Bloodstock Festival Countdown : 30 Bands Not To Miss

19. Trivium - Ronnie James Dio Stage - Headlining Friday

Ten years after their last Bloodstock headline excursion, Matt Heafy and his boys are back. It has been a bumpy ascension but there is nobody who would deny that Trivium now dine at metal’s top table. Their “The Poisoned Ascendancy” tour with Bullet for My Valentine earlier on in the year was a massive success and saw them graduate to finally being an arena band. The lashings of good will that the band manages to extort means that they will probably stay at that level now and it is nothing but deserved. On the night, they promise a career spanning set that will contain a good chunk of the ever green “Ascendancy” but will also wander across their other nine albums (yes there is now that much of a back catalogue). So enjoy as Trivium prove they are true metal survivors!