Download Festival 2025 promises to be another huge one, with three first-time headliners soundly debunking the "there are no more headliners" theory and proving, once again, that rock music is in rude health.
It might not match the scale of 2023's 20th-anniversary celebration, which provided a full four days of music instead of the usual three, but if 2023 proved anything – and 2024 certainly proved it again – it's that Download can still pull a massive crowd if that right bill is put in place.
It's been a strange period for the Donington Park faithful. Following a mammoth 2019 with headlining sets from Def Leppard, Slipknot and Tool, plans for the 2020 event were in full swing, with site improvements in place and bands galore.
Then, of course, came covid, and the postponement of the festival for a year. And then another year. It's what nobody wanted, and while Download Pilot did a valiant effort of bringing Download spirit to challenging times, it was Download 2022 that truly righted the ship, with Kiss, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro bringing the heat, while 2023 and 2024 just turned it up further. Now it feels like Download Festival isn't just back, but it's building a route into the future.
Here's everything we know about Download Festival 2025.
When is Download festival 2025?
Download festival will take place on the weekend of June 13-15 2025
Where is Download Festival 2025?
Download festival will take place at its long-traditional home of Donington Park, Derbyshire, the former home of the iconic Monsters Of Rock festival.
Where can I get tickets for Download Festival 2025?
Early bird options have been exhausted, but a wide range of ticket packages are available from Ticketmaster.
Who is playing Download festival 2025?
Headlining Download 2025 will be punk icons Green Day – who've never played the festival before – plus the astonishingly fast-rising Sleep Token and nu-metal heavyweights Korn. Weezer, Bullet For My Valentine, Spiritbox, the Sex Pistols feat. Frank Carter, Within Temptation, McFly, Jimmy Eat World and dozens more have also been confirmed for the Leicestershire weekender.
The full line-up (announced so far) is below.
Download 2025 - confirmed acts
Green Day
Sleep Token
Korn
Airbourne
Alcest
Alien Ant Farm
Amira Elfeky
Anaal Naehrakh
Apocalyptica
Archers
Bad Nerves
Arrows In Action
Artio
Battlesnake
Bex
Bleed From Within
Boston Manor
Bullet For My Valentine
Cky
Cradle Of Filth
Currents
Dayseeker
Dead Poet Society
Dead Pony
Don Broco
Eagles Of Death Metal
Eivør
Faetooth
Filter
Fit For An Autopsy
Frank Carter & The Sex Pistols
Gore
Graphic Nature
Harpy
Holy Wars
House Of Protection
Jerry Cantrell
Jimmy Eat World
Jinjer
Karen Dió
Kim Dracula
Kittie
Lastelle
Loathe
Lølø
Lorna Shore
Mallory Knox
Mcfly
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Melted Bodies
Meshuggah
Northlane
Novelists
Nothing More
Orbit Culture
Polaris
Poppy
Riding The Low
Seven Hours After Violet
Sikth
Sim
Sophie Lloyd
Split Chain
Spiritbox
Spiritual Cramp
Starset
Static Dress
Steel Panther
Survive Said The Prophet
Svalbard
Sylosis
Teen Mortgage
The Darkness
The Funeral Portrait
The Ghost Inside
The Haunt
The Meffs
The Scratch
The Southern River Band
Trophy Eyes
Turbonegro
Underside
Unprocessed
Venus Grrrls
Vola
Vower
Vowws
Weezer
Whitechapel
Windhand
Within Temptation
