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Bloodstock Open Air have announced the first bands for their 2027 edition, running August 5–8, 2027 at Catton Park in Derbyshire. The Ronnie James Dio main stage headliners are Mercyful Fate on Friday, Electric Callboy on Saturday and Motionless In White on Sunday — the latter two headlining Bloodstock for the first time.

On the Sophie Lancaster stage, Madball open the festival on Thursday, with Gaerea, Kanonenfieber and Dethklok taking the remaining top slots. Special guests include Acid Bath, Green Lung and Children Of Bodom. Early bird weekend tickets are £210 with no booking fee on site during Bloodstock 2026, rising to £235 plus fee when general on-sale opens Monday, August 10. Around 100 more bands are still to be announced.

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On Monday’s Metal Breakdown Daily, Scott Penfold gets into the Bloodstock 2027 announcement — the three headliners, the cartoon band closing the whole festival, and the seven words in King Diamond’s statement that just answered a question we’d been asking all week. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and take the show with you.

They announced it from the stage. Bloodstock 2026 is still going on as you read this, and festival HQ revealed the first names for next year at the Ronnie James Dio stage, straight after Municipal Waste finished melting faces.

August 5–8, 2027. Catton Park. Here’s who’s confirmed.

The Headline Worth Reading Twice

Start with the bit that isn’t in anyone else’s coverage.

Mercyful Fate headline the Friday, and King Diamond issued a statement that on the surface is standard festival-announcement warmth — honoured, looking forward to it, last time was great.

Then he adds seven words that change a story we were writing about this morning: “and this time with a brand new album out, FINALLY!!!”

That’s the clearest commitment anyone in that band has made on the record in four years.

Some context on why it matters. Mercyful Fate’s last album was “9,” released in 1999. They debuted a song from the follow-up — “The Jackal Of Salzburg” — live in June 2022. And the updates since have gone in the wrong direction: King Diamond said the track was almost finished in February 2024, with vocals being recorded and one final bass pass to go, and then Becky Baldwin described the album as being in the demoing process in January 2025.

Almost finished, then demoing, eleven months later. That’s the pattern that’s had fans sceptical.

Now the frontman has publicly attached a release to a festival date thirteen months out, with three exclamation marks on the word finally. He knows exactly how long people have been waiting.

And Look At The Routing

Here’s the second thing nobody’s joining up.

Bloodstock runs August 5–8, 2027.

Earlier this week, Mercyful Fate announced they’d play Leyendas Del Rock in Villena, Spain — August 11–14, 2027.

Those are consecutive weekends. A band that hasn’t played a single show since April 2024 now has two European festival dates seven days apart.

That is not two coincidences. That’s the skeleton of a European run being built, and you don’t build a European run in support of nothing. Between the routing and King Diamond’s statement, the album case is stronger today than it’s been since 2022.

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Saturday: Electric Callboy’s First Bloodstock Headline

A complete tonal handbrake turn, and that’s rather the point of a good festival bill.

Electric Callboy headline Bloodstock for the first time on Saturday night. German metalcore welded to EDM and outright comedy, in what is genuinely one of the most enjoyable live shows in modern heavy music — and a band who, as their new album TANZNEID demonstrated this week, can still write something genuinely nasty when they feel like it.

Their statement was about as Electric Callboy as it gets: their first-ever Bloodstock, heavy music, questionable outfits and thousands of metalheads sounding like a perfect fit, and they’re in.

Expect Catton Park bouncing in unison like a rave that took a wrong turn into a mosh pit.

Sunday: Motionless In White’s Only UK Show Of 2027

This one deserves more attention than it’ll get.

Motionless In White close the main stage on Sunday, and Chris Motionless framed it precisely. He said the band were told they’re one of the most requested acts for the festival, that this will be their first ever European festival headlining show, and — the important part — their only UK show of 2027.

So for anyone in Britain who wants to see Motionless In White next year, this is it. One show, one weekend, no alternative dates.

Twenty years in, with the gothic-industrial theatricality they’ve spent that time building, and a headline slot to fill however they want. Given how the last tour looked, whatever they’re planning for this will be substantial.

Dethklok Are Closing The Entire Festival

Buried in the middle of the announcement, and genuinely brilliant.

