M2TM Manchester

01/07/2025

Road to Bloodstock Festival: VMBRA

Another one to watch, this lot on the Friday New Blood lineup!

Full interview on our website now.

13/06/2025

Wonderful to see this years winners VMBRA added to the lineup of RADAR Festival this year!

📢// MASTERCLASSES, PRE-PARTY AND SOME MORE BANDS!

THREE WEEKS TO GO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL! We’re excited to announce the Masterclass lineup for RADAR 2025. We’ve cherry-picked some of the lineup (and invited YouTube sensation Sophie Burrell along too!) to bring you some truly engaging masterclasses.

We’ve had a couple of lineup changes.Oceans Ate Alaska VMBRA and Brioche to join the RADAR 2025 lineup, as sadly, Allt, Deity’s Muse, and Alyx Holcombe cannot make it any longer.

We can also announce that the 2025 after-parties will be held at O2 Victoria Warehouse. So once the headliners finish if you want the party to continue, you can head over to The Sneak Energy Stage to catch and

📲// STAGE SPLITS & TIMINGS: Search on your app store for “RADAR Festival” to get full stage splits and artist timings. We’re starting to update it at speed now. So this is where to head for up-to-date info!

📲// TICKETS: Tickets are flying this year; don’t miss out!

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11/06/2025

Many thanks to Vee and Ace from Out Of Rage Network for coming along to review our Grand Final last week. Glad you enjoyed it 😁

You can read it here.

This year’s M2TM Manchester Finals was nothing short of legendary. Held at the iconic Rebellion venue, the night brought together a stunning mix of local talent, past champions, and guest bands to celebrate the very best of the underground metal scene. With pits erupting, bodies flying, and riffs ...

07/06/2025

Big Iove to Bloodstock Festival TV for coming to film our M2TM Manchester 2025 Grand Final. It was a pleasure and a honour. See you at Bloodstock mate

05/06/2025

A really fun review of last weekends M2TM Manchester 2025 Grand Final by Heavy Metal Hikers: well worth a watch. We've been loving their video's lately so please go and give them a follow :)

The time this year is quickly passing by, and we found ourselves already at the Bloodstock Metal To The Masses Final. The line up for the day was stacked, wi...

04/06/2025

Big shout out to our M2TM Manchester 2025 Grand Final After show Party band KRB - Kerrang Revival Band. They kept a class audience in til the early hours.

"🤘🤟🏻" - Jack Armitage

03/06/2025

Very proud to see our winners VMBRA name in lights. Cannot wait to see them blow people away.

BLOODSTOCK 2025 ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥

It’s about time to reveal the first batch of winners from this year’s hotly contested Metal 2 The Masses finals for The Timothy Taylor's Brewery New Blood Stage!

Get to know the bands who’ll be joining Friday’s bill:
🔥 If It Bleeds, a five-piece delivering hardcore-infused metal in spades, make their mark on the New Blood Stage
🔥 ThunarWülf, fusing folk melodies, myths, and thunderous riffing
🔥 VMBRA, offering a fresh progressive rock/metal hybrid;
🔥 COMPOUNDS, who won over the Southampton final with their punked up, melodic hardcore edge
🔥 Baelfýr, the top dogs in Leicester, bringing a blackened death metal assault with accessible bite

Saturday the New Blood Stage welcomes:
🔥 Nothing Speaks, this young hard rock outfit blend grunge and groove with nods to classic influences like Alice In Chains, bringing gritty energy to the day’s proceedings.

Sunday the New Blood Stage rounds out the weekend with:
🔥 Theocracide, furnishing headbangers with a hefty dose of thrash metal steeped in crossover/hardcore intensity. Representing further afield
🔥 Speak In Whispers - will showcase their progressive groove metal, and are reputed for their high-energy performance and intricate heaviness.

Catch these rising names - and many more still to be announced - at BLOODSTOCK this summer, where the future of heavy music is forged in fire!

01/06/2025

Well what can we say, M2TM Manchester 2025 Grand Final is over and the dust behind to settle on another amazing year of M2TM is over and the winner has been chosen by Bloodstock Festival
But let's hear it for all our bands today, the level of quality is phenomenal. We're so unbelievably proud of them all, phenomenal musicians and truly great people too.
Technologist put on a world class performance today, watching them go from strength to strength this year has been awe inspiring.
VMBRA made grown men cry with a mix of power and musicianship that the world needs to see.
covert uk blew everyone away, only young but played a set beyond their years. I was constantly reminded of first album era Slipknot. They're going to have a big future
Lastly but by no means least DWINGLE brought the party like only they can. Making everyone beam with broad smiles.
Sadly there can only be one winner and this year's Manchester representative on the new blood stage will be 🥁 VMBRA.
A longer soppier post is going to be coming once we've all had some well earned rest.
What a year, what a scene. It's an honour to be in the company of such legends.
Much love to you all
On behalf of us all at the 0161 thank you for coming along and partying with us and celebrating the most wonderful music scene we know.
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31/05/2025

Our awesome headliners The Crawling playing a stunning set at M2TM Manchester 2025 Grand Final at Rebellion Manchester
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31/05/2025

Previous winners the mighty Hellbearer bringing absolute carnage to M2TM Manchester 2025 Grand Final
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31/05/2025

Previous winners Square Wild working actual magic on stage tonight: glorious to watch
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