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The
Download Festival is a three day
rock music festival held annually at
Donington Park, England (which
hosted Monsters of Rock between 1980
and 1996, and 2002's Ozzfest). It
usually takes place in June
(although in 2003, the first day of
the festival took place on the last
day of May). The festival is owned
and managed by Live Nation.
On 12
July it was confirmed via
Twitter, and the Download official
website that the festival would be
staged in between 8–10 June.
Limited early-bird tickets were put
on sale on 15 July. It will be the
tenth edition of the festival. It
was announced on 10 November via BBC
Radio 1 that Metallica would
headline the main stage on the
Saturday and also that they would be
playing their self titled album in
its entirety. The next day Black
Sabbath were announced to headline
the main stage on Sunday 10 June,
closing the festival.[48] On 18
November, The Prodigy was announced
as the headliner for Friday 8 June.
On January 16th , Soundgarden,
Chase & Status, You Me At Six,
Tenacious D, Machine Head, Trivium,
Lamb of God, Devin Townsend Project,
DevilDriver, Little Angels, Anthrax,
Ugly Kid Joe and August Burns Red
were all confirmed to perform. Over
the month of February, 20 bands were
announced, including Friday and
Sunday's second stage headliners;
Slash (with vocals provided my Myles
Kennedy) and Rise Against
respectively.
On 19
March, Europe, Emmure, Stellar
Revival, Firewind, Theory of a
Deadman and seven more bands were
added to the lineup. Black Spiders,
Four Year Strong, Lower Than
Atlantis, Rival Sons, Kobra and the
Lotus, Skindred, Kids in Glass
Houses, Gallows, Six Hour Sundown,
Refused, The Union, Lawnmower Deth,
My Passion, Silent Descent, Don
Broco, No Americana, Edguy, Porter
Robinson, T. Mills and Fearless
Vampire Killers were added to the
lineup on 3 April.
Five
Finger Death Punch were scheduled to
perform on Sunday on the Main Stage
between DevilDriver and Kyuss Lives!
but on 5 April they pulled out due
to "logistic difficulties". Anthrax,
who were initially set to play on
the Zippo Encore Stage, were brought
up to the main stage (later dubbed
the Jim Marshall stage) due to Five
Finger Death Punch's cancellation.
T. Mills was scheduled to perform on
Saturday on the Red Bull stage but
pulled out in May. Porter Robinson
was also scheduled to play on the
same stage on the Friday, but on May
29th, he pulled out due to the
recording of a new album. He was
replaced by Voodoo Six. Furyon and
Toby Jepson were also added to the
lineup.
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