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Infobox music festival| music_festival_name = Download Festival| image =| location = Donington Park , Leicestershire , England| years_active= Since 2003| dates = Usually second weekend in June| genre = Rock music|Rock , Heavy metal music|heavy metal , Punk music|punk | promoter = Live Nation UK The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England (which hosted Monsters of Rock between 1980 and 1996, and 2002's Ozzfest ). It usually takes place in June (although in 2003, the first day of the festival took place on the last day of May). The festival is owned and managed by Live Nation .
History
The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the Monsters of Rock festivals which had been held in at the Donington Park circuit between 1980 and 1996. Rather than run as a single day event Download was initially a two day event, expanding to three days in 2005.
The name Download was chosen for the festival for two reasons. Downloading was a dirty word in the music industry at the time, due to file sharing, and rock is seen as a rebellious genre of music. The organizers faced pressure from the rest of the industry, with some even claiming that the Download Festival would "destroy the music industry". Citation needed|date=July 2010 Also Download was to be a Monsters Of Rock for the 21st century and the internet would provide connectivity with its audience.
The 2003 festival tickets had a code on them, which would allow festival goers to download tracks from bands which had played. Although this idea has been dropped in subsequent years, the festival organizers have nurtured an online community through the Download Festival Forums. Initially a sounding board for the fans (and critics) of the festival, the boards have become an integral part of the festival organization with regular contributions from Festival Director John Probyn and Promoter Andy Copping. The forums also provide face to face feedback through the Fan Forum meetings (started in 2006) and organise the Boardie BBQ (2006 on) and the Boardie Takeover night (2009), football tournaments and a pub quiz for the R.I.P. campers who arrive on a Wednesday night.
When Download began, it took place on the Donington Park circuit infield as had Monsters Of Rock. However in 2008 developments for Formula One meant that the infield was no longer suitable as a festival site. 2008 saw a move to the "Sunday Markets" site to the west of the circuit. Although adequate, numbers were limited and the location of the campsite meant that getting from tents to the arena was quite a hike. 2009 saw the festival move to a much more suitable location to the south of the circuit. Security for the festival has constantly been undertaken by professional crowd management specialists Showsec , although the campsite area has had various contractors throughout.
Since 2009 there has been on-site radio broadcasting from 96.3 Rock Radio|Rock Radio on 87.7FM. This Restricted Service Licence|RSL broadcast has aired music from festival bands, interviews and news to the festival site and the surrounding area, with the signal reaching as far as Nottingham .
The Download Dog
The Download Dog is the official mascot of the Download Festival, http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/home/index.aspx Download Festival Homepage and appears on a wide range of material related to the festival, such as tickets, stage banners and merchandise.
Each year, the dog is changed to a different colour:
2006: Red http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/gallery/images/fri_horz/D_Fest_fri_003.jpg External Image from Download Festival GalleryDead link|date=January 2012
2007: Green http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=viewImage& friendID=13608811& albumID=0& imageID=4750167 External Image
The first Download Festival was held on 31 May – 1 June 2003. The headliners were originally Iron Maiden and Limp Bizkit , although Limp Bizkit pulled out and were replaced by Audioslave . Metallica attempted to step in as headliners, but were unable to due to already being headliners at that year's Reading and Leeds Festivals . Instead, they played an unannounced "secret slot" in the afternoon on the second stage, with no sound check and after playing an exclusive club show in London the night before. Chevelle (band)|Chevelle were scheduled to play the Scuzz stage on Sunday, but pulled out at the last minute. Instruction , playing their second set of the festival, stepped in as replacements.
Saturday May 31
Main Stage
Scuzz Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 A (band)|A Reel Big Fish Taproot (band)|Taproot Sepultura Reef (band)|Reef HIM (Finnish band)|HIM Soil (band)|Soil The Hellacopters SikTh 3 Colours Red From Autumn to Ashes QueenAdreena Violent Delight Stiff Cookie Arch Enemy (band)|Arch Enemy Chimaira
Sunday June 1
Main Stage
Scuzz Stage
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Download 2004
The 2004 edition of the festival was held on the 5–6 June. Another stage was added to the festival, bringing the total to three. Seventy-two bands played over the two days. The 2004 event was also noticeable for several last minute hitches. First, Soil got lost on the way to Donington and missed their main stage appearance on Saturday (they later joined Drowning Pool on stage to perform Drowning Pool's "Bodies" and their own song "Halo"). Static-X missed their slot due to a bus breakdown. On Sunday, Slayer arrived on time, but their equipment did not, leading to a slot change from the middle of the afternoon on the main stage to a later slot (and longer set) on the second stage. Slayer were replaced on the main stage by Damageplan , who were scheduled to play the second stage. Their setlist ended with a rendition of Damageplan founders Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell 's most recognisable song from Pantera , "Walk."
The biggest news came from the headliners Metallica, when Lars Ulrich was rushed to hospital.cite web |url= http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/metallicas%20ulrich%20breakdown%20on%20plane |title=Metallica's Ulrich breakdown on plane |date=2005-02-24 |accessdate=2007-03-18 |work=contactmusic.com Taking to the stage an hour and a half late, James Hetfield explained the situation with Ulrich and the show then began with Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo playing on "Battery" and "The Four Horsemen." Slipknot (band)|Slipknot 's Joey Jordison played the rest of the set apart from Fade to Black (song)|Fade to Black which was played by Metallica's drum technician, Flemming Larsen.
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Sunday June 6
Main Stage
Snickers "Game On" Stage
Barfly Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 HIM (band)|HIM Bowling for Soup Taking Back Sunday Slayer Life of Agony Brides of Destruction Drowning Pool Hatebreed Hoobastank Trapt Silvertide Ricky Warwick Terra Diablo
In June 2004 a two day Download Festival was held on Glasgow Green , several days before the Donington event. This had a limited line up with only nine bands performing over a two day period. The bands which did play included the headliners, Metallica and Linkin Park. Download Scotland also saw an appearance from the Welsh rock band Lostprophets who did not perform at Donington.
