Alternative/Rock
Download Festival 2023; Alter Bridge & Halestorm Amongst 40 New Additions
Download Festival has announced forty more acts for the June weekender including rock giants Alter Bridge and Halestorm. Full details here.
Heading ever closer, Download Festival has announced forty new acts to the 2023 four-day event which will take place at Castle Donington from the 8th to the 11th June.
The 20th anniversary event will see metal giants Metallica play two unique sets (Thursday and Saturday) while Bring Me The Horizon and Slipknot will headline the Friday and Sunday respectively.
The full list of bands added to the bill reads as follows:
A.A. Williams
Alter Bridge
Antisaint
Avatar
Bad Wolves
Beauty School
Bob Vylan
Carcass
Carpenter Brut
Caskets
Cleopatrick
Clutch
Coheed And Cambria
Deaf Havana
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Electric Callboy
Empire State Bastard
Epica
Fearless Vampire Killers
Five Finger Death Punch
Green Lung
Greg Puciato
Halestorm
Hatebreed
Hot Milk
Ice Nine Kills
Jinjer
Joey Valence & Brae
Mammoth WVH
Mimi Barks
Mom Jeans
Neck Deep
Perturbator
PUP
Smash Into Pieces
Spirit Adrift
Taipei Houston
The Amity Affliction
The Bronx
The HU
The Warning
Tigress
Undeath
Download Festival takes places from 8th-11th June 2023 and you can pick up your tickets and get more info from the Official Download Festival Website.
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