The fresh wave of artists join a Download Festival line-up that’s headlined by Metallica, who play two totally different sets on the Thursday and Saturday, plus Bring Me The Horizon (Friday) and Slipknot (Saturday).

Williams, Antisaint, Beauty School, Bob Vylan, Carpenter Brut, Caskets, Cleopatrick, Deaf Havana, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Electric Callboy, Fearless Vampire Killers, Green Lung, Greg Puciato, Hot Milk, Ice Nine Kills, Jinjer, Joey Valence & Brae, Mimi Barks, Mom Jeans, Neck Deep, Palaye Royale, Perturbator, Pup, Smash Into Pieces, Spirit Adrift, Taipei Houston (featuring Lars Ulrich’s sons Myles and Layne), The Amity Affliction, The Bronx, The Warning, Tigress and Undeath. Newly confirmed today are Alter Bridge, Halestorm, Clutch, Mammoth WVH, Bad Wolves, Five Finger Death Punch, The HU, Epica, Carcass, Avatar, Coheed & Cambria and Empire State B-d – the grindcore extreme metal side project of Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil.Īlso performing across the four days are A.A. Download Festival has added 44 more acts to the line-up and revealed the day splits.Ĭelebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023, Download Festival takes place over four nights for the very first time from Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th June 2023.

Download festival 2022 dates