Acts which also appeared over the two days at Download Scotland were Korn, Slipknot, Iggy Pop|Iggy and The Stooges , Machine Head, The Distillers and HIM.
The running order went as follows:
Wednesday June 2
Thursday June 3
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 Linkin Park Lostprophets The Stooges|Iggy and The Stooges The Distillers Machine Head (band)|Machine Head
Download 2005
Download 2005 was held again at Donington Park, on 10–12 June 2005. This festival was different from previous years as the Saturday was officially dubbed Ozzfest#Ozzfest Download|Ozzfest 2005 , as well as an " Independent music|Indie day" on the first day of the festival.
Billy Idol performed on the Snickers stage on the Friday night, his first UK gig after a lengthy hiatus, performing songs such as White Wedding (song)|White Wedding , Rebel Yell (song)|Rebel Yell and a cover version of Van Halen 's anthem, Jump (Van Halen song)|Jump .
Feeder 's frontman Grant Nicholas was so relieved the band won the crowd over (there were concerns that they would be received badly by the traditional attendee to the festival), he decided to smash his green Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender Jazzmaster guitar after "Descend" was performed. He later said that he regretted it, but also said he kept the neck and the tremeloes, and might use what was left to make a new guitar. In a July 2010 interview with Kerrang! , it was suggested to Nicholas that destroyed the guitar as he was frustrated at trying to win the crowd over, as their music was different to the Download demographic, but claimed himself in reply to this that he "Wanted to do the most rock and roll thing after eventually winning over the crowd". In the same interview, Nicholas said that they were " Human subject research|Guineapigs " at the festival as part of the organisers experiment to make it an alternative festival, but said it was a moment of the band's career he is still proud of.citation needed|date=December 2010 Five years later after they played fifth on the main stage at Download 2005.
Lemmy also took to the stage, with former MC5 members, and Gilby Clarke , to perform Back in the USA .
Initially, Bert McCracken of The Used and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance were asked to perform their cover of Under Pressure by Queen (band)|Queen and David Bowie , but the former friends refused the offer to perform the cover as they had recently fallen out.Citation needed|date=April 2009 The official line-up included:
Friday June 10 cite web
Main Stage
Snickers Stage
Napster Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 Billy Idol The Used My Chemical Romance InMe The Bled Apocalyptica Underoath|Underøath Lordi Fozzy Flogging Molly
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Napalm Death Raging Speedhorn Paradise Lost (band)|Paradise Lost A Change of Pace Roadstar|Hurricane Party Tokyo Dragons Colour of Fire Slunt Just a Word Crashdiet Planet of Women
Saturday June 11
Main Stage
Snickers Stage
Napster Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 In Flames Chimaira Lamb of God (band)|Lamb of God Bullet for My Valentine Meshuggah Unearth Every Time I Die Open Hand American Head Charge The Hurt Process
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Helmet (band)|Helmet The Lucky Nine Breed 77 The Explosion Towers of London Johnny Truant The Ga Ga's The Answer (band)|The Answer Panic Cell Crucified Barbara Diamond Nights Don't Quit Your Day Job City on Fire S.A. Sanctaury
Sunday June 12
Main Stage
Snickers Stage
Napster Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 System of a Down Slipknot (band)|Slipknot Slayer Nightwish Killswitch Engage Papa Roach Mudvayne Society 1 DV8
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Motörhead DKT/MC5 Funeral for a Friendcite web | url= http://2005.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/newsitem.asp? id=166 | title=Explosive Finish to Download on Sunday | date=2005-06-12 | work=Download Festival website | accessdate=2007-02-13 Lacuna Coil Mastodon (band)|Mastodon Shadows Fall Helmet (band)|Helmet Caliban (band)|Caliban As I Lay Dying (band)|As I Lay Dying Gizmachi Send More Paramedics The Mascara Story
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Download 2006
The 2006 Download Festival was held at Donington Park, England on 9–11 June. The three days comprising the headlining acts ( Tool (band)|Tool , Metallica and Guns N' Roses ) have sales of approximately 200–250 million albums between them, more than the entire line up of 2006's V Festival .
2006 was the first time the festival was mirrored in the Republic of Ireland, as Download Festival Ireland . 2006 was also by far the warmest year download has ever hadcitation needed|date=April 2012.
During the festival Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis was rushed to hospital.cite web | url= http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1534074/20060612/korn.jhtml | title=Korn's Jonathan Davis Hospitalized With Blood Ailment; Tour Canceled | author=Chris Harris | date=2006-06-12 | work=MTV News | accessdate=2007-01-27 Similar to 2004's Metallica set, Munky , Fieldy and David Silveria arrived and explained to the fans why Davis could not make it and played with guest vocalists Corey Taylor from Slipknot, Dez Fafara from DevilDriver , Jesse Hasek from 10 Years (band)|10 Years , Benji Webbe from Skindred , M. Shadows from Avenged Sevenfold , and Matt Heafy from Trivium. Lyrics from the song "Blind" were displayed on the screen for Matt Heafy. Metallica played the album Master of Puppets in its entirety in honour of its twentieth anniversary. Guns N' Roses also performed material from the long forthcoming Chinese Democracy album.
