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Download Festival 2012 Adds Eighteen New Bands (In Two Lots) To Tenth Anniversary Edition

In addition to the news we brought you at the end of last week that Five Finger Death Punch have unfortunately had to pull out of Download’s tenth anniversary edition of the festival, during last week there were two sets of new band announcements that we thought we had better… Read More »

Five Finger Death Punch Pull Out Of Appearance at Download Festival 2012

Within the last hour, the news has broken that unfortunately Five Finger Death Punch are no longer appearing at the tenth anniversary of the Download Festival at Donington Park. Five Finger Death Punch released a short statement on the matter on the official Download Festival website which read as follows:… Read More »

22 More Acts Confirmed For Download Festival 2012

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL has announced a further 22 incredible additions to its celebratory 10th anniversary line-up, including COREY TAYLOR, DROPKICK MURPHYS, CANCER BATS, RISE TO REMAIN and SAXON in what marks its biggest EVERyear. They join The Prodigy, Metallica and Black Sabbath for the greatest weekend in the rock calendar on… Read More »

Download Festival 2012 Adds Six More Bands To The Roster Including Killswitch Engage

Well they certainly kept that one quiet! Download have done it again and sneaked out another rather stonking lineup announcement. Coming onboard to play at Donington Park at Download’s tenth anniversary this time are none other than Killswitch Engage, recently reunited with original singer Jesse Leach in what promises to… Read More »

Download Festival 2012 Day and Stage Splits Update

Well, it’s been a day since the double Download Festival line-up announcement was announced (and spoiled somewhat by Soungarden, read about that here) and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive as Download fights back against Sonisphere in a big way. Rocksins has been collating information, mostly provided by Download booker… Read More »

Black Sabbath Reunite To Join Metallica Headlining Download Festival 2012, Make First New Album in Over 30 Years

The worst kept secret from the last few days is out: Black Sabbath are back and they are the second headliners announced for the 10th edition of The Download Festival, Download 2012. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Gezer Butler and Bill Ward announced yesterday at a press conference in California that… Read More »

Metallica To Make Donington History By Playing Entire Black Album at Download 2012

Ok, so we got it half right. As widely speculated and rumoured across the Internet over the last day or so, Metallica are indeed returning to Castle Donington to headline the 2012 installment of The Download Festival, their third time headlining the festival in its ten years in its current… Read More »