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Download Festival issue statement about trans toilets policy

After 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”.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Download Festival announce 2025 stage times

With 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.

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Unknown band PRESIDENT drop teaser ahead of next month’s big reveal

The 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.

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Download reveal 2025 District X line-up: Vengaboys, Dani Filth, Dougie Poynter and more

The 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.

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Under Cover: How Sleep Token took masks in music to a whole new level

From 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…

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The inevitability of Spiritbox

Spiritbox 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...

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There will be “multiple secret sets” at Download Festival 2025

Download have confirmed that this year’s edition of the festival will feature “multiple secret sets” – but who will they be?!

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Download Festival reveal full 2025 day and stage splits

Planners at the ready, people… Download Festival 2025’s day and stage splits are here!

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Who are PRESIDENT? Mysterious band added to Download line-up, but there’s no music out there

Download revealed this week that an unknown band called PRESIDENT will be playing this year’s festival – and it’s at Donington Park that “the inauguration begins…”

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Rise Against, Shinedown, Opeth and more join Download Festival 2025 line-up

Download Festival have added 22 more artists to their 2025 line-up, including Rise Against, Shinedown, Opeth, Palaye Royale, Hatebreed and Kids In Glass Houses.

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PVRIS tease new version of My House with Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante

This week, PVRIS and Courtney LaPlante will drop a new version of My House – a song originally taken from the alt.pop star’s debut album White Noise.

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Here’s when the next Download Festival 2025 announcement is coming

Get ready, Download Festival fans: the next line-up announcement is arriving in less than a week’s time!

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Why Sleep Token are going to “win people over” when they headline Download Festival 2025

Sleep Token are topping the bill at this year’s Download, off the back of an epic tour that included two nights at London’s 20,000-capacity The O2. It’s a bold move when any band is elevated to the top of the British rock mountain, but here, head honcho Andy Copping explains why the time is now for the Donington masses to gather and Worship…

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The live shows that defined Slipknot, as told by Corey and Clown

From unhinged performances in Des Moines’ smallest sweatboxes to the controlled chaos of their arena-conquering present day, the story of Slipknot is one that has been written on the stage. Corey Taylor and Clown look back on the defining shows of The Nine’s lives…

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Download Festival issue statement about trans toilets policy

Inside Green Day’s Download debut – only in the new issue of Kerrang!

Download team up with Lush for “festival-revival” kit

A message from PRESIDENT: “We did not come to whisper. We came to build”

Download Festival announce 2025 stage times

Unknown band PRESIDENT drop teaser ahead of next month’s big reveal

Download reveal 2025 District X line-up: Vengaboys, Dani Filth, Dougie Poynter and more

Under Cover: How Sleep Token took masks in music to a whole new level

The inevitability of Spiritbox

There will be “multiple secret sets” at Download Festival 2025

Download Festival reveal full 2025 day and stage splits

Who are PRESIDENT? Mysterious band added to Download line-up, but there’s no music out there

Rise Against, Shinedown, Opeth and more join Download Festival 2025 line-up

PVRIS tease new version of My House with Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante

Here’s when the next Download Festival 2025 announcement is coming

Why Sleep Token are going to “win people over” when they headline Download Festival 2025

The live shows that defined Slipknot, as told by Corey and Clown

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