28. Frozen soul - Sophie Lancaster stage - Thursday, August 10th around 6:30-7.00pm

This year's Bloodstock Festival is serving up a wide variety of death metal. By wandering around the plane of Catton Hall you will be able to see it in its many different guises. There is melodic, technical, core and symphonic a plenty. However, if all these bells and whistles iterations are a little too much for you and you hanker after some communal garden old school death metal then Frozen Soul is the one for you. 

This is death metal like a grandmother used to make it (if of course your grandmother was a member of Blothrower). Crisp, crunching and monumentally heavy, there is something wonderfully primal about what they are doing. In a world where every band seems to be trying to shove more into everything, Frozen Soul’s second album “Glacial Domination” is a masterclass in stripped back power. Minimal but brimming with slow burning energy, it feels effortless in its crushing intensity.

So you want to start your weekend as you mean to go on and be immersed in a sound bath of organic density, then stop faffing around it and get into Sophie early on Thursday. You will thank me I can assure you.