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Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn to headline Download Festival

Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn will headline the 2025 Download Festival, topping the bill for the first time.

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Watch this couple get engaged in the most romantic setting possible: covered in mud as Limp Bizkit play Break Stuff at Download Festival

Romance looks different to different people, and sometimes it looks like Fred Durst threatening to skin your ass raw in a mud swamp

Metal Hammer

Fire, flapping farm animals and gender reveals: Fall Out Boy get weird at Download Festival with their career-spanning, ridiculously fun headline set

Emo reigns supreme at Download Festival as Fall Out Boy travel the ages for their career-spanning Saturday set

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“Download Festival headliners in the making”: While She Sleeps put on yet another metalcore masterclass in Donington

At Download 2024, metalcore maestros While She Sleeps gave the UK’s biggest rock weekender a spectacle of rage, hooks and pyro

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“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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"Busted at Download! Wicked. Let's 'ave it!": Busted, Mr. Bungle, Enter Shikari, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Tom Morello and more join Download 2024 bill

Download festival announces 22 additional artists for June weekender, including pop-rock trio Busted

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"We need to keep bringing new bands through": we talk to a Download Festival booker about the future of metal and running the UK's biggest rock fest

Download Festival has been the biggest celebration of alternative music in the UK for over 20 years - but its ability to foster the next generation has never been more crucial

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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

The 20 greatest Download festival sets ever

For two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

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Man fined almost £1,500 for flying drone over airport to get festival pictures

Daniel Cesare flew the drone over East Midlands Airport in an attempt to get footage of Download Festival.

The Independent UK

Did Metallica correct Lars Ulrich’s 'One' drumming for the official audio of their performance at Download Festival?

The famous double bass drum part on Metallica's YouTube channel sounds quite different to fan-captured live footage

MusicRadar

Local council threatens to cancel Download Festival over "unprecedented" traffic chaos and 600 missed flights

"Something’s got to change for next year otherwise I’ll be pressing that the damn thing is cancelled" - Leicestershire County Council's Nick Rushton

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Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants launch charity auction with memorabilia from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Kiss and more

Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants kick off a huge auction in aid of kids charities, with items from some of the biggest name in metal up for grabs

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Download Festival organisers admit traffic problems were 'not acceptable' as investigation launched

Some motorists were stuck in traffic queues around the A453 for up to three hours

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Disabled rock fan left Download Festival after a day due to 'appalling' conditions

A woman had to leave the event after less than 24 hours because of the "extremely poor" conditions

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Camper dies at Download Festival 2023 as incident not being treated as suspicious

Very sad news to bring you

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Slipknot just proved they are the ultimate Download Festival headliner (yet again)

Nine masks. Eighteen songs. 100,000 metal fans: Slipknot just proved they are the ultimate Download Festival band.

The Guardian - UK

Download festival review – 20th birthday brings double Metallica, occult glam and a new breed

After travel chaos this proves to be an epic four-dayer, with an eclectic mix from Bring Me the Horizon to AA Williams plus Metallica spanning their career

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Nottingham Post

Download Festival organiser responds to claims this year's event is 'louder'

Its festival booker said it could instead be down to weather conditions

Daily Mirror

Residents 'can't sleep' as rock music blasting out 15 miles away makes walls RATTLE

People living in Derbyshire have complained about the noise coming from Download Festival this weekend, with some people saying that their walls were rattling due to loud rock music

Guitar World

Kirk Hammett remembers his last encounter with Dimebag Darrell: "I still regret not taking the time to have a full conversation with him"

The two last spoke backstage at the 2004 Download Festival, as Hammett frantically searched for a temporary replacement for an ill Lars Ulrich

Nottingham Post

Metallica's Download performance mistaken by residents 10 miles away in Stapleford as a 'party'

Residents have shared their thoughts on the noise, which was reportedly heard as far as Mapperley

Manchester Evening News

Residents call police as Download Festival noise rattles windows 15 miles

Around 100,000 heavy metal fans are heading to Download Festival, which began on Thursday

Nottingham Post

Download Festival's loud Metallica set captured from 11 miles away

One resident filmed the sounds from their home

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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