Download Festival’s 20th anniversary has become a double celebration, as today the festival sells out, marking 2023 as the fastest-selling year of all time. Day, weekend and camping tickets have been snapped up by fans eager to celebrate an incredible 20 years for the legendary festival. The special anniversary edition, taking place for the first time over four days on 8-11 June 2023 at Donington Park, will feature headliners Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot and Metallica, who will perform two headline sets with no repeat songs.
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PREVIEW: DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL UK 8th-11TH JUNE 2023
by Carina Lawrence
Download Festival 2023 will mark their special 20th-anniversary edition, their biggest and longest festival yet, being four days instead of the usual three and taking place on 8-11th June 2023. Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon, and Slipknot headline a great year for the UK’s biggest rock festival, and Metallica will perform two headline sets with no repeat songs. As expected, their 20th-anniversary celebration boasts a mega line-up for a record-breaking year for the festival, as 2023’s event is the fastest-selling Download ever. Here are some reasons this year’s event is breaking records and some bands we are particularly excited to see added to the anniversary bill!
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BURNING WITCHES Unleashes Third New Single, “World On Fire” + Official Music Video
Swiss heavy metal outfit BURNING WITCHES sets the “World On Fire” with the diabolical third single taken from their upcoming fifth studio album, The Dark Tower, out this Friday via Napalm Records! “World On Fire” gets the listener’s pulse pumping immediately due to the rising tension of flashy guitar work, before melodic six-string solos unite with unbeatable guitar onslaughts and sophisticated drum attacks – underlining conjuring vocal lines that call out for an evening zombie dance!
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Judas Priest Announce UK Tour March 2024
The mighty Judas Priest today announce a six date UK tour which will kick off on March 11th, 2024, at Glasgow Ovo Hydro. Special guests on the tour include Saxon and Uriah Heep.
The hardest working band in metal completed 2022 with an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Earlier in the year they embarked on a rescheduled world tour in support of the bands 50th Anniversary, this included shows in the US, Europe, Mexico and South America.
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SOEN Announce “Memorial European Tour”
The provocative, imperious and engaging Swedish-based metal group SOEN are set to hit the roads again this autumn across Europe and the UK. Kicking off the tour in Odense, Denmark on 20th September, SOEN will then proceed to bring their juggernaut to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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MALEVOLENCE announce UK & European tour for winter 2023
Malevolence, the UK’s reigning champs of contemporary metal, have been unstoppable since unleashing their latest album Malicious Intent. Now they’re ready to conquer the world, starting with an epic tour across the UK and Europe this winter! Brace yourself for a ferocious evening with thrash metal giants Sylosis, rising underground contenders Guilt Trip, and Aussie monsters Justice for The Damned.
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