Download Festival reveals more artists for 2023 line-up

By Neil Greenway | Published: Fri 21st Apr 2023

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Download Festival 2023

Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th June 2023
Donington Park, Donington, Derbyshire, DE74 2RP, England MAP
from £345 (Weekend with 5 Night Camping)
Daily capacity: 111,000

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL REVEALS
EVEN MORE ARTISTS FOR 2023 LINE-UP
 

CANCER BATS | CASEY | CHERRY BOMBS 

HAKEN | HUNDRED REASONS | PUNK ROCK FACTORY 

PUSCIFER | REDHOOK | RITUALS  

SNAYX | STATE CHAMPS | STATIC DRESS  
 

STAGE SPLITS ALSO ANNOUNCED
 
20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

  • Line-up for record-breaking year gets even bigger
  • Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon and Slipknot headline a remarkable year for the UK’s biggest rock festival
  • Stage splits announced
  • Limited amount of day tickets remain

The line-up for Download Festival’s 20th anniversary has expanded with a further 12 names added to the weekend’s programme. All stage splits for the four days have also been revealed. The special anniversary edition, taking place for the first time over four days on 8-11 June 2023 at Donington Park, will now feature Cancer Bats, Casey, Hundred Reasons, Puscifer, State Champs and more, alongside headliners Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot and Metallica, who will perform two headline sets with no repeat songs. The very last tickets are available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk.
 
Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan will be bringing Puscifer to Download for the very first time, Canadian hardcore punk band Cancer Bats will also be delivering the noise this year and Hundred Reasons are back with their first new music in 15 years and will be playing Download for the first time since their 2006 debut.
 
Further additions include the recently reunited Welsh outfit Casey, as well as New York pop punk heroes State Champs, daredevil rock’n’roll darlings Cherry Bombs, and Welsh TikTok heroes Punk Rock Factory, who are rightfully graduating to a Main Arena performance after their memorable set in The Village last year.
 
The line-up continues with theatrical post-hardcore band Static Dress, South coast punk rockers SNAYX, Australian alt four-piece RedHook, and Kerrang! Radio The Deal competition winners Rituals, who will open The Avalanche Stage with their blisteringly heavy Newcastle metal.
 
These further additions continue to add to an incredible line-up for the very special anniversary edition of Download Festival. Stage splits have been confirmed and can be found at www.downloadfestival.co.uk.

Tickets

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Tickets are on sale, priced as follows for 2023 (including fees):-
adult weekend with 5 nights camping: £345 (Weekend 5 Night Camping)
adult weekend with 3 night camping: £243
adult weekend (no camping): £65
day tickets:from £87.50
car parking: £21
Campervan: £170

Teenagers aged 13 - 15 must purchase an adult ticket and be accompanied by a Parent or Guardian aged 18 years or over.

The greatest rock and metal festival of all time, Download Festival, announces 44 new names and the day splits for 2023’s mammoth line-up. New names include the blistering Halestorm, Alter Bridge, Neck Deep, Bob Vylan, Carcass, Five Finger Death Punch, Jinjer, Coheed and Cambria, Electric Callboy, Hot Milk and The Amity Affliction, who will join the celebration of Download’s 20-year legacy at the hallowed grounds of Donington Park across four days over 8-11 June 2023. They join headliners Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon and Metallica, who will deliver two massive no-repeat performances. Weekend and day tickets are now on sale, as well as a very limited amount of camping tickets and new VIP options: www.downloadfestival.co.uk.
 
The biggest annual gathering of the rock and metal tribes will be joined by 44 new names, including the Grammy-winning Halestorm, hard rock frontrunners Alter Bridge, heavy metal behemoths Five Finger Death Punch, MOBO’s first ever Best Alternative Music Act Bob Vylan, Welsh pop punk kings Neck Deep, Las Vegas glam rockers Palaye Royale, and effervescent partycore group Electric Callboy.
 
Joining them at the hallowed grounds will be Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil with his grindcore extreme metal side project Empire State Bastard, metalcore veterans Hatebreed, progressive rock icons Coheed and Cambria, death metal heroes Carcass, throwback rap rockers Joey Valence & Brae, dual-fronted power pop rockers Hot Milk, bright Leeds metalcore outfit Caskets and frenetic Yorkshire-based rock group Dinosaur Pile-Up. Californian punk veterans The Bronx will also be returning to Donington, along with metalcore legend and former lead vocalist of The Dillinger Escape Plan Greg Puciato, and LA metal heavyweights Bad Wolves.
 
Download Festival continues to showcase the best of the international metal scene, with Dutch symphonic metal group Epica, Ukrainian progressive metal band Jinjer, globe-trotting Mongolian warriors The Hu, Australian metalcore heroes The Amity Affliction, Scandinavian pop-rockers Smash Into Pieces, Swedish metal ringmasters Avatar, French gothic electronic musician Perturbator, incendiary Canadian heavy rock duo Cleopatrick, Mexican metal sisters The Warning and French dark-synth pioneer Carpenter Brut all on the bill.
 