Main Stage The main stage was situated in the centre of the arena with crowd control moving around it, and was the largest of all three stages, the safety barriers used at this stage were in a T shape so as to avoid crowd crush in the middle. The stage was open-air and named in honour of the 25th anniversary of Kerrang! magazine. Down (band)|Down played an unannounced set on Saturday (With the laminates showing ? ? ? in their time slot); opening up the Main Stage.cite web | url= http://www.virtualfestivals.com/festivals/article.cfm? articleid=2716 | title=Download 2006 Blog – Saturday | author=Steve Jenner | date=2006-06-10 | work=Virtual Festivals | accessdate=2007-02-13
Snickers Stage The Snickers Stage was situated in a tent, behind the main stage and was the second largest stage at the festival. Access to the stage was via a one-way system which attempted to spread people around the site, rather than all attempting to push through a rather small space.
Soilwork were scheduled to play on Sunday, but were replaced by DevilDriver (playing their second set of the festival).cite web | url= http://www.virtualfestivals.com/festivals/article.cfm? articleid=2720 | title=Download 2006 Blog – Sunday | author=Steve Jenner | date=2006-06-11 | work=Virtual Festivals | accessdate=2007-02-13
Gibson/Myspace Stage The Myspace stage was the smallest of the three and under a smaller tent. It was positioned across from the front of the main stage.
Friday June 9 cite web
Main Stage
Snickers Stage
Gibson/ Myspace Stage
Snickers Bowl Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 The All-American Rejects Atreyu (band)|Atreyu InMe Clutch (band)|Clutch Fishbone Dredg Bleeding Through Gojira Throwdown (band)|Throwdown Suns of the Tundra
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Ginger & The Sonic Circus Backyard Babies Cathedral (band)|Cathedral Engerica Bullets and Octane|Bullets & Octane My Awesome Compilation Animal Alpha theAUDITION|The Audition Art of Dying (band)|Art of Dying Enter Shikari Kitty Hudson
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Saturday June 10
Main Stage
Snickers Stage
Gibson/ Myspace Stage
Snickers Bowl Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Metallica Korn Trivium (band)|Trivium Avenged Sevenfold Stone Sour Alice in Chains Arch Enemy Bloodsimple Satyricon (band)|Satyricon Down (band)|Down
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Alter Bridge Opeth Within Temptation Secret Machines Billy Talent Henry Rollins DevilDriver SikTh Johnny Truant Khoma
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Killing Joke Reuben (band)|Reuben Mondo Generator Louie This Is Menace 10 Years Flyleaf Manic It Dies Today Living Things (band)|Living Things Exit Ten Colon Open Bracket Stonegard My Alamo
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly getAmped The Hedrons
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Sick of it All Lordi Skindred Moneen Darkest Hour (band)|Darkest Hour Blindside (band)|Blindside Mendeed Bring Me the Horizon The Zico Chain Voodoo Six Lauren Harris Winterville (band)|Winterville Streetlight Youth I-Def-I
During the Sunday headline set of Guns N' Roses, one or more bottles landed on the stage. This caused problems after the band's lead singer, Axl Rose , slipped on the wet surface and a bottle hit bassist Tommy Stinson . Stinson threw his bass, accidentally hitting one of the cameramen, and left the stage. He returned after the song and apologized, but warned the crowd that if this activity continued, he would leave for good. There were some disturbances but they eventually died down, and later in the set Rose commented "I'm actually having quite a good time now& #33; I couldn't have said that an hour ago!"cite web | url= http://www.virtual-festivals.com/festivals/article.cfm? articleid=2723 | title=Axl Rose trips up at Download | work=Virtual Festivals | date=2006-06-12 | accessdate=2007-01-27
On the final night, fires were started by some festival goers and police were called, arresting twelve people.cite web | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/5070798.stm | title=Twelve held after rock festival | work=BBC News | date=2006-06-12 | accessdate=2007-01-27 At around 4am, the fire brigade arrived to put out a large fire at the gold campsite. A number of people had taken the railings that had been used to separate the campsite area from the path and used them to barricade the road to prevent the fire engines from reaching the main fire. At this point a number of police assembled in riot gear, and proceeded to stop the troublemakers. The festival director, Stuart Galbraith, posted a message on the official website stating that "About 150 people spoiled the end of what had been a great weekend for over 75,000 of us." cite web | url= http://2006.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/newsitem.asp? id=296 | title=Message from Stuart Galbraith, Festival Director | author=Stuart Galbraith | date=2006-06-13 | accessdate=2007-01-27
Download 2007
The 2007 Download Festival took place on 8–10 June 2007.cite web | url= http://2007.downloadfestival.co.uk/home/index.aspx | title=DOWNLOAD 2007 | accessdate=2007-01-27
The three bands that headlined the 2007 festival were My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and Iron Maiden.
Through February, March and the beginning of April, more bands were announced in small groups of five or six,cite web | url= http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/ | title=Download Festival News | work=Download Festival official website | accessdate=2007-04-24 and on 17 April this lineup was arranged into days and stages on the official website.cite web | url= http://2007.downloadfestival.co.uk/lineup/| title=Download Festival 2007 Lineup | accessdate=2008-03-01 A further announcement of fifteen bands on 24 April added to this lineup, and announced the names of the second and third stages – The Dimebag Darrell Stage, and The Tuborg Stage.cite web | url= http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/tm.aspx? m=1572979| title=Announcement 24 April | work=Download Festival forums | accessdate=2007-04-24
Korn's Jonathan Davis stated that the reason for the band returning this year was because of his absence due to illness last year. He stated on the official Download Festival website, "I am so looking forward to coming to the Download Festival this year. I was heartbroken to pull out last time. So this time I am very happy to be coming back and we promise to rock the place& #33; I will definitely make-up for missing the last one. You can expect an amazing Korn show!"cite web | url= http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/ | title=Six New Bands Added With Just 100 Days To Go | accessdate=2007-02-28
Download 2007 was Dimmu Borgir 's first ever festival appearance in England. Hardcore Superstar pulled out of their slot on the Tuborg stage on the Sunday because their tour bus broke down in Germany. Download 2007 featured an Indian band Parikrama (band)|Parikrama . They became the first band from India as well as Asia to make it to Donington.
