot Guilt Trip Desert Storm Pelugion
2023