Alongside them will be Maryland stoner metal monarchs Clutch, pop punk reformists Mom Jeans, two-time Polaris Music Prize nominees PUP, doom-trap purveyor Mimi Barks, contemporary heavy metallers Spirit Adrift, Essex alt-rock quintet Tigress and Hunstanton’s finest, Deaf Havana. And from the bloodline that brought us the late Eddie Van Halen, we have Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH.
 
Last but not least, we have fist-pumping doom outfit Green Lung, the theatrically bleak A.A. Williams, eloquent emo-infused alt-rockers Beauty School, ostentatious Wyoming metallers Antisaint, punishing riff purveyors Undeath and Metallica protégés Taipei Houston. Not to mention that  Fearless Vampire Killers are back, and their flair for the dramatic and vaudevillian is sure to charm the Donington crowds.
 
Aside from bands, Download Festival are pleased to announce a brand new Camping Plus five-day ticket, which includes toilets and showers in a private campsite. For those who already have a four or five day camping tickets, upgrades are available. For something a little different, a selection of new and unique accommodations have been added to The Rock Retreat including The Skoolie, Fire Truck and Billy The Snail.
 
For more information on VIP options, camping tickets, weekend and day tickets, please go to: www.downloadfestival.co.uk.

 

 

ANNOUNCED TODAY (FULL LINE UP POSTER HERE):

JUST ANNOUNCED (A-Z)

 

A.A. WILLIAMS
ALTER BRIDGE
ANTISAINT
AVATAR
BAD WOLVES
BEAUTY SCHOOL
BOB VYLAN
CARCASS
CARPENTER BRUT
CASKETS
CLEOPATRICK
CLUTCH
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
DEAF HAVANA
DINOSAUR PILE-UP
ELECTRIC CALLBOY
EMPIRE STATE BASTARD
EPICA
FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
GREEN LUNG
GREG PUCIATO
HALESTORM
HATEBREED
HOT MILK
ICE NINE KILLS
JINJER
JOEY VALENCE & BRAE
MAMMOTH WVH
MIMI BARKS
MOM JEANS
NECK DEEP
PALAYE ROYALE
PERTURBATOR
PUP
SMASH INTO PIECES
SPIRIT ADRIFT
TAIPEI HOUSTON
THE AMITY AFFLICTION
THE BRONX
THE HU
THE WARNING
TIGRESS
UNDEATH


 
DAY SPLITS
 
THURDAY
 
METALLICA
A.A. WILLIAMS, ALTER BRIDGE, CASKETS, FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, HALESTORM, JINJER, MAMMOTH WVH, MIMI BARKS, MOM JEANS, PERTURBATOR, THE BRONX, TIGRESS.
 
FRIDAY
 
BRING ME THE HORIZON
ARCHITECTS, AS DECEMBER FALLS, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, AVIVA, BRUTUS, CARPENTER BRUT, CRAWLERS, ELVANA, EMPIRE STATE BASTARD, EPICA, EVANESCENCE, FIXATION, GWAR, HOT MILK, INGESTED, NECK DEEP, NOVA TWINS, PENDULUM, PUP, PUPIL SLICER, SMASH INTO PIECES, STAND ATLANTIC, TAIPEI HOUSTON, THE BLACKOUT, THE WARNING, UNDEATH, VV, WITCH FEVER, WITHIN TEMPTATION
 
SATURDAY
 
METALLICA
ALEXISONFIRE, ANTISAINT, BAD WOLVES, BAMBIE THUG, BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT, BLACKGOLD, BOB VYLAN, CARCASS, CLUTCH, COHEED AND CAMBRIA, DEAD SARA, DEAF HAVANA, DISTURBED, ENOLA GAY, FEVER 333, GREG PUCIATO, ICE NINE KILLS, KID BOOKIE, KID KAPICHI, LAKE MALICE, MONUMENTS, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, MUNICIPAL WASTE, nothing,nowhere., PLACEBO, POLARIS, SIMPLE PLAN, SPIRIT ADRIFT, STRAY FROM THE PATH, THREE DAYS GRACE
 
SUNDAY
 
SLIPKNOT
AVATAR, BEAUTY SCHOOL, BEHEMOTH, BLIND CHANNEL, BLOODYWOOD, CLEOPATRICK, CRASHFACE, DINOSAUR PILE-UP, ELECTRIC CALLBOY, GHOST, GRAPHIC NATURE, GREEN LUNG, HATEBREED, HAWXX, I PREVAIL, JAZMIN BEAN, JOEY VALENCE AND BRAE, LORNA SHORE, MOD SUN, PALAYE ROYALE, PARKWAY DRIVE, SET IT OFF, SiM, SOEN, SOUL GLO, TAYLOR ACORN, TERROR, THE AMITY AFFLICTION, THE DISTILLERS, THE HU, THE MEFFS, TOUCHE AMORE
 
 
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