News Download Festival reveal full 2025 day and stage splitsPlanners at the ready, people… Download Festival 2025’s day and stage splits are here!
News Who are PRESIDENT? Mysterious band added to Download line-up, but there’s no music out thereDownload revealed this week that an unknown band called PRESIDENT will be playing this year’s festival – and it’s at Donington Park that “the inauguration begins…”
News Rise Against, Shinedown, Opeth and more join Download Festival 2025 line-upDownload Festival have added 22 more artists to their 2025 line-up, including Rise Against, Shinedown, Opeth, Palaye Royale, Hatebreed and Kids In Glass Houses.
News PVRIS tease new version of My House with Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlanteThis week, PVRIS and Courtney LaPlante will drop a new version of My House – a song originally taken from the alt.pop star’s debut album White Noise.
News Here’s when the next Download Festival 2025 announcement is comingGet ready, Download Festival fans: the next line-up announcement is arriving in less than a week’s time!
Features Why Sleep Token are going to “win people over” when they headline Download Festival 2025Sleep Token are topping the bill at this year’s Download, off the back of an epic tour that included two nights at London’s 20,000-capacity The O2. It’s a bold move when any band is elevated to the top of the British rock mountain, but here, head honcho Andy Copping explains why the time is now for the Donington masses to gather and Worship…
Features The live shows that defined Slipknot, as told by Corey and ClownFrom unhinged performances in Des Moines’ smallest sweatboxes to the controlled chaos of their arena-conquering present day, the story of Slipknot is one that has been written on the stage. Corey Taylor and Clown look back on the defining shows of The Nine’s lives…
News Download tease “the next chapter” of Sleep Token at 2025 festivalWith this year’s Rituals all done and dusted, Download Festival are teasing that Sleep Token fans can “witness the next chapter” at Donington in 2025…
News Green Day, Sleep Token, Korn and over 90 more bands confirmed for Download Festival 2025It’s here! Download have revealed a huge portion of next year’s line-up, with three first-time headliners – Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn – plus the likes of Weezer, Sex Pistols, Bullet For My Valentine, Spiritbox, The Darkness, Loathe and even McFly…
News Download Festival confirm exact time and date of their first major 2025 announcementMark your calendars, people: Download are revealing the first wave of bands on next year’s line-up – including the headliners – on Tuesday evening…
News Here’s when the first big Download Festival 2025 band announcement will beGet ready: there’s less than one month until Download Festival reveal more than 60 bands for next year’s line-up…
News Are Download Festival teasing Green Day for 2025?It’s already been confirmed that Green Day will be in Europe next June… have Download just dropped an almighty hint that Billie Joe and co. will headline Donington?
Reviews What happened when Avenged Sevenfold headlined Download 2024Avenged Sevenfold melt minds – and the sound system – at their successfully strange Download headline hat-trick.
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2024Download Festival 2024 is go! As is the annual Kerrang! rolling review, featuring all the best, can’t-be-missed stuff from the home of metal this weekend…
Reviews What happened when Fall Out Boy headlined Download 2024Pop-punk classics! Pyro! Pete Wentz floating through the air with balloons! Fall Out Boy conquer Download with spectacularly thought-out journey down memory lane…
News Electric Callboy cancel tomorrow’s Download set: “Unfortunately Nico got sick”With singer Nico Sallach coming down with illness, Electric Callboy have had to pull out of this weekend’s Download Festival.
Features Fall Out Boy: “When we get onstage, we as a band are still earning it. That’s exciting!”As Fall Out Boy prepare for their headlining turn at Download Festival, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz lift the lid on their past year of mega-shows, why they’ve always managed to avoid falling into a nostalgia trap, and how after Donington they’ll be embracing “the challenge of figuring out what the next thing is…”
