DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES A FURTHER 17 BANDS
BLACK STONE CHERRY, CHTHONIC & THE ORIENTAL ORCHESTRA, DRAGONFORCE, MASTERS OF REALITY, GHOST, SATYRICON AND MANY MORE CONFIRMED
DAY TICKETS ON SALE FROM 9AM ON THURS. DAY 28 MARCHWEEKEND TICKETS ON SALE NOW www.downloadfestival.co.uk
Download Festival has confirmed 17 more bands including Black Stone Cherry, CHTHONIC & The Oriental Orchestra, DragonForce, Masters Of Reality, Ghost, Satyricon and more for one incredible weekend of rock. Headlined by Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein, Download Festival takes place on 14-16 June 2013 at Donington Park. Day tickets are on sale from 9am on Thursday 28 March and are available at www.downloadfestival.co.uk. Weekend tickets are available now and selling quick!
Back for their fourth epic appearance at Download Festival are American rockers Black Stone Cherry with someloud, hard, in-your-face rock music. The band’s 2011 set left crowds gasping for more with a relentless onslaught of big guitar riffs at maximum volume. Taiwanese group CHTHONIC & The Oriental Orchestra and Norway’s legendary Satyricon will treat fans to some pure unadulterated black metal, while bestowing utter mayhem and full scale metal force at Donington are DragonForce. Ghost are also confirmed for 2013 having just completed a successful UK tour culminating in a sold out Brixton Academy in London.
American rockers Masters Of Reality join the bill performing tracks spanning their six studio albums, and ready to ‘Stand Up For Rock N Roll’ are US group Red White & Blues. Fearless Vampire Killers will tear it up with some theatrical alt-rock, punk rock band of the moment Fidlar will bring their Californian jams to UK shores, and Brit hardcore group Palm Reader are getting ready to churn up the Donington mosh pit.
Californian‘70s-style blues rockers Rival Sons are also confirmed, they joined Black Stone Cherry on their UK tour last year playing to packed out crowds across the country. American rockers Little Caesar are confirmed for some ballsy rock music, and the new supergroup Krokodil featuring members of Sikth, Johnny Truant, Cry for Silence, Gallows and Hexes will make their first Download appearance as a band.
Pop-punk piece Patent Pending are also added to the bill fresh from their tour with Bowling For Soup. Brit metal heads Idiom also join the bill, fresh from touring with Skindred, and last but by no means least are UK rockers Voodoo Six and Hammer Of The Gods.
Day tickets for the festival go on sale from Thursday 28 March and weekend are on sale now available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk
Download RIP ticket packages are on sale now and can be purchased via www.livenationexperience.co.uk or by phoning 0207 009 3484.
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FRIDAY 14 JUNE SATURDAY 15 JUNE SUNDAY 16 JUNE
MAIN STAGE
SLIPKNOT IRON MAIDEN RAMMSTEIN
Bullet For My Valentine Queens of the Stone Age Thirty Seconds To Mars
Korn Motorhead The Gaslight Anthem
Down Alice In Chains Stone Sour
Papa Roach Mastodon Parkway Drive
Asking Alexandria Buckcherry Five Finger Death Punch
Architects Young Guns Coal Chamber
Rise To Remain UFO Cancer Bats
Sacred Mother Tongue
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ZIPPO ENCORE STAGE
BLACK STONE CHERRY ENTER SHIKARI LIMP BIZKIT
Gogol Bordello Jimmy Eat World A Day to Remember
3 Doors Down Lit Airbourne
Volbeat Karnivool Ghost
Europe Katatonia Rival Sons
DragonForce Hardcore Superstar Amon Amarth
Uriah Heep Escape The Fate Masters of Reality
Skin Heaven’s Basement Graveyard
Dir En Grey Red White & Blues The Ghost Inside
I Divide HellYeah
Blitz Kids
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PEPSI MAX STAGE
HIM THE HIVES SATIRICON
Converge CHTHONIC & The Oriental Orchestra Modestep
Motionless In White Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats P.O.D
Turisas Bury Tomorrow Newsted
In This Moment Walking Papers Red Fang
The Sword Heart Of A Coward Vision Of Disorder
Hang The Bastard Empress Bleed From Within
Patent Pending Nekrogoblikon Hactivist
Palm Reader Crowns Brutality Will Prevail
Emperor Chung Earthtone 9 Little Caesar
Hill Valley High Krokodil
Broken States Of Panic
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RED BULL STAGE
Fearless Vampire Killers After The Burial Sonic Boom Six
Fidlar Last Witness Glamour Of The Kill
The Algorithm Rat Attack I Am I
Verses Voodoo Six Buffalo Summer
Hammer Of The Gods Silent Screams Huntress
Blacklist Royals Black Dogs
Astrid Boys Mordecai
Idiom The First
Cytota Naked Flame