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Download Festival 2023 sells out in record time

If you were looking to buy a ticket for this year’s Download Festival, then that boat has sailed, as the June event is sold out. Download is celebrating its 20th Anniversary, and it is now a double celebration with the news that weekend, day and camping tickets have now completely sold out in record time.

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.

Joining them are Alter Bridge, Five Finger Death Punch, Architects, Evanescence, Disturbed, Placebo, Alexisonfire, Parkway Drive, Ghost and recently announced Bad Religion, Cancer Bats, Casey, Hundred Reasons, Puscifer and State Champs.

You can read our 2022 coverage here.

For lucky fans with tickets, this will be the ultimate rock and Metal celebration.

Download – Thursday

Apex Stage:

Metallica, Alter Bridge, Halestorm, Jinjer, Mammoth Wvh

Opus Stage:

Five Finger Death Punch, Puscifer, Hundred Reasons, The Bronx, Cancer Bats, Cherry Bombs

The Avalanche Stage Hosted By Kerrang! Radio:

State Champs, Mom Jeans, Punk Rock Factory, Fearless Vampire Killers, Tigress

Dogtooth Stage:

Perturbator, Haken, A.A. Williams, Caskets, Mimi Barks, Snayx

Download – Friday

Apex Stage:

Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Pendulum, Neck Deep, Hot Milk, Nova Twins, Stand Atlantic

Opus Stage:

Evanescence, Within Temptation, Asking Alexandria, Epica, Elvana, Smash Into Pieces, The Warning

The Avalanche Stage Hosted By Kerrang! Radio:

Vv, Pup, The Blackout, Crawlers, Demob Happy, As December Falls, Redhook, Fixation

Dogtooth Stage:

Carpenter Brut, Gwar, Empire State Bastard, Brutus, Ingested, Undeath, Pupil Slicer, Witch Fever, Taipei Houston

Download – Saturday

Apex Stage:

Metallica, Disturbed, Alexisonfire, Clutch, Ice Nine Kills, Fever 333, Polaris,

Opus Stage:

Placebo, Simple Plan, Three Days Grace, Motionless In White, Carcass, Municipal Waste, Stray From The Path, Static Dress

The Avalanche Stage Hosted By Kerrang! Radio:

Coheed And Cambria, Deaf Havana, Bob Vylan, Nothing,Nowhere., Kid Kapichi, Casey, Blackgold, Rituals

Dogtooth Stage:

Monuments, Greg Puciato, Spirit Adrift, Enola Gay, Bambie Thug, Beauty School Dropout, Lake Malice, Kid Bookie, Antisaint

Download – Sunday

Apex Stage:

Slipknot, Parkway Drive, I Prevail, Behemoth, The Hu, Lorna Shore, Bloodywood

Opus Stage:

Ghost, Bad Religion, Palaye Royale, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Avatar, The Amity Affliction, Sim, Blind Channel

The Avalanche Stage Hosted By Kerrang! Radio:

Electric Callboy, Set It Off, Mod Sun, Cleopatrick, Jazmin Bean, Joey Valence & Brae, Taylor Acorn, Crashface

Dogtooth Stage:

Hatebreed, Touche Amore, Terror, Soen, Green Lung, Soul Glo, The Meffs, Hawxx, Graphic Nature, Beauty School

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