Bloodstock 2025 Band Feature: Ofnus

Carl Fisher 3 min read

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s Bloodstock time and 2025 is looking to be one of the best events the festival has ever put on, if we’re judging it by bands… which we are, of course.

Taking place at Catton Park, Derbyshire from August 7th to August 10th, Bloodstock Festival 2025 has not only sold out all its weekend tickets, but it also sold out day tickets for the Saturday and the Sunday and it seems likely that Friday will follow suit before the festival actually starts. Boasting a lineup that includes the likes of Emperor, Lacuna Coil, Ministry, Mastodon, Fear Factory, Static-X, Nailbomb, Kataklysm, Obituary, and headliners, Trivium, Machine Head, Gojira, and so much more spread across four stages, it’s going to be one hell of a weekend.

Ofnus

Beautiful misery. Two words that don’t belong together, but two words that summarise this new Ofnus album, and the band itself. Wrapped within a black shroud, it might seem as though an album like this offers little more than extreme heaviness and wicked intensity, but it has deep and dark depths that create a more emotional experience. The more time spent in the company of Ofnus, the more music like this connects.

 

 

These are words we wrote about Ofnus’ latest album, ‘Valediction’, which was released earlier this year. An album that showed immense growth within the atmospheric and melodic black metal band’s sound and an album that proved to be a mighty follow-up to their stunning debut album, Time Held Me Grey and Dying. An album we rated 10/10 with songs that got the attention of Bloodstock, resulting in them playing the New Blood stage at the 2023 edition of the festival.

An early morning Sunday treat that piled the thrilling misery on thickly. Causing tears to flow, souls to ache, and heads to bang with a brilliant showcase of blackened desolation.

Now, they get to do it again, this time on the Sophie stage, Bloodstock proving again that the chance to step up the stages is there for everyone.

We can’t wait to wallow with Ofnus again, so we asked them: what does it means to be asked to come back and play on a bigger stage, what they learned from playing Bloodstock last time, how much of a boost playing the festival was, and what attendees can expect from their set this time around. This is what they had to say:

It is an undeniable privilege to return to Bloodstock in 2025, 2 years on from our memorable Sunday morning New Blood performance. A performance opportunity like that as a 6th live show was vital in getting our name out there particularly as a fledgling band, and has really opened some doors for us. More importantly though, it has instilled a hunger for more of the same and bigger experiences.

You don’t achieve without grafting, so since then we have put in the work, performing up and down the country, releasing a brand new record, etc. We didn’t want the New Blood experience to be a flash in the pan, and fortunately that’s not gone unnoticed at Bloodstock HQ.

So, this time round on that much larger stage? We’ll be bringing a new setlist that will showcase the full broad spectrum and nuances of our maudlin soundscapes. Getting to perform some our newest, heaviest and emotionally gripping material on a stage like that through a PA that’s going to sound that massive is such an opportunity, that we are going to ensure that we are an unmissable experience for all those who opt to bear witness. We have utilised every second, be it blast beats, epic film score, haunting melodies… close your eyes and let it in.

Bright and early on the Friday. Cofleidiwch ofn – does dim troi yn ôl.




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