Not content with a pretty ass-kicking roster so far, the UK’s Download Festival has announced 17 new acts overnight to give us their complete line-up, including the two remaining headliners on a couple of the smaller stages.
Leading the pack is American rockers Black Stone Cherry, who are going to close the Encore Stage on the Friday night, providing an alternative for those who don’t want to go see Slipknot tear it up on the main stage. Dragonforce will surely get a loud hometown reception when they bring their ridiculous solos and other technical metal madness to the Encore Stage earlier in the evening.
The other smaller stage headlining spot has been given to Norway black metallers Satyricon, who will close the Pepsi Max Stage on Sunday, the same night as Limp Bizkit and Rammstein tear it up elsewhere.
A handful of other UK hard rock acts were also added to the bill, including Idiom, Voodoo Six and Hammer Of The Gods.
Organisers have also announced that individual day tickets to the festival will go on sale this Thursday, 28th March at 9am local time (8pm AEDT). Prices haven’t been revealed, but given that 3-day passes to the festival (without camping) are £170, you’d probably expect something around the £60-70 mark.
You can find out who is playing on what day via the official poster – Saturday is definitely looking the tastiest to us. Having said that, local heroes Parkway Drive and Airbourne will be making their presence felt the following day, so that could be the ideal time to grab your Aussie flag and wave it around in there.
Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in the UK from 14th-16th June. The festival is headlined this year by Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein. More info is available at the festival’s official website.
Download Festival – Fifth Announcement:
Black Stone Cherry
Fidlar
Masters of Reality
Chthonic & The Oriental Orchestra
DragonForce
Ghost
Satyricon
Red White & Blues
Fearless Vampire Killers
Rival Sons
Palm Reader
Little Caesar
Previously Announced:
Slipknot
Iron Maiden
Rammstein
Bullet For My Valentine
Queens Of The Stone Age
Thirty Seconds To Mars
The Gaslight Anthem
Alice In Chains
Him
A Day To Remember
Volbeat
Coal Chamber
Stone Sour
Mastodon
Airbourne
Amon Amarth
Asking Alexandria
Black Dogs
Buffalo Summer
Cancer Bats
Converge
Down
Earthtone9
Enter Shikari
Five Finger Death Punch
Goldsboro
Hacktivist
Hardcore Superstar
Heaven’s Basement
Hellyeah
The Hives
Huntress
I Am I
In This Moment
Jimmy Eat World
Korn
Last Witness
Limp Bizkit
Motionless In White
Parkway Drive
The Sword
3 Doors Down
Ufo
Vision Of Disorder
Walking Papers
Young Guns
Papa Roach
Motorhead
Architects
After The Burial
The Algorithm
Astroid Boys
Blacklist Royals
Blitz Kids
Bleed From Within
Brutality Will Prevail
Buckcherry
Bury Tomorrow
Crowns
Dir En Grey
Escape The Fate
Emperor Chung
Empress
Europe
The First
The Ghost Inside
Glamour Of The Kill
Gogol Bordello
Graveyard
Hang The Bastard
Heart Of A Coward
Hill Valley High
I Divide
Karnivool
Katatonia
Lit
Modestep
Mordecai
Naked Flame
Nekrogoblikon
P.O.D.
Rat Attack
Red Fang
Rise To Remain
Sacred Mother Tongue
Skin
Silent Screams
Sonic Boom Six
States Of Panic
Turisas
Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats
Uriah Heep
Verses
Broken
Newsted
Cytota
