Killswitch Engage, NOFX, Black Veil Brides To Play 2012 Download Festival

Killswitch Engage, Shinedown, Black Veil Brides, NOFX, Opeth and Nightwish have been confirmed to play this year's Download Festival in Donnington, UK on June 8-10.

You Me At Six, Soundgarden, Tenacious D + Biffy Clyro To Play Download Festival

You Me At Six, Biffy Clyro, Soundgarden, Tenacious D and Chase and Status have been added to the 2012 Download Festival in Donnington Park, UK alongside Black Sabbath, The Prodigy and Metallica.

The Prodigy To Headline 2012 Download Festival

The Prodigy have been confirmed as one of the headliners of the 2012 Download Festival in Donnington Park, England.

Also confirmed to headline are Metallica and the recently reformed Black Sabbath.

Black Sabbath To Headline 2012 Download Festival

Black Sabbath will join Metallica as headliners of the 2012 Download Festival, which will take place at Donington Park, England.

Metallica To Headline Download Festival 2012

Metallica have been confirmed as one of the headliners for the 2012 Download Festival in Donnington Park, England.

Download Festival 2011 Stage Times

Stage times for this weekend's Download Festival can be viewed by clicking read more.

Slaves To Gravity Behind The Scenes Video and Acoustic Download Festival Appearance

Slaves To Gravity have posted the behind the scenes video for 'Silence Now'. Click read more to view.

In addition the band will be playing a special acoustic set at Download festival on June 12th.

June 10th - Glasgow - The Arches (w. Buckcherry)
June 12th - Download Festival acoustic set
June 14th - London - Electric Ballroom (w. Buckcherry)
July 16th - London - Shepherds Bush Empire (w. Papa Roach)
July 17th - Sheffield - Academy (w. Papa Roach)

Bowling For Soup, Hyro Da Hero, Don Broco and More Added to Download Festival

Bowling For Soup, Hyro Da Hero, Don Broco and more have been added to the line-up for this year's Download Festival.

Other new additions include SKIN, Slaves To Gravity, Obsessive Compulsive, Verses, Heaven's Basement, Royal Republic, Million $ Reload, The Morning After, Maiden United, Dan Reed, The Dirty Youth, Voodoo Johnson, Red, White & Blues, Modestep, Kill 21, Fighting Wolves, H.E.A.T. and You And What Army.

Skindred UK and European Tour and FestiVal Dates

Skindred will be playing throughout the UK and Europe from the end of April.

'Union Black' is released on April 25th.

April
26th Brighton, Concorde 2
27th Portsmouth, Pyramids
28th Norwich, Waterfront
29th Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall
30th Nottingham, Rock City

MAY
2nd Exeter, Lemon Grove
3rd Cardiff, University Solus
4th Margate, The Westcoast
5th Liverpool, O2 Academy
6th Sheffield, Corporation
7th London, HMV Forum

JUNE
11th Download Festival, Donington Park UK
23rd Prague City Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
24th Sonisphere Festival, Basel St Jakob, Switzerland
25th Sonisphere Festival, Imola ,Italy
26th Open Air, Imst , Austria

JULY
2nd RosRock Festival , Rossum ,Netherlands
3rd With Full Force, Leipzig , Germany
5th Schurrluzern, Switzerand (with Anthrax)
10th Werfpop Festival ,Leiden, Netherlands
11th Garage Saarbrucken, Germany (with Anthrax)
12th Voxhall Aarhus, Denmark (with Anthrax)
14th Hultsfred Festival , Hulstfred , Sweden
15th Dour Festival , Dour ,Belgium
23rd Serengeti Festival , Stuckenbrook , Germany
29th Demo Fest , Banja Luka ,Bosnia

AUGUST
4th Polish Woodstock ,Kostrzyn , Poland
5th Wacken open air , Wacken , Germany
6th Trebur open air , Trebur , Germany
19th Highfield , Leipzig , Germany
21st Area 4 , Borkenberge , Germany

D.R.U.G.S, The Dangerous Summer, Silverstein + More Confirm For Download

Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, The Dangerous Summer and Silverstein are amongst the few that have just been confirmed for this year's Download Festival.

