Download 2025

[Spiral_Low]

Re: discussion on who Download missed out on -

 

I think Download have a good set of headliners, I just think the support bill is really poor. Personal taste though of course. 

 

Deftones and Judas Priest doing their own shows whilst Download books Steel Panther once again? Hmmmmmm.....

[TWY2911]

26 minutes ago, Kfogg2019 said:

This has been pretty much my exact feelings about it. It was pretty obvious and clear who to expect as main headliners for festivals like rock am ring/hellfest ect what has turned out spot on for the most part. 

We have shared alot of the bands from rock am ring because it makes a lot of sense and financially makes sense so we get impressive names for both eventdfs but for me personally I think the main stage headliners bar one feels underwhelming and subpart in a significant way again IMO.

 

I love Korn I've seen them live a few times and they are great however I don't buy for absolutely no reason at all them being elevated to main stage headliners at this stage again just my opinion.

 

My feelings with sleep token going straight to the top billing mainly comes from not understanding why they are soh not bad music at all but I didn't think it was game changing again my opinion. 

 

It's stunning that Andy and the download team have refused to elevate and give the push to every single band throughout the entirety of the festival but chose to do it with all three of the days and two of them being smaller names than normal.

 

Korn seem to be headlining almost every Rock/Metal festival in Europe 

 

Yes I understand that just because they headline other similar sized European festivals it doesn't mean that they are big enough in the UK but Hellfest have also given them the bump up after being a second stage headliner/main stage sub before so I don't understand why people are refusing to believe that they haven't grown in popularity recently (like Nu Metal in general)

 

Sleep Token's ticket sales speak for themselves you're just deluded if you don't think they are big enough now 

[TWY2911]

4 minutes ago, Spiral_Low said:

Re: discussion on who Download missed out on -

 

I think Download have a good set of headliners, I just think the support bill is really poor. Personal taste though of course. 

 

Deftones and Judas Priest doing their own shows whilst Download books Steel Panther once again? Hmmmmmm.....

 

Deftones and Judas Priest doing their own shows doesn't rule them out 

 

It makes them unlikely but it could be that Download are waiting for their shows to sell out before announcing them 

 

It's normally only headliners that need to be exclusive (but Download would obviously rather their other logo bands be exclusive too) 

[SweetJesus]

Let's be honest, there is a lack of headliners in 2025, every festival have a problem. Neither one festival next summer have a "wow" effect on me, even Hellfest is "meh".

I finally managed to get tickets to Hellfest and I must admit, I'm dissapointed with their lineup...

Edited Tuesday at 03:39 PM by SweetJesus

[FloopFiller]

Yeah, first Hellfest lineup I can remember that didn’t have me insanely envious of those going. Still enough there to make a great weekend out of it, but missing the huge wow factor of the last couple of years at least, and the headliners are pretty piss weak.

[Andre91]

I mean, there’s an entire podcast episode with someone that talks through why KoRn are a suitable headliner, guys 👀

[northernangel]

7 hours ago, Spiral_Low said:

Re: discussion on who Download missed out on -

 

I think Download have a good set of headliners, I just think the support bill is really poor. Personal taste though of course. 

 

Deftones and Judas Priest doing their own shows whilst Download books Steel Panther once again? Hmmmmmm.....

It's quite funny as I think the support bill is better than the headliners apart from Green Day obviously.

[northernangel]

15 hours ago, Andre91 said:

I mean, there’s an entire podcast episode with someone that talks through why KoRn are a suitable headliner, guys 👀

Didn't realise that was you, I couldn't speak like that I don't think. I don't however think that suitability has ever been the question. I do think putting Judas Priest before Metallica is incorrect though but that's my opinion and I would would disagree that without Korn we would have other heavier bands. I may not like heavy to the level you do but what I do like isn't because of Korn from my take.

[FloopFiller]

22 hours ago, Spiral_Low said:

Re: discussion on who Download missed out on -

 

I think Download have a good set of headliners, I just think the support bill is really poor. Personal taste though of course. 

 

Deftones and Judas Priest doing their own shows whilst Download books Steel Panther once again? Hmmmmmm.....

Deftones heavily rumoured for Glastonbury and also seem to be doing a lot of other non-metal festivals this year that they wouldn’t usually be booked for so seems avoiding the usual places they play all the time is something they’re actively trying to do. Would probably expect them at Download ‘26 off the back of their new album. 

[LoadDown Podcast]

On 12/11/2024 at 10:50 AM, northernangel said:

Didn't realise that was you, I couldn't speak like that I don't think. I don't however think that suitability has ever been the question. I do think putting Judas Priest before Metallica is incorrect though but that's my opinion and I would would disagree that without Korn we would have other heavier bands. I may not like heavy to the level you do but what I do like isn't because of Korn from my take.

The bands @Andre91gave were chronological, not ranked by importance.