The Sophie Lancaster stage headliners are Madball on Thursday — thirty-five years of New York hardcore, Freddy Cricien still hitting exactly as hard as 1989 — followed by Gaerea on Friday, whose black metal has become more cinematic with every record, and Kanonenfieber on Saturday, the German project turning First World War diaries into blackened death metal.

And then Dethklok close it. Not just the Sophie stage — the very final band of the whole festival.

A group that began life as a cartoon on Metalocalypse is the last thing anyone hears at Bloodstock 2027. And anyone treating that as a novelty booking hasn’t heard them; the melodic death metal is entirely serious and the musicianship is absurd.

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The Rest Of What’s Confirmed

Ronnie James Dio stage special guests:

• Friday — Acid Bath. Louisiana sludge pioneers, reunited, blending doom, blues and southern gothic dread. Also on System Of A Down’s 2026 European run, which tells you how in demand they currently are.
• Saturday — Green Lung. Folk-horror occult rock, all Hammer-film atmosphere and fuzz.
• Sunday — Children Of Bodom. Returning to honour the legacy of the late Alexi Laiho and the melodic death metal sound that made them Finnish icons.

Also on the main stage: Devildriver, Corrosion Of Conformity, Imminence, Wind Rose, Sylosis, Decapitated, Witch Club Satan, HammerFall, Hypocrisy, The Halo Effect, Tortured Demon, Gutalax, Humanity’s Last Breath and Conan.

Also on the Sophie stage: Dool, Pig Destroyer and Fulci.

A few of those deserve flagging. The Halo Effect are ex-In Flames members returning to classic Gothenburg melodeath. Witch Club Satan are an all-female Norwegian black metal coven who bring actual theatre training to genuinely confrontational ritual performance. And Conan describe what they do as “caveman battle doom,” which is the most accurate genre tag anyone has ever written.

Roughly 100 more bands are still to be announced.

Tickets — And A £34 Saving If You’re There Right Now

This is the practical bit, and it’s time-sensitive.

Early bird weekend tickets are £210 with no booking fee, available at the main entrance box office throughout Bloodstock 2026 — which is happening this weekend. The festival expects them to sell out on site.

Once they’re gone, the price becomes £235 plus booking fee, with general on-sale opening Monday, August 10 at 9am.

So if you’re at Catton Park right now, walking to the box office saves you £34 a ticket.

The rest of the schedule:

• Monday, August 10 — general on-sale, plus coach packages
• Wednesday, August 12 at 9am — VIP and campervan tickets, plus the instalment scheme returns

Wednesday early access is available for some campsites, child tickets are available, and under-fours get in free.

New for 2027: Bloodstock now has two luxury VIP areas. Alongside the existing Serpent’s Lair VIP campsite (pitch your own or book a pre-erected tent), there’s a brand new Serpent’s Lair VIP Sanctuary — deluxe pod pads set in a series of glades about five minutes’ walk from the campsite and the main arena.

Full details at bloodstock.uk.com.

If you’re planning a wider festival year, our 2026 metal festival guide covers what else is out there.

TL;DR

• When and where: Bloodstock Open Air 2027, August 5–8, Catton Park, Derbyshire, UK
• Main stage headliners: Mercyful Fate (Friday), Electric Callboy (Saturday), Motionless In White (Sunday)
• First-timers: both Electric Callboy and Motionless In White headline Bloodstock for the first time
• The big detail: King Diamond’s statement confirms Mercyful Fate will have “a brand new album out” by the festival — their first since 1999
• Sophie Lancaster stage headliners: Madball (Thursday), Gaerea (Friday), Kanonenfieber (Saturday), Dethklok (Sunday) — Dethklok close the entire festival
• Special guests: Acid Bath, Green Lung and Children Of Bodom
• Motionless In White note: their first European festival headline set and their only UK show of 2027
• Tickets: £210 early bird with no fee on site during Bloodstock 2026; £235 plus fee from general on-sale on Monday, August 10 at 9am
• VIP and campervan: on sale Wednesday, August 12 at 9am, with a new Serpent’s Lair VIP Sanctuary added
• Still to come: around 100 more bands

FAQ

Three headliners, a cartoon band closing the whole thing, and King Diamond finally saying the word “album” out loud. Who are you most looking forward to — and who do you want in those 100 remaining slots? Let us know in the comments.

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