Alternative/Rock
Download Festival 2023; Sixty+ Acts Announced for 20th Anniversary Rock Weekend
Download Festival has announced the first acts for its 20th anniversary weekend taking place from 8th-11th June 2023. Get all the info here.
Download Festival has made the long-awaited announcement for their 20th anniversary weekend set to take place at Castle Donington from the 8th to 11th June 2023.
Organisers have confirmed that next year’s rock weekend will be headlined by Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot and Metallica. The latter will play two unique sets to close out the Thursday and Saturday nights.
Also joining the line-up will be Architects, Disturbed, Placebo, Evanescence, Ghost, Parkway Drive, Alexisonfire, Pendulum and Within Temptation.
The full line-up of bands announced reads as follows:
Alexisonfire
Architects
As December Falls
Asking Alexandria
Aviva
Bambie Thug
Beauty School Dropout
Behemoth
Blackgold
Blind Channel
Bloodywood
Bring Me The Horizon
Brutus
Crashface
Crawlers
Dead Sara
Disturbed
Elvana
Enola Gay
Evanescence
Fever 333
Fixation
Ghost
Graphic Nature
GWAR
Hawxx
Ingested
I Prevail
Jazmin Bean
Kid Bookie
Kid Kapichi
Lake Malice
Lorna Shore
Metallica
Mod Sun
Monuments
Motionless In White
Municipal Waste
nothing nowhere.
Nova Twins
Parkway Drive
Pendulum
Placebo
Polaris
Pupil Slicer
Seether
Set It Off
SiM
Simple Plan
Slipknot
Soen
Soul Glo
Stand Atlantic
Stray From The Path
Taylor Acorn
The Blackout
The Distillers
The Meffs
Terror
Three Days Grace
Touche Amore
VV
Witch Fever
Within Temptation
Check out our review and photos from Download Festival 2022.
Tickets and more information can be found on the Official Download Festival Website.
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