DESTRUCTION Confirmed For UK's BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR Festival

May 20, 2008

Veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION have been confirmed for this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 15-17, 2008 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England.

The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:

AKERCOCKE
ALESTORM
AS I LAY DYING
AT THE GATES
CLOUDSCAPE
COMMUNIC
CROWNING GLORY
DESTRUCTION
DIMMU BORGIR
ELUVEITIE
EVILE
GRAND MAGUS
HELLOWEEN
ICED EARTH
KATAKLYSM
KELTIC JIHAD
MOB RULES
MOONSORROW
NIGHTWISH
OPETH
OVERKILL
PRIMAL FEAR
PRO-JEKT
SAINT DEAMON
SOILWORK
SWALLOW THE SUN
TR

DESTRUCTION entered Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark on April 21 with producer Jacob Hansen to begin recording its new album, "D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N." An August 29 European release is expected.

"Celebrating 25 years of DESTRUCTION is, of course, an additional motivation to record a new classic," DESTRUCTION frontman Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer previously stated. "But the band has never before been so well prepared for a recording, and the new material is very dynamic crashing straight in your face! All thrash maniacs can now look forward to a merciless and varied album which will put its predecessors in the shade! Beware!!"

There are also plans for a full DESTRUCTION DVD release later in the year all in the cause of celebrating one-quarter century of classic German thrash metal with all the faithful fans worldwide.

DESTRUCTION's "Thrash Anthems" album, a collection of reworked/re-recorded versions of the band's classic tracks, was released in January 2007 via AFM Records.

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