The following bands have now been confirmed:

Anti-Flag, Baptized In Blood, Belligerence, Bio Hazard, Blitz Kids, Boss Hoss, Children of Bodom, Chthonic, CKY, Dan Reed, Deaf Havana, Dear Superstar, Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, Dio Disciples, Envy Of The State, Heights, Houston, Illuminatus, Karma to Burn, Kellermensch, Letlive., Lower Than Atlantis, Malefice, My Darkest Days, Oaf, October File, Rock Sugar, Royal Republic, Sevendust, Silverstein, Skeletal Damage, Skindred, Starseed, Sweet Savage, T-34, The Dangerous Summer, The Dead Lay Waiting, The Morning After, The Rods, TRC, Wayne Static, Yashin, Young Guns.

The Darkness, Funeral For A Friend, Plain White T's + Framing Hanley To Play Download

The Darkness, Funeral For A Friend, Framing Hanley, Plain White T's, Kvelertak and Hyro Da Hero have been confirmed to play this year's Download Festival.

Bring Me The Horizon, Disturbed, Madina Lake and More Added To Download Festival

Bring Me The Horizon, Disturbed, The Devil Wears Prada, Madina Lake, Frank Turner, The King Blues and more have been added to this years line-up for the Download Festival.

New additions:

Bring Me The Horizon
Disturbed
Madina Lake
All That Remains
Turisas
The Devil Wears Prada
Cheap Trick
Black Stone Cherry
Asking Alexandria
Sacred Mother Tounge
Jameson Raid
Ghost
Straight Line Stitch
The King Blues
Bowling For Soup
Frank Turner

Def Leppard To Headline Download Festival

Def Leppard have been announced as the third headliner for this years Download Festival.

Linkin Park and System Of A Down will also be headlining the 3 day festival on Donington.

Trash Talk, Twisted Sister and More Added To Download Festival

Trash Talk, Twisted Sister, Down and Duff McKagan's Loaded have been confirmed for this years Download Festival at Donington Park, Leicestershire, which takes place on June 10th, 11th and 12th.

The Gaslight Anthem, Escape The Fate and Many More Added To Download Festival

20 new bands have been added to the line-up for Download Festival 2011, including The Gaslight Anthem, Escape The Fate, The Damned Things and Bullet For My Valentine.

The other additions to the festival are Alter Bridge, Black Veil Brides, Alice Cooper, Buckcherry, Clutch, The Cult, Danzig, FM, GWAR, Hollywood Undead, Korn, Masters of Reality, Mr. Big, Pendulum, Rise To Remain and Thin Lizzy.

Pendulum Added To Download Festival

Pendulum have been added to the 2011 Download Festival, with 19 other additions to be announced later tonight.

Linkin Park To Play Download Festival

Linkin Park have been confirmed to play the 2011 Download Festival in the UK.

Paramore, Blink 182 and My Chemical Romance Rumoured For UK Festivals?

According to BBC Radio One, Paramore, Blink 182 and My Chemical Romance are set to play either the Download Festival or Sonisphere Festival next year.

The station are to have said:

"2 of them are Download headliners and 1 is for Sonisphere!"

System of a Down + Avenged Sevenfold Confirmed For Download 2011

System of a Down and Avenged Sevenfold have been confirmed as the first two headliners of the 2011 Download Festival in Donnington Park, England.

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage Download Festival Bands Announced

Sacred Betrayal, You and What Army, This is Divine, Never Mean Maybe, No Mean City, Stand Up Guy, Heights and Hearts Under Fire have won the chance to play the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage at this weekend's Download Festival.

All eight bands will also play Underage, T in the Park, Hevy and Sonisphere festivals later this summer.