Download 2007 also featured the first band to officially perform on the Thursday of the festival. Scumface played on the Tuborg Stage during the boardie barbecue.cite web | url= http://downloadfestival.co.uk/news/story.aspx? AID=1681f318-d8df-4744-bb2c-6616bde56f12 | title=Download 2007 boardie barbecue pictures | accessdate=2007-12-01 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071114071717/ http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/story.aspx? AID=1681f318-d8df-4744-bb2c-6616bde56f12 |archivedate = 2007-11-14
Lamb Of God's DVD Walk With Me In Hell (DVD)|Walk With Me In Hell features the band's full performance at the festival.cite web | url= http://www.lamb-of-god.com/sacrament/news/ | title=Lamb Of God official site | accessdate=2008-06-11 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080603120817/ http://www.lamb-of-god.com/sacrament/news/ |archivedate = 2008-06-03
Friday June 8
Main Stage
Dimebag Darrell Stage
Tuborg Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 Korn Enter Shikari Paramore Porcupine Tree Saosin From Autumn to Ashes Turbonegro Ill Niño ANJ
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Suicidal Tendencies Hayseed Dixie Yourcodenameis:Milo Job for a Cowboy The Hedrons Sanctity (band)|Sanctity I Was a Cub Scout The Scare This Et Al Fortune Drive Drive-by Argument
Saturday June 9
Main Stage
Dimebag Darrell Stage
Tuborg Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Linkin Park Marilyn Manson Slayer Machine Head (band)|Machine Head Bowling for Soup 30 Seconds to Mars Aiden Shadows Fall Hellyeah Turisas
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Head Automatica Necro (rapper)|Necro The Answer (band)|The Answer Silverstein (band)|Silverstein Lez Zeppelin Architects (British band)|Architects Priestess (band)|Priestess Panic Cell Beyond All Reason My Alamo Damone (band)|Damone Army of Freshmen Malpractice
Sunday June 10
Main Stage
Dimebag Darrell Stage
Tuborg Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Iron Maiden Evanescence Killswitch Engage Stone Sour Lamb of God (band)|Lamb of God Mastodon (band)|Mastodon Papa Roach Chimaira Reuben Parikrama
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Billy Talent Dream Theater Dimmu Borgir Within Temptation Napalm Death Paradise Lost (band)|Paradise Lost Orange Goblin DevilDriver Unearth Cancer Bats After Forever Eyelash
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Reel Big Fish Fastway (band)|Fastway Cult of Luna Lauren Harris Fair to Midland Kids in Glass Houses Between the Trees Flood of Red Hardcore Superstar Lights. Action! Still Remains In This Moment The Ghost of a Thousand LostAlone
Download 2008
The 2008 Download festival took place on 13–15 June. The 2008 festival had a significantly different layout to that of the previous years in that the festival arena area was situated in land to the west of the race track instead of the traditional venue of the race track infield area. Notable amongst numerous changes is that the Tuborg stage became larger and moved from a marquee to an open-air format, located on a tarmac car park.Download 2008 Map | http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/_Resources/img/pix_dlmap.jpg Chris Cornell was originally scheduled to play the festival, but he cancelled his European tour so he could focus on a new album. Twin Method , and Finger Eleven were announced to play but were removed from the official websites lineup. On the Friday of the festival, Kid Rock was meant to appear between Seether and Disturbed on the Main Stage but pulled out at the last minute, much to the pleasure of the festival crowd. At first it was announced that this was due to illness.cite web | url= http://www.nme.com/news/kid-rock/37326 | title=Kid Rock rushed to hospital at Download festival | accessdate=2011-02-16 Rock later claimed he left the festival grounds after becoming dissatisfied with the amenities.cite web | url= http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/kid%20rock%20festival%20bosses%20lied%20about%20real%20reason%20for%20scrapped%20show_1078539 | title=Festival bosses lied about real reason for scrapped show | accessdate=2008-08-27 But, the following year, Download's booker theorized that it had been due to a broken heart.cite web | url= http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Exclusive-truth-Kid-Rock-Download/article-694895-detail/article.html | title=Exclusive: The truth about Kid Rock and Download | accessdate=2011-02-16 Rock's no-show allowed the two bands following him on the bill, Disturbed and Judas Priest , to have longer sets.
The 2008 Boardie BBQ took place on the Gibson stage on Thursday 12 June and included a performance by http://myspace.com/forevernever Forever Never.cite web | url= http://2008.downloadfestival.co.uk/dogs-blogs/story.aspx? aid=de5fe827-1887-46c6-b53b-a66d99b10c42 | title= Dogs Blog from the 2008 Boardie BBQ
Friday June 13
Main Stage
Tuborg Stage
Gibson Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 The Dillinger Escape Plan Kill Hannah Slaves to Gravity High on Fire In Case of Fire Blackhole (band)|Blackhole Hostile Firewind Caimbo Rolo Tomassi Lovvers
Saturday June 14
Main Stage
Tuborg Stage
Gibson Stage
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valign="top" align="center" width=200 Testament (band)|Testament Saxon (band)|Saxon Johnny Truant Fighting With Wire Brigade (UK band)|Brigade Army of Freshmen The Haze Big Linda The Last Supper Trigger the Bloodshed Mexicolas Go:Audio Rise to Remain Verra Cruz
Sunday June 15
Main Stage
Tuborg Stage
Gibson Stage
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Download 2009
The 2009 Download Festival took place on 12–14 June at Donington Park with an estimated attendance of 120,000 over 3 days. The arena had once again changed location, this time to an open field area south of the race track which was more suitable and less of a walk than last year.
