Swindon’s Final of Metal 2 The Masses takes place at Level III on April 28th. The winner will be given the opportunity to play the Hobgoblin New Blood Stage at Bloodstock Festival later this year along with the chance to acquire slots on festivals around the continent.
The venue has been building up to this for weeks with four rounds of Metal 2 The Masses in Swindon these past few months, and from those four heats there are now four finalists: Ursus (a progressive metal group from the South West), Merithian (a Swindon nu-metal group), Not Quite Dead (Stroud’s premier headbangers) and Severed Illusions (a hardcore/nu-metal outfit). Mortishead, winner of Bristol’s heats in 2015, will be headlining the show and keeping everyone in sweaty anticipation before the winner is chosen.
“Metal To The Masses is a great opportunity for these new and upcoming bands to get a slot at Bloodstock Festival on the New Blood Stage which sits next to the main stage at the festival,” says Michael Daniels, the owner of Dredded Vyrus Promotions and the man putting together Swindon’s heats. “This gives these bands a potential audience of up to 20,000 people and chances to obtain sponsorship deals and the possibility to go on to play Waken Fest in Germany!”
Doors will open at 19:30 this Friday and by the time the night is over there will be a 2017 winner of Metal 2 The Masses Swindon! A bottle of Kraken, a crate of Hobgoblin and a weekend pass to Bloodstock Festival will available to win in the raffle.
Metal 2 The Masses is a regional competition where small, local Metal bands of all persuasions fight it out in a typical ‘Battle of the Bands’ format to win the approval of the audience and judges. Making it in this competition can’t happen without audience approval – and a great show. The competition happens every year and is open to both signed and unsigned bands.
Should a band manage to play in 2017 then they also stand the chance of playing Metaldays (Slovenia) and soon we will be announcing further competing festivals within Europe. In real terms Metaldays stand alongside Bloodstock as the major independent festivals and will again give the overall winning band a major in road to success in the bigger market.
