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“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

The rise of the of the 21st century’s most unexpected metal sensations

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Download fans complain of thefts as Frank Carter has gold chain swiped during performance

Exclusive: Fans say they had phones and money snatched from them while they enjoyed live music at the Leicestershire festival, while singer Frank Carter had his necklace stolen mid-performance

The Independent UK

10 bands that defined Download 2024

From historic Download debuts to returning heroes, surprise sets to stage dives in the mud, these are the 10 performances that defined an unforgettable weekend at Donington

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"Wes Borland still dresses like a hard rock Grace Jones and Fred Durst still holds 80,000 people in the palm of his hand." Limp Bizkit show Download why they remain metal's greatest party band

Download bears witness to why no one does it quite like Limp Bizkit

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Download festival review – the rock fest’s most cursed year ever

Plagued by rain, technical issues and boycotts – as well as by some distinctly non-metal headliners – the weekend is practically a washout, despite some virtuoso shredding and fiery melodeath lower down the bill

The Guardian - UK

Barclays suspends sponsorship of Download, Latitude and Isle of Wight festivals

Move follows protests from bands and fans over the bank providing financial services to defence companies supplying Israel

The Guardian - UK

“We will not take part in an event whose sponsor profits from facilitating a genocide.” Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Pest Control boycott Download festival due to sponsor Barclays investing in companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel

Six bands withdraw from Download 2024 in solidarity with the Palestinian people

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Watch Norse shamans Heilung’s mesmerising performance of Traust at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre

You can also see the ‘Amplified History’ group live in person on a European tour that stops at the Download and Glastonbury festivals

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"Topics like necrophilia are just kind of ‘whatever’ at this point." Gore-loving death metal veterans Dying Fetus are bored of trying to shock people

We chat to Dying Fetus growler/guitarist John Gallagher about death metal, South Park and that legendary hashtag

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Want to attend Download, Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, ArcTanGent or Bearded Theory festival for free? Here's how you can do it, while also helping others

If you're interested in free access to a range of UK festivals in exchange for volunteering, Oxfam wants to hear from you

Metal Hammer

When is Download Festival? 2024 Limp Bizkit join line-up for metal event

Download Festival is coming back once again for a weekend packed with moshpits and rock icons

Evening Standard

This footage of Slipknot making 90,000 people jump up at Download shows they seem to be doing just fine

After a turbulent week, videos emerging from Slipknot's triumphant headline set at Download show they are putting their troubles behind them

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Watch: hundreds of fans started circle pitting around Parkway Drive's Winston McCall in the middle of their Download set and it looks amazing

Have you ever seen fans circle pitting AROUND a singer before?!

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Download Festival at Donington Park: this 20th anniversary of the rock-fest was a smasher

From Metallica to Nova Twins, the rock get-together showcased heavy metal’s changing of the guard

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Download headliners Metallica make 'lifeline' donation to local homeless charity

Thrash icons donate £40,000 to homeless charity based near Download festival site in Leicester, England

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Bring Me The Horizon's spectacular Download set proved it's time to let the next generation of headliners in

Bring Me The Horizon finally got to headline Download - and they made the most of it with the most spectacular stage show of the weekend

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Residents living near the Download site at Donington are complaining that the world's biggest rock festival is too noisy

In the most British news of the week, Download festival's neighbours aren't chuffed that their ears are hurty-wurty sore now because LOUD MUSIC

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Kirk Hammett recalls Joey Jordison's onstage tears before playing Enter Sandman with Metallica at Download

Metallica's Kirk Hammett relives playing Download 2004 with Joey Jordison for a forthcoming oral history of the UK festival

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The Independent UK

Download festivalgoer gatecrashes BBC Breakfast segment with chaotic outburst

Man was escorted away from the camera, can in hand

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Metallica at Download night one: metal's biggest band slay Donington after more than a decade away

The Four Horsemen dazzle Donington with a career-spanning, celebratory set

Wales Online

BBC Breakfast chaos as Download festival goer gatecrashes live broadcast

Reporter Hannah Miller was reporting live from the campsite - and had to cut back to the studio quickly

Nottingham Post

M1 Download Festival traffic misery as driver sat in 3-hour gridlock

The traffic was the worst the fan had seen in 10 years

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Coheed & Cambria to play 2007's No World for Tomorrow at two new UK dates

US prog rockers Coheed & Cambria add Glasgow and London shows in the wake of this weekend's Download appearance

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Disturbed: "Sometimes people cannot handle that a band they loved privately is shared with the world"

Disturbed frontman David Draiman on a divided America, fickle fans, and their plans for Download 2023

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Five Finger Death Punch pull out of Download

Ivan Moody’s recent hernia surgery means Five Finger Death Punch have cancelled all shows until June 12 – including their appearance at the Download Festival

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