Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2025 – SundayIt’s the last day of Download 2025 – here’s how the final Donington celebration is signing off for another year…
Reviews What happened when PRESIDENT played Download Festival 2025PRESIDENT get our vote as they make their live debut – aka the band’s inaugural presidential rally – at Download 2025…
Reviews What happened when Sleep Token headlined Download Festival 2025Sleep Token unveil a total takeover of Donington as they step up to headline Download for the first time…
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2025 – SaturdayAt Download 2025’s midway point, this is everything that’s happening on day two at Donington Park…
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2025 – FridayAs it happens, this is everything going down at Donington Park on the first day of Download Festival 2025.
Reviews What happened when Green Day headlined Download Festival 2025Download gets a big “Heeeeeey oooooh” as Green Day finally make their stunning, powerful, feisty headlining debut.
News Here’s the weather forecast for Download Festival 2025Suncream or wellies? Band tees or raincoats? It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and as Download Festival 2025 fast approaches, here’s how the weather in Castle Donington is looking…
Features Green Day: “This has been one of my favourite eras that we’ve ever had”Green Day are finally, finally coming to Download. Which, as festival experts, is long overdue. Fresh from their spell at Coachella, Billie Joe Armstrong looks forward to making their mark at the home of rock, recalls the madness of their first Brit fest experiences, and how they’re ending Saviors soon to preserve it…
News Download Festival issue statement about trans toilets policyAfter a previous email regarding their toilets policy received backlash from NOAHFINNCE, Pinkshift, Witch Fever and festival fans, Download have confirmed that “the majority of toilets will be gender neutral and available to all”.
News Inside Green Day’s Download debut – only in the new issue of Kerrang!Green Day have done it all – apart from Donington. Before they finally destroy Download Festival this June, K! joins Billie Joe Armstrong for a celebration of their monumental Saviors era, and ticking off yet more band milestones…
News Download team up with Lush for “festival-revival” kit“Dive into the wash-pit”: Download Festival have revealed a collab with Lush, featuring a trio of products to use at Donington and when you get home after…
Features A message from PRESIDENT: “We did not come to whisper. We came to build”As PRESIDENT unleash their debut single In The Name Of The Father, we put in a request to interview the mysterious new band. This is what they told us.
News Download Festival announce 2025 stage timesWith just 30 days to go now until Download kicks off, the festival have revealed this year’s full set times so you can get planning.
News Unknown band PRESIDENT drop teaser ahead of next month’s big revealThe countdown is on, and we’ve got 43 days until we find out who PRESIDENT are and what they’re all about ahead of their performance at Download Festival in June.
News Download reveal 2025 District X line-up: Vengaboys, Dani Filth, Dougie Poynter and moreThe line-up has been unveiled for Download’s packed District X, with the festival promising its “biggest and most diverse” offering at Donington so far.
Features Under Cover: How Sleep Token took masks in music to a whole new levelFrom KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, though. Looking further back to the relationship between face decoration and themes of anonymity and identity, comedy and tragedy, theatre and ritual, one can uncover a whole world going on beneath their surface, going all the way to the beginning of humanity itself…
Features The inevitability of SpiritboxSpiritbox have been on the crest of a wave for years now. From dropping devastating debut Eternal Blue to commanding crowds of thousands, it’s been one triumph after another. As Courtney LaPlante and Mike Stringer explain, though, second album Tsunami Sea simply finds them going with the flow...
