The UK’s fast-rising – and one of the cheapest metal festivals you can find, Bloodstock Open Air – is thrilled to announce three new additions to the 2013 bill. These exclusive UK festival appearances rack up alongside the previously announced thrash metal legends Anthrax.
German metallers Accept are excited to bring their classic sound to Bloodstock’s legendary turf. Accept’s founder/guitarist, Wolf Hoffmann, is looking forward to his band’s return to british shores, commenting online, “Hey Dudes & Dudettes! It was the UK and Judas Priest who made it possible for Accept, overnight, to be put on the map!! We believe that without our British fans, the career of Accept would have taken a different turn. We are honoured and very grateful to be invited to play Bloodstock 2013 – our only show in the UK! Let’s rock together…See ya there!” Accept’s Andy Sneap produced the ‘Stalingrad’ album that will hit stores in April. Prepare to have your mind blown, as you can listen to the track here: http://soundcloud.com/nuclearblastrecords/accept-stalingrad.
Fozzy’s frontman – WWE legend Chris Jericho – is similarly thrilled about performing at Bloodstock. When asked about Fozzy’s appearance at Bloodstock, Chris said; “Next summer, it’s going to be such an honour for Fozzy to be a part of the biggest growing festival in the entire UK! I’ve been following the evolution of Bloodstock for years now, and this fest reminds me a lot of Fozzy…getting bigger every year, and poised to take over the world! I promise that this will be the biggest Fozzy show EVER and we can’t wait to tear your f&@king heads off, England!!!!”
Greece’s biggest metal band Firewind are also thrilled to be part of Bloodstock this year. Firewind’s axe player Gus G stated; “We are very excited to be returning to the Bloodstock Festival next summer! This will be an exclusive UK gig for us, so you can count on a very special Firewind show! See you there!” The band are proud to be celebrating their 10th anniversary this year in grand style, with a number 1 album in their home country, and the first metal band to ever hit Number 1 in Greece, and are ready to bring Bloodstock a taster of their current Few Against Many album, which is out now.
On a side note: if you’ve never heard of Accept before or never heard them live – they’re crazy. To back up this fact, you can watch them perform ‘Balls to the Walls’ in New York City here:
You can also feast your eyes on Firewind’s awesome video ‘Wall of sound’ here as well:
