Nottingham metalcore upstarts The Five Hundred first caught our attention a few years back when they released their Winters EP. Since then, they’ve released their debut album, Bleed Red, and have now scored the biggest gig of their careers so far, a prime slot on The Boardie Takeover on the Thursday night of Download Festival 2019….
The partnership between the Download Festival and Zippo has been very well established for many years now. The very successful relationship continues for another year in 2019, and as they have done for the past several years, Download and Zippo have teamed up on a set of limited edition Download Festival branded Zippo lighters. Just…
With exactly one month to go before the first day of bands at the 2019 Download Festival, the Download team have one more line up announcement for everyone. Finishing off the line up of bands for 2019 are six more acts, headed by Dutch symphonic metal maestros Epica! The world’s first Nirvana covers band fronted…
Halestorm’s star has never shone as brightly in the UK as it does right now. With their impending Zippo Encore Stage headlining slot at this year’s Download Festival looming ever closer on the horizon, we caught up with Halestorm bassist Josh Smith to talk about the band’s history with Download both in the UK and…
Every year for the past several years at Download Festival, a special event occurs. On the Thursday of the festival, the Doghouse tent is turned over to a very important part of the Download Festival community – those behind the Download Forums – for the annual “Boardie Takeover“. Having grown in size and popularity, its…
We all like playing a good game now and then don’t we? The Download Festival team certainly do. Following on from the raging success of their limited edition Download Festival themed monopoly, the team are very pleased to present their latest creation….Download Twister! Newbies to Twister may find the Download edition a bit easier than…
A nice little Monday evening treat has been Bestowed upon the rock and metal faithful as Download Festival have announced a further 17 acts for this years already stacked lineup. Joining the already announced acts will be Kvelertak, The Wonder Years, Hot Milk, Lost Society, Queen Zee, Dinosaur Pile-up, Nova Twins, The Picturebooks, Vambo, Allusinlove,…
Many of us hoped that the tradition of WWE NXT being part of the Download Festival would continue in 2019. Well it is, and in a big new way. As confirmed by WWE on the WWEUK Twitter account a few minutes ago, a TV taping for a future installment of NXT UK is going to…
Well, the Download Festival team have just reduced us all to a bunch of gibbering wrecks with their latest announcement for Download 2019. One of the greatest collection of bands ever unveiled in a single Donington announcement boasts heavy hitters in all kinds of sub-genres of rock and metal. Topping the pile (seriously, where do…
We said with their first announcement that the Download Festival team certainly weren’t messing around with their plans for 2019. Having dropped all three headliners and another dozen plus bands in the first announcement, they’ve followed it up with another mammoth helping of bands for next year. There’s only one place we can start, and…