The headliners were Faith No More (Friday), Slipknot (Saturday) and Def Leppard (Sunday). http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/lineup/index.aspx here A notable feature was that Sunday had a strong classic rock theme on the main stage which attracted many Monsters of Rock festival goers. Other notable performers included Limp Bizkit, who were playing in the UK with their original line-up for the first time since 2001, Trivium returning for their third appearance and first head lining spot, Anvil (band)|Anvil , the band featured in the 2008 film Anvil& #33; The Story of Anvil , and Steel Panther , who were making their first appearance in the UK on the Tuborg Stage. A fourth stage, the " Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage", also made an appearance at this year's festival. This stage was also present at other UK festivals, such as T in the Park in Balado , Scotland, and the Underage Festival in Victoria Park, East London|Victoria Park , London.
The 2009 Boardie BBQ took place in the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Thursday 11 June. This year the band was Attica Rage .
The Thursday night of the 2009 festival also saw the http://2009.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article.aspx_AID=0ec279ee-3eef-48d3-893d-cf934d9c8640.html Boardie Takeover night. Four bands, three DJ's: http://www.myspace.com/cysterscalpel Cyst, Dave KC and Gabber Fox, two singers, a stand-up and a burlesque dancer – all members of the http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk|Download Festival Forums – performed to a full house in the End Tent. These bands were Scumface (returning after a successful appearance at the Boardie BBQ in 2007), Orestea, Echovirus and headliners, Silent Descent .cite web | url= http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/thevillage/item.aspx? id=2863& cid=0|title=Boardie Takeover in the Village
On Monday 18 May the festival confirmed on its official website that Camping tickets had completely sold out. http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article.aspx? AID=c0f72d47-d01d-4b56-9a0f-bc22f81f9ec3
On 19 May, it was revealed in an interview with Andy Copping on Music Channel Scuzz that there would be secret sets. It was later revealed the bands would be Enter Shikari and Thunder (band)|Thunder . http://www.scuzz.com/News/ArticleDetail.aspx? id=2603& agnews=2& fnews=2& reviews=2
On Wednesday 3 June, one week before the campsite opened, Download released a further 2,500 camping tickets. These limited tickets sold out within 24 hours of being released.
The winners of the "Red Bull Bedroom Jam Competition" was Gravesend, Kent|Gravesend -based band http://myspace.com/aftertheordeal After the Ordeal. This set was a 'virtual gig', with the band playing live from their bedroom and this footage being streamed live onto the Main Stage at Download Festival, between Pendulum and Marilyn Manson.
The winners of the " Tuborg Battle of the bands" was Leeds Punk rock|punk band Acid Drop and they opened the Tuborg stage on Saturday 13 June.
The Ghost of a Thousand were scheduled to headline the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Saturday but the band cancelled. The Blackout (band)|The Blackout stepped in to play their slot, thus giving them two slots on the festival's bill.
Slipknot's performance is available in their new DVD (sic)nesses . It was released on 28 September 2010 and served as a tribute to their late bassist Paul Gray (American musician)|Paul Gray . It was also Slipknot's last performance in the UK before his death.
Friday June 14
Main Stage
Second Stage
Tuborg Stage
Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Faith No More Korn Limp Bizkit Killswitch Engage Billy Talent Staind The Blackout Hollywood Undead
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Mötley Crüe Opeth Lacuna Coil Bring Me the Horizon Dir En Grey Parkway Drive A Day to Remember In This Moment Steadlür
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Meshuggah Loaded (band)|Duff McKagan's Loaded Backyard Babies Voivod (band)|Voivod Enter Shikari Middle Class Rut Lauren Harris Sylosis http://myspace.com/bleedfromwithin Bleed from Within Hunting the Minotaur Sleepercurve
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Blackhole (band)|Blackhole New Device DissolvedIn Linchpin Don Broco The Outcry Collective White Man Kamikaze Young Guns (band)|Young Guns Tripswitch The Instigators
Saturday June 15
Main Stage
Second Stage
Tuborg Stage
Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Slipknot (band)|Slipknot Marilyn Manson Pendulum (band)|Pendulum DragonForce Down (band)|Down Hatebreed DevilDriver Five Finger Death Punch Ripper Owens
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Anvil (band)|Anvil Architects Thunder (band)|Thunder Lawnmower Deth Man Raze General Fiasco Billy Boy On Poison Loverman S.A. Sanctuary Facecage Black Spiders No Americana Acid Drop
valign="top" align="center" width=200 The Blackout This City People In Planes My Passion The Auteur None the Less 13 Riots Forever Never Serpico The Computers Japanese Voyeurs Auger Bane
Sunday June 16
Main Stage
Second Stage
Tuborg Stage
Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Def Leppard Whitesnake ZZ Top Dream Theater Journey (band)|Journey Black Stone Cherry Skin (UK band)|Skin Tesla (band)|Tesla Stone Gods
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Trivium (band)|Trvium Papa Roach Buckcherry Clutch (band)|Clutch Shinedown Volbeat Karma to Burn Sevendust God Forbid Suicide Silence Trigger the Bloodshed Sacred Mother Tongue
valign="top" align="center" width=200 We Are the Ocean Flood of Red Exit Avenue First Strike Twin Atlantic Attack& #33; Attack& #33; Logan (band)|Logan Fei Comodo Jett Black Million $ Reload Raucous Jays Fall from Grace
Download 2010
The Download Festival was confirmed to return to Donington on the weekend 11–13 June 2010, the campsites opening on 9 June. On 25 January, nine bands were announced at the official Download website, including AC/DC as one of the main stage headliners. http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/home/index.aspx? ReturnUrl=/index.aspx%3fc%3dtwit-Download-250110& c=twit-Download-250110 On 15 February Rage Against the Machine and Aerosmith were confirmed as the other two main stage headliners, as well as 5 more bands confirmed a few hours later. http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article.aspx? aid=ce56f7b0-369f-40c9-b77c-bd617aae0ed3
22 bands were added on 22 March. http://twitter.com/Maverick_AC/status/10779746723 This announcement confirmed that Bullet for My Valentine, 30 Seconds to Mars and Stone Sour would be the second stage headliners. Stage splits were also confirmed. http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/lineup/ It was later announced that Billy Idol had cancelled their appearance due to unforeseen problems with their management, and would be replaced by Napalm Death.
