Download Festival

News

Download tease “the next chapter” of Sleep Token at 2025 festival

With this year’s Rituals all done and dusted, Download Festival are teasing that Sleep Token fans can “witness the next chapter” at Donington in 2025…

News

Green Day, Sleep Token, Korn and over 90 more bands confirmed for Download Festival 2025

It’s here! Download have revealed a huge portion of next year’s line-up, with three first-time headliners – Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn – plus the likes of Weezer, Sex Pistols, Bullet For My Valentine, Spiritbox, The Darkness, Loathe and even McFly…

News

Download Festival confirm exact time and date of their first major 2025 announcement

Mark your calendars, people: Download are revealing the first wave of bands on next year’s line-up – including the headliners – on Tuesday evening…

News

Here’s when the first big Download Festival 2025 band announcement will be

Get 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 2024

Avenged Sevenfold melt minds – and the sound system – at their successfully strange Download headline hat-trick.

Reviews

The big review: Download Festival 2024

Download 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 2024

Pop-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 2024

Josh 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 2024

Summer 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 2024

Six 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 bill

Following 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…

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Download tease “the next chapter” of Sleep Token at 2025 festival

Green Day, Sleep Token, Korn and over 90 more bands confirmed for Download Festival 2025

Download Festival confirm exact time and date of their first major 2025 announcement

Here’s when the first big Download Festival 2025 band announcement will be

Are Download Festival teasing Green Day for 2025?

What happened when Avenged Sevenfold headlined Download 2024

The big review: Download Festival 2024

What happened when Fall Out Boy headlined Download 2024

Electric Callboy cancel tomorrow’s Download set: “Unfortunately Nico got sick”

Fall Out Boy: “When we get onstage, we as a band are still earning it. That’s exciting!”

What happened when Queens Of The Stone Age headlined Download 2024

Celestial Sanctuary: “This new breed of UK death metal boasts something grimier: a disgusting edge”

Here’s the weather forecast for Download Festival 2024

Pest Control, Scowl, Speed, ZULU and more pull out of Download 2024

Split Chain announce Palestinian charity donations after being added to Download bill

The Struts: “We formed in f*cking Derby and suddenly got picked up in the U.S. – when does that ever happen?”

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