UPDATE: The full 2018 Download Festival Australia lineup has now been announced.
ORIGINAL STORY: With hype building ahead of Download Festival‘s first-ever Australian event, a number of bands that will feature on the festival’s debut Aussie lineup have come to light.
Music Feeds understands the first-ever Australian edition of Download Festival will feature sets from nu-metal legends Korn, ‘Rollin” crew Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine/Cypress Hill/Public Enemy supergroup Prophets Of Rage, punk icons NOFX and more.
Despite System Of A Down appearing in HTML code within the once active Download Festival Australia website, sources with knowledge of the festival’s lineup have said the band are not on the event’s debut Aussie roster.
Read up on some of the acts we’ll be seeing on the lineup in the photo gallery, below.
Download Festival is expected to be held exclusively in Melbourne in late March, after the event’s official website — which momentarily went live last month — mentioned the event was “coming for you Melborne [sic]” in 2018.
Korn and Limp Bizkit teased their upcoming trip to Australia during a media interview earlier this month, when Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland revealed the band is preparing to hit Australia with Korn in March, which is when Download Festival is expected to make its debut down under.
The full Download Festival Australia lineup was initially expected to be announced in October, but organisers are now believed to be preparing for an announcement later this month.
While the festival is expected to take place in Melbourne in 2018, sideshows are expected in other capital cities, namely Sydney and Brisbane.
Not one, not two, but at least three fake Download Festival Australia lineup posters have been making the rounds as of late, but stay tuned to Music Feeds for the real one as soon as it drops.
UPDATE: Download Festival Australia: Date, Venue & Lineup Countdown Revealed
Gallery: Download Festival Australia Acts (So Far)
Download Festival Australia Bands
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Korn
Korn last toured Australia as part of the now-defunct Soundwave Festival in 2014, and while they were trying to arrange a 2017 tour down under, we'll have to wait until Download arrives in 2018. (Photo: Rob Ball / Getty Images) -
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit previously went rollin' through Australia in 2013, and since then fans have been holding out for the group's long-awaited sixth album 'Stampede of the Disco Elephants', so they could be debuting new music down under when they head to Australia for Download. (Photo: Chiaki Nozu / Getty Images) -
Prophets Of Rage
The Rage Against The Machine/Public Enemy/Cypress Hill supergroup already revealed that they were planning their Aussie debut for 2018, and now they're set to make the trip for the first-ever Download Festival Australia, backed by their debut self-titled album and a whole lotta' fury. (Photo: Josh Brasted / Getty Images) -
NOFX
Fat Mike and his punk m8s were scheduled to perform at Soundwave Festival in 2016, before the event went under. They'll return in 2018, backed by their latest album 'First Ditch Effort'. (Photo: Tim Mosenfelder / Getty Images)
