Music News: Download 2023 – Headliners & A Ton Of Bands Announced!

Carl Fisher 1 min read

The 20th anniversary of Download Festival will take place at Donnington Park from June 8th to June 11th, 2023. Yes, you read that right. It’s 4-night special edition for DL20!

The first line up announcement for the 20th anniversary of the festival has been made and it includes the headliners and over 60 additional acts. Bring Me the Horizon, Slipknot, and Metallica will headline in 2023, with the latter playing two completely unique sets on Thursday and Saturday!

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Elsewhere, attendees can look forward to giants like Architects, Disturbed, Placebo, Evanescence, Ghost, Parkway Drive, Alexisonfire, Pendulum and Within Temptation.

If all of that wasn’t enough for your first announcement, Download also announced a whole host of other bands appearing over the weekend. They are:

As December Falls, Asking Alexandria, Aviva, Bambie Thug, Beauty School Dropout, Behemoth, Blackgold, Blind Channel, Bloodywood, Brutus, Crashface, Crawlers, Dead Sara, Elvana, Enola Gay, Fever 333, Fixation, Graphic Nature, GWAR, Hawxx, Ingested, I Prevail, Jazmin Bean, Kid Bookie, Kid Kapichi, Lake Malice, Lorna Shore, Mod Sun, Monuments, Motionless In White, Municipal Waste, nothing, nowhere., Nova Twins, Polaris, Pupil Slicer, Seether, Set It Off, SiM, Simple Plan, Soen, Soul Glo, Stand Atlantic, Stray From The Path, Taylor Acorn, The Blackout, The Distillers, The Meffs, Terror, Three Days Grace, Touche Amore, VV, Witch Fever.

It’s going to be one hell of a long-weekend and the presale has started today, Tuesday 8th November. You can pick your tickets up here.




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