Saxon performed their ' Wheels of Steel ' album in its entirety to commemorate its 30th anniversary. http://www.twitter.com/Maverick_AC Andy Copping's Twitter page Download 2010 was also the 30th anniversary of rock festivals at Donington Park, since the first one – which Saxon performed at – in 1980.
It was announced on 16 May that the second stage would be renamed "The Ronnie James Dio Stage" in tribute to the singer and bassist who died of stomach cancer on the same day.Cite web|url= http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article.aspx? aid=a486238d-a9a8-48ea-b09b-68cede696090|title=2ND STAGE AT DOWNLOAD TO BE RENAMED THE RONNIE JAMES DIO STAGE It was also announced that the main stage would be called The Maurice Jones Stage after the co-founder of Monsters of Rock who also died the previous year.
28 May saw 15 more bands added, as well as the official announcement of the Jägermeister -sponsored fifth stage, which would host acoustic acts including bands already performing usual sets at the festival. http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article.aspx? aid=3ab01a77-c6f9-4c33-b5fc-d00ae69b4b6e Download News Sum 41, who were initially announced, then cancelled their appearance due to drummer Steve Jocz being involved in an accident. http://sum41.com/blog_d.aspx? nid=6992 Sum 41 official statement On 30 May 2010 it was announced that Wolfmother had to cancel their set due to illness and they were replaced by Killswitch Engage. http://downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article.aspx? aid=1ee9acdc-5f6b-415e-9725-7abd2c6601dc
Ratt were scheduled to play on Sunday, but cancelled due to illness of lead vocalist Stephen Pearcy. On 9 June, FM (British band)|FM were announced as Ratt's replacement.
The http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/2010/reviews/article.aspx? aid=649914e5-1fa7-4ac0-b334-88fae8adace9 Boardie Takeover ran for the second year in a row on Thursday 10 June. It featured the bands Silent Descent, http://www.myspace.com/fallenfate1 Fallen Fate, http://myspace.com/jacknifeholiday Jacknife Holiday and http://www.facebook.com/cysterscalpel Cyster Scalpel, as well as singers, DJs and a burlesque dancer.
AC/DC played their set on an exclusive stage positioned next to the Maurice Jones stage, allowing the band to bring their full stadium show to the festival. As announced on 28 May. This marked the first time a headlining band had brought their own stage to Donington. All of the other headlining bands on the other stages had finished their sets before AC/DC began their performance. The AC/DC stage was used only for the actual band, the runway at the front was taken down the next day and the stage remained empty and unused for the rest of the festival once their headlining set was over.
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Bullet for My Valentine Coheed and Cambria A Day to Remember Anathema (band)|Anathema Trigger the Bloodshed
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Job for a Cowboy As I Lay Dying Tyketto Lawnmower Deth Sweethead Year Long Disaster
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Devil Sold His Soul Funeral Party Heights Never Means Maybe Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders Imicus The Humour
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Rage Against the Machine Deftones Megadeth Lamb of God (band)|Lamb of God Five Finger Death Punch Atreyu (band)|Atreyu Flyleaf Hellyeah Taking Dawn
valign="top" align="center" width=200 30 Seconds to Mars HIM (band)|HIM The Blackout Volbeat We Are the Fallen Cancer Bats My Passion Rolo Tomassi Sonic Syndicate Rise to Remain
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Michael Monroe Skin (British band)|Skin Y& T Senser Enuff Z'nuff Halestorm Rock Sugar (band)|Rock Sugar Genitorturers Reckless Love Sybreed Holy Grail (song)|Holy Grail Killing for Company Godsized
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Breed 77 Glamour of the Kill Kadawatha This Is Divine Stand Up Guy No Mean City The Dead Lay Waiting The Plight Urban Voodoo Machine Revoker
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Reckless Love Panic Cell The Humour The More I See Dommin Everything Burns The Blackout
Sunday June 13
AC/ DC Stage
Maurice Jones Stage
Ronnie James Dio Stage
Pepsi Max Stage
Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=100
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Aerosmith Stone Temple Pilots Motörhead Billy Idol Slash (musician)|Slash Cinderella (band)|Cinderella Saxon (band)|Saxin FM Dommin
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Stone Sour Airbourne (band)|Airbourne Steel Panther Porcupine Tree The Dillinger Escape Plan Damned Things|The Damned Things Napalm Death Switchfoot August Burns Red Nonpoint 3 Inches of Blood White Wizzard
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Suicidal Tendencies Zebrahead Young Guns (band)|Young Guns Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Whitechapel (band)|Whitechapel Jim Jones Revue Esoterica Your Demise Crime in Stereo TAB the Band The Morning After S.A. Sanctuary No Americana Ben Poole
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Panic Cell Max Raptor T-34 Hearts Under Fire You And What Army Sacred Betrayal Enemo-J The Virgin Marys Straightlines Tiger Please
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Ginger (musician)|Ginger Nonpoint Enuff Z'nuff DJ Clash (Scott Rowley and Alexander Milas) The Dirty Feel Ricky Warwick Taking Dawn
Download 2011
The Download Festival was confirmed to return to Donington on the 10, 11, and 12 June 2011. Linkin Park and System of a Down were the two main stage headliners officially announced, with Saturday subheadliners Avenged Sevenfold and Sunday second stage headliner Rob Zombie announced a short while later. On 24 January, Korn, Pendulum, Bullet for My Valentine, Alice Cooper , Alter Bridge, Danzig (band)|Danzig , The Cult (band)|The Cult , The Gaslight Anthem , Hollywood Undead, Thin Lizzy , Buckcherry, Black Veil Brides , The Damned Things , Escape the Fate, Clutch, Mr. Big (band)|Mr. Big , Gwar , FM, Masters of Reality and Rise to Remain were also announced to be performing at the festival.
