M2TM: SCOTLAND Heats – full information! Scotland is finally entering its first week of Bloodstock Festival’s METAL 2 THE MASSES for 2023! All information for the first round of Heats is now live. So if you’re looking for venues, door times, lineups, ticket links and more, it’s all here! Usually…

M2TM: SCOTLAND 2023 BEGINS! Bloodstock Festival’s live initiative, Metal 2 The Masses is returning North of the wall for 2023! Again, Slow Dragon Music is at the helm of event series in Scotland, with plans in motion to take it around multiple towns and cities once more. It’s early days,…

M2TM: Scotland – Out not down! We’re almost done with the Metal 2 The Masses: Scotland Semi-finals! The bands who made it this far are all top of their game, but let’s not forget the legends who bowed out in the Heats! Below, we have a recap of no-less-than FOURTEEN…

M2TM 2022!!! We finally got there! Gigs are open in Scotland again, and 2022’s Metal 2 The Masses is rolling out! For those of you unfamiliar with M2TM, it is a live events based initiative from Bloodstock Open Air Festival. It reaches out all around the UK, as well as…

Nassau For Bloodstock!!! Bloodstock Festival have just announced another chunk of superb metal acts, added to their 2021 bill. This particular swathe is mostly made up of Metal 2 The Masses winners, including Scotland’s Nassau! Every band up here worked incredibly hard, and stuck with us though trials and tribulations…

M2TM Scotland Goes Digital In somewhat of a heartbreaking decision, it has been realised that we can no longer proceed with Metal 2 The Masses Scotland 2021 as a live event.  We were somewhat prepared for this eventuality, as discussed in our most recent M2TM update: “In line with the most…

M2TM Scottish Final 2021 With updates to restrictions, and Scotland’s first metal gig since lockdown having taken place, it’s time for a hefty Metal 2 The Masses refresher! As we mentioned previously, we have kept all of the participating bands from the 2020 M2TM in the running. As the pandemic…

Metal 2 The Masses is back!!! Bloodstock Open Air‘s Metal 2 The Masses initiative is returning to the live scene, now that lockdown restrictions are set to ease in time for the Summer season. The initiative, which unlocks the path to festival performances for unsigned bands, was put on indefinite…

2020; The year that keeps on giving. Most recently, it gave Slow Dragon Music a catastrophic website failure, which was a delight only suitable to this current solar cycle! The dragon is a patient creature, though, and now, slowly, re-emerges from this unexpected torpor… The site basics are still the…

Underground In Prydain: Fede Valls – M2TM Glasgow Originally posted 07th March 2018 As far as UK ‘battle of the bands’ events go, particularly for underground metal, they don’t come hotter than Bloodstock‘s Metal 2 The Masses. The competition sees the country light up with heavy music activity every year….