News Here’s when the first big Download Festival 2025 band announcement will beGet ready: there’s less than one month until Download Festival reveal more than 60 bands for next year’s line-up…
News Are Download Festival teasing Green Day for 2025?It’s already been confirmed that Green Day will be in Europe next June… have Download just dropped an almighty hint that Billie Joe and co. will headline Donington?
Reviews What happened when Avenged Sevenfold headlined Download 2024Avenged Sevenfold melt minds – and the sound system – at their successfully strange Download headline hat-trick.
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2024Download Festival 2024 is go! As is the annual Kerrang! rolling review, featuring all the best, can’t-be-missed stuff from the home of metal this weekend…
Reviews What happened when Fall Out Boy headlined Download 2024Pop-punk classics! Pyro! Pete Wentz floating through the air with balloons! Fall Out Boy conquer Download with spectacularly thought-out journey down memory lane…
News Electric Callboy cancel tomorrow’s Download set: “Unfortunately Nico got sick”With singer Nico Sallach coming down with illness, Electric Callboy have had to pull out of this weekend’s Download Festival.
Features Fall Out Boy: “When we get onstage, we as a band are still earning it. That’s exciting!”As Fall Out Boy prepare for their headlining turn at Download Festival, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz lift the lid on their past year of mega-shows, why they’ve always managed to avoid falling into a nostalgia trap, and how after Donington they’ll be embracing “the challenge of figuring out what the next thing is…”
Reviews What happened when Queens Of The Stone Age headlined Download 2024Josh Homme’s crew assert their status as rock royalty as they take Download on a trip…
Features Celestial Sanctuary: “This new breed of UK death metal boasts something grimier: a disgusting edge”Death metal is meant to be disgusting. Brit sickos Celestial Sanctuary understand this better than most. And though business is on the up-and-up, including a spot at Download, don’t expect them to tone down the reek of putrefaction anytime soon…
News Here’s the weather forecast for Download Festival 2024Summer in England has barely even begun this year… and it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting any hot weather at Castle Donington over the weekend, either.
News Pest Control, Scowl, Speed, ZULU and more pull out of Download 2024Six bands have pulled out of Download this weekend due to the festival’s payment partnership with Barclays – a bank accused of ‘investing in arms manufacturers supplying weapons used by Israel in Gaza’.
News Split Chain announce Palestinian charity donations after being added to Download billFollowing an online backlash for joining Download’s line-up in place of Pest Control, Split Chain have confirmed that they are “donating our entire artists fee… to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Medical Aid For Palestinians”.
Features The Struts: “We formed in f*cking Derby and suddenly got picked up in the U.S. – when does that ever happen?”Want real rock’n’roll? Here come The Struts, led by suave musical superhero Luke Spiller. Having relocated from Derby to LA, they’ve made America – and their heroes – fall in love with their very English flamboyance. Now they’re coming home to take the Apex Stage at Download. Hopefully it goes better than last time…
Features While She Sleeps’ Loz Taylor: “When this whole culture and community hit me, there was no going back”Skateboarder. Gig promoter. One-time professional football hopeful. Who is Loz Taylor, really? As While She Sleeps prepare to hit Download, we caught up with their livewire frontman to trace his journey from young Doncaster mosher to British metal icon, and learn how he’s still fighting to keep the scene that nurtured him alive…
News Here’s the set times for Download Festival 2024Ahead of next weekend’s annual Donington party, Download Festival have revealed this year’s stage times so you can get planning!
News Funeral For A Friend added to Download line-up in place of Bad OmensWith Bad Omens recently cancelling their upcoming live plans, Funeral For A Friend – with Lucas Woodland on vocals – will now be headlining Download Festival’s Opus Stage on Friday, June 14.
News Still shooting for the stars: An exclusive catch-up with Fall Out Boy – only in the new issue of Kerrang! magazineTwenty years on from their first UK tour, Fall Out Boy are about to headline Download. Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump reflect on their latest band milestone, and their incredible So Much (For) Stardust chapter as a whole…
