Download Festival Adds More Headliners, Announces Day Tickets

Not content with a pretty ass-kicking roster so far, the UK’s Download Festival has announced 17 new acts overnight to give us their complete line-up, including the two remaining headliners on a couple of the smaller stages.

Leading the pack is American rockers Black Stone Cherry, who are going to close the Encore Stage on the Friday night, providing an alternative for those who don’t want to go see Slipknot tear it up on the main stage. Dragonforce will surely get a loud hometown reception when they bring their ridiculous solos and other technical metal madness to the Encore Stage earlier in the evening.

The other smaller stage headlining spot has been given to Norway black metallers Satyricon, who will close the Pepsi Max Stage on Sunday, the same night as Limp Bizkit and Rammstein tear it up elsewhere.

A handful of other UK hard rock acts were also added to the bill, including Idiom, Voodoo Six and Hammer Of The Gods.

Organisers have also announced that individual day tickets to the festival will go on sale this Thursday, 28th March at 9am local time (8pm AEDT). Prices haven’t been revealed, but given that 3-day passes to the festival (without camping) are £170, you’d probably expect something around the £60-70 mark.

You can find out who is playing on what day via the official poster – Saturday is definitely looking the tastiest to us. Having said that, local heroes Parkway Drive and Airbourne will be making their presence felt the following day, so that could be the ideal time to grab your Aussie flag and wave it around in there.

Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in the UK from 14th-16th June. The festival is headlined this year by Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein. More info is available at the festival’s official website.

Download Festival – Fifth Announcement:

Black Stone Cherry

Fidlar

Masters of Reality

Chthonic & The Oriental Orchestra

DragonForce

Ghost

Satyricon

Red White & Blues

Fearless Vampire Killers

Rival Sons

Palm Reader

Little Caesar

Previously Announced:

Slipknot

Iron Maiden

Rammstein

Bullet For My Valentine

Queens Of The Stone Age

Thirty Seconds To Mars

The Gaslight Anthem

Alice In Chains

Him

A Day To Remember

Volbeat

Coal Chamber

Stone Sour

Mastodon

Airbourne

Amon Amarth

Asking Alexandria

Black Dogs

Buffalo Summer

Cancer Bats

Converge

Down

Earthtone9

Enter Shikari

Five Finger Death Punch

Goldsboro

Hacktivist

Hardcore Superstar

Heaven’s Basement

Hellyeah

The Hives

Huntress

I Am I

In This Moment

Jimmy Eat World

Korn

Last Witness

Limp Bizkit

Motionless In White

Parkway Drive

The Sword

3 Doors Down

Ufo

Vision Of Disorder

Walking Papers

Young Guns

Papa Roach

Motorhead

Architects

After The Burial

The Algorithm

Astroid Boys

Blacklist Royals

Blitz Kids

Bleed From Within

Brutality Will Prevail

Buckcherry

Bury Tomorrow

Crowns

Dir En Grey

Escape The Fate

Emperor Chung

Empress

Europe

The First

The Ghost Inside

Glamour Of The Kill

Gogol Bordello

Graveyard

Hang The Bastard

Heart Of A Coward

Hill Valley High

I Divide

Karnivool

Katatonia

Lit

Modestep

Mordecai

Naked Flame

Nekrogoblikon

P.O.D.

Rat Attack

Red Fang

Rise To Remain

Sacred Mother Tongue

Skin

Silent Screams

Sonic Boom Six

States Of Panic

Turisas

Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats

Uriah Heep

Verses

Broken

Newsted

Cytota

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