On 22 February, Def Leppard were announced as Friday's main stage headliner,cite web | url= http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=154360 | title=DEF LEPPARD: Live Album Title Revealed; DOWNLOAD Festival Appearance Announced | accessdate=23 February 2011 | date=22 February 2011 | publisher=Blabbermouth.net | archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/5whSJKzYk | archivedate=22 February 2011 with Twisted Sister , Down, Duff McKagan's Loaded and Trash Talk (band)|Trash Talk also added to the line-up. The following day more bands were added to the line-up: Turisas, All That Remains (band)|All That Remains , Sacred Mother Tongue, Bowling for Soup, The Devil Wears Prada , Bring Me the Horizon, Frank Turner , Cheap Trick , Asking Alexandria , Straight Line Stitch , Disturbed, Black Stone Cherry, The King Blues , Madina Lake, Jameson Raid (band)|Jameson Raid and Ghost (Swedish band)|Ghost . The Pretty Reckless , Puddle of Mudd , VersaEmerge , Evile , Your Demise, Times of Grace and Suicide Silence were announced on 2 March.
15 March saw The Darkness unveiled as the widely-speculated Friday subheadliner, with Funeral for a Friend, Plain White T's , Framing Hanley and http://myspace.com/hyrodahero2 Hyro Da Hero also added. In April, the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage and Jägermeister Acoustic stage's acts were revealed.
Wayne Static was scheduled to open up the main stage on the Sunday, but he pulled out a month prior. Masters of Reality were scheduled to perform but pulled out on the 30 March. Karma to Burn were to play the second stage on Sunday but were replaced by Hyro Da Hero, thus giving him three sets over the course of the festival; the most in Download history.
Steward 836 was manning the main stage at the festival, when he caught the attention of fans waiting for Sunday's bands to appear. Some friendly interaction led to cheers from the audience, then one of the giant stage-screens showed him making the " Devil horns#Heavy metal subculture|devil horns " gesture, which was applauded by tens of thousands of rock fans. The official Download Festival website even featured him as an artist on their http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/2011/lineup/artist/836 site. http://www.metro.co.uk/music/866410-steward-at-download-festival-2011-becomes-facebook-star http://www.eventindustrynews.co.uk/2011/06/steward-836-strikes-a-chord-at-download.html http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/2011/lineup/artist/836
Friday June 10
Main Stage
Second Stage
Pepsi Max Stage
Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Def Leppard The Darkness Alter Bridge Thin Lizzy Black Stone Cherry Loaded (band)|Duff McKagan's Loaded Puddle of Mudd CKY (band)|CKY
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Pendulum (band)|Pendulum Korn Bring Me the Horizon Children of Bodom The Damned Things Anti-Flag Young Guns (band)|Young Guns Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Evaline
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Danzig Times of Grace FM Hyro Da Hero Asking Alexandria Lower Than Atlantis Japanese Voyeurs Royal Republic Betraeus Sweet Savage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Modestep Envy of the State OAF Don Broco Page 44 Hill Valley High MakethisRelate Kellermensch
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Skindred The Last Republic The Dirty Youth Million $ Reload Obsessive Compulsive Verses
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Alice Cooper Twisted Sister Cheap Trick Mr. Big Dio_(band)#DIO_Disciples|Dio Disciples Clutch Dan Reed Rock Sugar (band)|Rock Sugar The BossHoss Rise to Remain Chthonic (band)|Chthonic Sacred Mother Tongue
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Funeral for a Friend The King Blues Sevendust Evile Trash Talk Your Demise Letlive VersaEmerge Ghost (Swedish band)|Ghost Straight Line Stitch TRC Houston The Rods
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Dangerous! Kill 21 The Dangerous Summer (band)|The Dangerous Summer Dear Superstar Heights Blitz Kids Welcome Wednesday The Morning After Dripback Fighting Wolves
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Bowling for Soup Dan Reed Sons of Icarus Royal Republic Maiden uniteD Never Means Maybe Skin (UK band)|Skin Intraverse
Sunday June 12
Main Stage
Second Stage
Pepsi Max Stage
Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Linkin Park Bullet for My Valentine Disturbed The Gaslight Anthem The Pretty Reckless Bowling for Soup Madina Lake Biohazard (band)|Biohazard Suicide Silence
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Rob Zombie The Cult (band)|The Cult Black Veil Brides Buckcherry Turisas Gwar Kvelertak Hyro Da Hero Malefice Yashin (band)|Yashin Collapse
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Frank Turner Plain White T's Silverstein Framing Hanley Deaf Havana T-34 Starseed My Darkest Days Sworn Amongst Hell (band)|Hell Trucker Diablo Knock Out Kaine Jameson Raid
valign="top" align="center" width=200 H.E.A.T. Baptized in Blood The Dead Lay Waiting Illuminatus (band)|Illuminatus You and What Army October File Belligerance Skeletal Damage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Dave McPherson (musician)|Dave McPherson Red, White and Blues Hyro Da Hero The Morning After Slaves to Gravity Heaven's Basement Voodoo Johnson Raven Vandelle
Download 2012
On 12 July 2011 it was confirmed via Twitter, and the Download official website that the festival would be staged in 2012 between 8–10 June. Limited early-bird tickets were put on sale on 15 July. It will be the tenth edition of the festival. It was announced on 10 November via BBC Radio 1 that Metallica would headline the main stage on the Saturday and also that they would be playing their Metallica (album)|self titled album in its entirety. http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2011/11/metallica_for_download_2012.html The next day Black Sabbath were announced to headline the main stage on Sunday 10 June, closing the festival. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15698271 Black Sabbath reform to play Download rock festival BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2011 On 18 November, The Prodigy was announced as the headliner for Friday 8 June. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15787341 Prodigy announced as final headliners BBC. Retrieved 19 November 2011 On January 16th 2012, Soundgarden , Chase & Status , The Dillinger Escape Plan, You Me At Six, Tenacious D , Machine Head, Trivium, Lamb of God, Devin Townsend|Devin Townsend Project , DevilDriver, Little Angels , Anthrax, Ugly Kid Joe and August Burns Red were all confirmed to perform. Over the month of February, 20 bands were announced, including Friday and Sunday's second stage headliners; Slash (with vocals provided my Myles Kennedy ) and Rise Against respectively.
