We all know that Download Festival starts as soon as the gates open on a Wednesday lunchtime. With many fantastic events like The Takeover and some of our friends doing awesome DJ sets, District X and The Doghouse are definitely the place to be for the early arrivals. For Download 2025, it felt like the…
We are very much into the final countdown before the gates of Donington open for the 2025 Download Festival! We’ve got features aplenty to keep eager attendees excited as they countdown the days, and up today is our preview of the festival’s first full day of entertainment. Recently we caught up with Download Senior Booker…
Through time, space and metal music, the conceptual metallers STARSET brought their stories into the sold-out Manchester Academy 2. They possess a journey that was not only phenomenally captivating, just astronomical fun. Check out the action from the night, captured by our photographer Sabrina Ramdoyal in the gallery below!
Since their formation in 2013, it’s fair to say that it feels like Starset has been flying somewhat under the radar on this side of the pond despite racking up over a billion streams. However, with the rocket ride that is Horizons, the band look set to enter new frontiers with their genre-defying, space-fused, new age concept-driven unique…
Heads are sore, feet are weary but that matters not because there is one full day of Download 2019 left to go. The Donington masses collectively dust themselves down as they head towards Tool, Enter Shikari, Slayer’s last ever UK show and much more, so let’s get straight to it. I Prevail (7), through no…
There’s absolutely NO fucking around from the Download Festival team this time. Straight into the first announcement, all three Download 2019 headliners have been confirmed along with 17 other bands! Kicking things off for 2019 are your headliners, Slipknot, Def Leppard (performing Hysteria in full and much more), and the long awaited return of TOOL….