On a sun soaked Sunday in 2009, British rock legends Def Leppard brought the Download Festival for that year to a close with a triumphant set packed with all their hits and a few hidden gems to boot. One of the most popular songs on the night was the rendition of their biggest hit from…
2013 marks the first time Iron Maiden have stepped onto the hallowed Donington stage in six years. Headlining their third Download Festival this year, after doing so on the festival’s debut in 2003 as well as 2007, their “Maiden England” performance has the potential to be their greatest ever Donington show. For those of you,…
As we didn’t get to give our readers any classic Download videos over the weekend, we’ve got a double dose for you all today! As we all know, nu metal legends Limp Bizkit will be making their first appearance at Download for four years when they headline the Zippo Encore stage on the final day…
Certain events are defining moments in the careers of bands or artists. Back in 2005, on the Saturday morning of that years’ Download Festival, a young metal band from Florida opened the main stage (after being promoted from a smaller stage) to a crowd of thousands. On that morning, Trivium gave a performance which launched…
Going back in time a fair bit, today’s classic Download Festival video clip is from the early days of the event back in 2005. In a year that saw Feeder (yes, really, Feeder), Black Sabbath and System Of A Down headline the event, Papa Roach were still riding high from their early nu metal successes…
Continuing our run up to Download 2013 with a series of classic performance videos from the Donington archives, today’s video sees us heading back to the rain soaked 2011 to see a taster from Avenged Sevenfold’s very popular set in 2011. Sub-headlining the main stage that year under System Of A Down, Avenged upstaged S.O.A.D…
We will do this again my friends, I swear to fuckin’ god”. Words spoken by Corey Taylor at the conclusion of Slipknot’s mind blowing headline set at the 2009 edition Download Festival. Slipknot delivered one of the all time great metal festival headline performances that night, a show which is one of the greatest in…
After the Facebook leak of yesterday (see here), it wasn’t going to take the powers at be at Castle Donington long to have to confirm their second headliners for Download 2013, and at 10am today they duly obliged. A visit to the official Download Festival website will now see the Rammstein logo sitting proudly next…
The rumours have been rife ever since the dust and dirt settled on Download 2012 and those eager for their first bit of news about next years’ installment of metal mayhem at Donington won’t have to wait much longer. The official Download Festival Facebook Page has changed their header image to a banner saying “first…
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 catch up on for those…