On 19 March, Europe (band)|Europe , Emmure , Stellar Revival, Firewind, Theory of a Deadman and seven more bands were added to the lineup. http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/news/article/europe_halestorm_firewind_and_more_added_to_the_line_up Europe, Halestorm, Firewind and more added to the line up – Download Festival official website Accessed 19 March 2012 Black Spiders, Four Year Strong , Lower Than Atlantis, Rival Sons , Kobra and the Lotus , Skindred, Kids in Glass Houses, Gallows, Six Hour Sundown, Refused , The Union (band)|The Union , Lawnmower Deth, My Passion, Silent Descent, Don Broco , No Americana, Edguy , Porter Robinson , T. Mills and Fearless Vampire Killers were added to the lineup on 3 April.citation needed|date=April 2012 Five Finger Death Punch were scheduled to perform on Sunday on the Main Stage between DevilDriver and Kyuss|Kyuss Lives! but on 5 April they pulled out due to "logistic difficulties". Anthrax, who were initially set to play on the Zippo Encore Stage, were brought up to the main stage (later dubbed the Jim Marshall stage) due to Five Finger Death Punch's cancellation. T. Mills was scheduled to perform on Saturday on the Red Bull stage but pulled out in May.
On April 12th 2012, Download Festival announced on their website, official Facebook page and official Twitter page that the main stage will be named after Jim Marshall (businessman) |Jim Marshall who died a week earlier.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php? fbid=10150932044904202& set=a.214810784201.171981.9875574201& type=1& theater Download Festival announcement on Facebook
Friday June 8
The Jim Marshall Stage
Zippo Encore Stage
Pepsi Max Stage
Redbull Bedroom Jam Stage
Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 The Prodigy Chase & Status Machine Head (band)| Machine Head Billy Talent NOFX Fear Factory Cancer Bats Rise to Remain
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Slash_(musician)#2008.E2.80.93present:_Solo_career|Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Nightwish Opeth Little Angels Europe (band) |Europe Terrorvision The Quireboys Red, White and Blues Six Hour Sundown
valign="top" align="center" width=200 The Devin Townsend Project AxeWound Soil (band)|Soil While She Sleeps The Defiled Lawnmower Deth Hounds Absolute Power Silent Descent Impaled Existence
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Gallows (band)|Gallows The Safety Fire Porter Robinson The Marmozets Upon a Burning Body Broken
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Skindred Breed 77 Yashin (band)|Yashin With One Last Breath Neonfly Million Dollar Reload
Saturday June 9
The Jim Marshall Stage
Zippo Encore Stage
Pepsi Max Stage
Redbull Bedroom Jam Stage
Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Metallica Biffy Clyro Tenacious D Steel Panther Trivium (band)|Trvium Black Veil Brides Saxon (band)|Saxon As I Lay Dying (band)| As I Lay Dying
valign="top" align="center" width=200 The Mission (band)|The Mission The Union (band)|The Union Corey Taylor Sylosis My Passion The Treatment Anti-Nowhere League Gun (band)|Gun The Yo-Yos Turbowolf Don Broco Avosetta No Americana
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Cockney Rejects Fearless Vampire Killers Mallory Knox Butcher Babies 4 Arm Freebase Royal Cartel
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Tyla The Quireboys Heaven's Basement Red, White & Blues Soil (band)|Soil Gun (band)|Gun
Sunday June 10
The Jim Marshall Stage
Zippo Encore Stage
Pepsi Max Stage
Redbull Bedroom Jam Stage
Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Black Sabbath Soundgarden Megadeth Lamb of God (band)|Lamb of God Black Label Society Anthrax (band)| Anthrax Kyuss Lives! DevilDriver Stellar Revival
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Rise Against Dropkick Murphys Refused Shinedown Ugly Kid Joe Sebastian Bach Rival Sons August Burns Red We Are the Ocean Black Spiders Kobra and the Lotus
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Periphery (band)|Periphery Ghost (Swedish band)|Ghost Firewind Emmure La Dispute (band)|La Dispute James Cleaver Quintet Shadows Fall Edguy Reckless Love Heaven's Basement Feed the Rhino
valign="top" align="center" width=200 William Control Hawk Eyes The Dirty Youth With One Last Breath Kopek (band)|Kopek Pitch Black (band)|Pitch Black Kamchatka (band)|Kamchatka
valign="top" align="center" width=200 Fearless Vampire Killers Saint Jude (band)|Saint Jude Voodoo Johnson Sanguine (band)|Sanguine
References
Reflist
External links
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