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Bloodstock Open Air is a heavy metal-based rock festival held yearly each August since 2005 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. It is described as the United Kingdom's largest independent metal festival, with more than 100 bands playing on several stages and around 20,000 attendees. It is similar to Leicestershire's Download Festival, but Bloodstock is smaller, traditionally focuses on heavy metal, and includes underground bands as well as mainstream ones. Bloodstock has a New Blood stage, reserved for at least thirty new and unsigned bands; these are chosen through 'Metal to the Masses' regional battle of the bands contests held throughout the UK and Ireland.
