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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…
Puscifer, Cancer Bats, Static Dress, Hundred Reasons and more have been added to Download Festival…
With little over a month to go, Download Festival have announced a dozen more bands and revealed the stage splits across the weekend.
Joining the already stacked line-up, Download have unveiled the following names across the four-day weekend: Cancer Bats, Casey, Hundred Reasons, State Champs, Static Dress, Puscifer, Punk Rock Factory, Haken, Snayx, Redhook, Rituals and Cherry Bombs.
These 12 bands join a stellar bill that features headline performances from Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot and two nights of Metallica playing completely different sets.
But who else will you be able to fit in across the weekend? Here are the stage splits for this year's Download…
Apex Stage
Metallica, Alter Bridge, Halestorm, Jinjer, Mammoth WVH
Opus Stage
Five Finger Death Punch, Puscifer, Hundred Reasons, The Bronx, Cancer Bats, Cherry Bombs
The Avalanche Stage
State Champs, Mom Jeans, Punk Rock Factory, Fearless Vampire Killers, Tigress
Dogtooth Stage
Perturbator, Haken, A.A. Williams, Caskets, Mimi Barks, Snayx
Apex Stage
Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Pendulum, Neck Deep, Hot Milk, Nova Twins, Stand Atlantic
Opus Stage
Evanescence, Within Temptation, Asking Alexandria, Epica, Elvana, Smash Into Pieces, The Warning
The Avalanche Stage
VV, PUP, The Blackout, Crawlers, Aviva, As December Falls, Redhook, Fixation
Dogtooth Stage
Carpenter Brut, GWAR, Empire State Bastard, Brutus, Ingested, Undeath, Pupil Slicer, Witch Fever, Taipei Houston
Apex Stage
Metallica, Disturbed, Alexisonfire, Clutch, Ice Nine Kills, FEVER 333, Polaris
Opus Stage
Placebo, Simple Plan, Three Days Grace, Motionless In White, Carcass, Municipal Waste, Stray From The Path, Static Dress
The Avalanche Stage
Coheed And Cambria, Deaf Havana, Bob Vylan, nothing,nowhere., Kid Kapichi, Casey, BLACKGOLD, Rituals
Dogtooth Stage
Monuments, Greg Puciato, Spirit Adrift, Enola Gay, Bambie Thug, Beauty School Dropout, Lake Malice, Kid Bookie, Antisaint
Apex Stage
Slipknot, Parkway Drive, I Prevail, Behemoth, The HU, Lorna Shore, Bloodywood
Opus Stage
Ghost, The Distillers, Palaye Royale, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Avatar, The Amity Affliction, SiM, Blind Channel
The Avalanche Stage
Electric Callboy, Set It Off, MOD SUN, Cleopatrick, Jazmin Bean, Joey Valence & Brae, Taylor Acorn, Crashface
Dogtooth Stage
Hatebreed, Touché Amoré, Terror, Soen, Green Lung, Soul Glo, The Meffs, HAWXX, Graphic Nature, Beauty School
Stage times are yet to be announced, but it's safe to say we're going to be doing a lot of running around all weekend!
Download Festival takes place June 8 – 11 at Donington Park, Derbyshire.