Warbringer — Bloodstock Open Air 2025

Shortly after noon on August 9, 2025, Warbringer makes its Bloodstock debut. More than twenty years after the band formed, the occasion comes on the Ronnie James Dio Stage at Catton Park. Wrath and Ruin, released in March, reaches the festival represented by The Sword and the Cross.

John Kevill leads eight songs before a crowd that opens circle pits and kicks up dust. Firepower Kills sets things off; Crushed Beneath the Tracks and Woe to the Vanquished draw voices back toward the stage. Remain Violent brings the sing-alongs together near the end, before Living Weapon closes the band's allotted forty minutes.

The debut gets a professional multicamera recording, preserved in full in the festival's audiovisual programming. With no separate DVD or Blu-ray release confirmed, the performance remains a document of this English stop. The set is short, but captures a precise moment: a group with a new album finally takes a stage it has never played before.