Download 2024 is go! Following in the footsteps of other European festivals like Rock AM Ring and Nova Rock over the last week or so, the Download Festival team have unleashed the bulk of the 2024 Line up in one huge announcement.
For the first time since 2012, the Download Festival has two new headliners in the same year.
Queens Of The Stone Age have the honour of being opening night Friday headliners, while fresh from their massive UK tour, Fall Out Boy will top things off on Saturday night. Filling the role of Download elder statesmen on their third headlining appearance this year will be Avenged Sevenfold – we can certainly think of worse ways to close the Donington party than with A Little Piece Of Heaven!
The bumper announcement contains loads of big hitters. Royal Blood make their Download Festival debut, as do the reunited / reformed Pantera. Machine Head return to Donington for the first time since 2012. There’s punk rock and pop punk aplenty in the shape of The Offspring, Billy Talent and our pals Bowling For Soup! Their peers Sum 41 make their last UK festival appearance before their retirement in a huge exclusive for the 2024 Download Festival.
While She Sleeps will hopefully bring their arena level production of their recent tour to Donington as they move up the bill for their biggest Download slot of their career so far. The Fox God cometh once again as Babymetal return to Download Festival. Corey Taylor returns to Donington in solo mode, alongside other acts like The Used, Biohazard, Thy Art Is Murder and The Black Dahlia Murder (in the UK for the first time since the passing of Trevor Strnad). Heilung bring their unique dark folk sounds to Download for the first time, with Bad Omens also making their Donington debut.
Several more of Rock Sins favourites are also on the bill. Holding Absence return after their triumphant 2022 set. Likewise Bleed From Within, who will level whatever stage they’re put on. Fellow UK metallers URNE make their first appearance at Download, while the ever expanding boundaries of hardcore are well represented by the likes of Scowl, Make Them Suffer, Zulu and Counterparts. ERRA, Imminence, Alien Weaponry and Heriot will all hold up the metal end of Download Festival 2024 in their own unique ways, while expect a huge rendition of 00’s favourite The Reason wherever Hoobastank end up playing – doubly so given they’re playing the entire album in full!
Download Festival 2024 (presented by their first ever headline partner, Liquid Death) takes place from the 14th to the 16th of June 2024 at the UK’s spiritual home of rock and metal – Donington Park (campsite open from the 12th to the 17th of June).
Tickets for Download Festival 2024 are available on Barclaycard pre-sale from 9pm on Tuesday 7th of November. The festival official pre-sale will begin Wednesday 8th of November, while the general sale for tickets will be on Thursday 9th of November (on this link). A full list of bands announced for Download 2024 follows underneath the poster.
Bands Announced For Download Festival 2024
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
FALL OUT BOY
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
ALIEN WEAPONRY
ALPHA WOLF
ALL THEM WITCHES
ALT BLK ERA
ATREYU
BABYMETAL
BAD OMENS
BILLY TALENT
BIOHAZARD
BLEED FROM WITHIN
BOWLING FOR SOUP
BRAND OF SACRIFICE
CALVA LOUISE
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY
CHARLOTTE SANDS
COREY TAYLOR
COUNTERPARTS
CRYSTAL LAKE
DEATHBYROMY
DEFECTS
DELILAH BON
DREAM STATE
DYING FETUS
DYING WISH
ELVANA
ERRA
FEAR FACTORY
FIT FOR A KING
FROZEMODE
GEL
HALOCENE
HANABIE
HARPER
HEILUNG
HERIOT
HOLDING ABSENCE
HOOBASTANK
HOTWAX
IMMINENCE
KARNIVOOL
KELSY KARTER & THE HEROINES
KNIFE BRIDE
LORD OF THE LOST
MACHINE HEAD
MAKE THEM SUFFER
MISSIO
NOAHFINNCE
OXYMORRONS
PANTERA
PEST CONTROL
POLYPHIA
PINKSHIFT
RØRY
ROYAL BLOOD
ROYAL & THE SERPENT
SCENE QUEEN
SCOWL
SHADOW OF INTENT
SILVERSTEIN
SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL
SPEED
STORM
SUM 41
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
THE BLUE STONES
THE CALLOUS DAOBOYS
THE OFFSPRING
THE USED
THOSE DAMN CROWS
THY ART IS MURDER
TIGERCUB
UNDERSIDE
UNTIL I WAKE
URNE
VUKOVI
WARGASM
WHILE SHE SLEEPS
ZULU
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