Bloodstock 2024 – Band Feature: Biomechanimal

Bloodstock Open Air 2024 is right around the corner. Taking place August 8th to August 11th, the UK’s premier metal festival has, once again, delivered a stellar line-up. Featuring four stages of music and a litany of bands from within the rock and metal world, alongside numerous other forms of entertainment (such as official bin jousting)! You don’t want to miss out, so get off that fence, and pick up your tickets now!

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There are a lot of bands on the bill, and some you may not be that familiar with, which is where we come in. As is our yearly custom, we will be running features on many of the bands playing, aiming to give you some insight into who they are, what they do, and why they are a must see at the festival.

Biomechanimal

Bloodstock has a good track record when it comes to heavy industrial metal bands, and the New Blood stage is getting an injection of danceable head banging noise with the mighty Biomechanimal on the Saturday of the festival.

Hailing from the English capital, London, Biomechanimal have been defying genres, wrecking necks, and breaking hips since 2013. Not just releasing a ton of material in that time, but playing live all around the world.

It was their self-titled debut album in 2015 that firmly put them on the map. Immediately showcasing that they could fit on any industrial bill (and if you’ve seen some of the industrial big-hitters, you’ve probably seen Biomechanimal on those bills) and that they were the future of heavy EDM. Tracks like Elder Gods and Monster are as strong now as they were nine years ago.

That was just the start though, and since then they have regularly released music with tracks like Enter the Animal, End Your Life, Crown of Glass, King of Cups, Corrupt, and Inhale the Ashes pushing Biomechanimal’s popularity to even greater heights. Especially as they evolve and experiment each and every time they release something new.

Biomechanimal on record is special, but live, they’re a different beast altogether. Ask anyone who has seen them live and you’ll be told that you’ve not experienced dark industrial music to its fullest, until you’ve seen Biomechanimal live.

Bloodstock Open Air 2024 offers you the opportunity to experience Biomechanimal live. Playing the New Blood stage on the Saturday of the festival, it is going to a wickedly devilish party. Don’t take our word for it though. We spoke to Matt of Biomechanimal about what it means to play Bloodstock 2024, what the festival means overall, and what attendees can expect from the Biomechanimal show.

Biomechanimal is my baby, so I’ll answer this one personally. To the best of my knowledge, I believe Bloodstock was the first festival I ever went to, back in 2010. It’s the seat of power for British extreme metal, a jewel in a very illustrious crown. To be able to now play it, bring our show to the Bloodstock stage, is a very big deal to me personally, and us as a band; it’s a representation of how far we’ve come as a band, and I as an artist. I love music, I love metal, metalheads, meeting other musicians, and Bloodstock is the magnum opus of what the UK can offer.

Industrial as a musical genre is always going to sit in a weird place. To oversimplify this, it’s too electronic for metalheads, and too metal for people who aren’t that alternative. Yet it sits in this weird middle ground where it tries to appeal to both, and neither all at once. Especially in the UK, this scene has been in a weird place for a while. And yet, this year at Bloodstock, we have Combichrist, Igorrr, Ludivoco Technique, Mimi Barks; this is really, really cool, having all this industrial and industrial adjacent music. For us, being able to fly the flag of British Industrial at Bloodstock, show off our craft, have a real good time doing it? That’s why we do this. I hope this opens the door for the host of incredible British industrial talent, I truly do.

Okay, here we go. This is not going to be just another set. Biomechanimal is… a lot of things. We love a lot of music, we don’t really fall into strict genre niches. And that’s the way we like it. Expect trombones, expect slamming riffs, expect zaagkicks, expect blastbeats, expect 3AM slimelight basslines, expect raw vocals, expect things to be climbed. We are raw, we are powerful, and we’re here to have a good time. If you’ve never seen bio before, we can with confidence say it’s not quite like anything else. You might love it, you may hate it. But it’ll be something fresh. We’ll see you in the pit.

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