Bloodstock Festival 2017: 10 Bands You Must See
9. Eradikator
Possessing the vocals of Metallica and the riffing of Sunday headliner Megadeth, the young Brits Eradikator are a perfect summation of old-school, '80s thrash metal, neatly condensed into four men from Birmingham.
More than proficient in the art of making very loud noises with drumkits and distorted guitars, Eradikator will truly find solace as they hit Bloodstock's Sophie Lancaster Stage on the morning of the Saturday.
After all, what better hangover cure is there than running quickly and aimlessly in circles and then into other people in a field in Derbyshire?
With the premier highlight of this under-heard quartet being their mastery of the origins of thrash and their uncanny ability to replicate it, it's safe to say that, for the hour that Eradikator is on-stage, Catton Hall Park may as well be 1983 San Francisco, with all the head-banging, moshing and walls of death that will be threatening to fill it.