Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot, and Metallica will headline the lineup for Download 2023, set for 8-11 June 2023. Tonight, it was also announced that Metallica will play two unique sets on Thursday and Saturday in what promises to be an exhilarating 20th Anniversary weekend. @downloadfest @metallica

Download 2023 will be an epic four-day celebration of Download's 20-year legacy, and their first line-up announcement will be made on Monday, 7 November 2022. @downloadfest Photo: @stuartisteed_photography

Download 2022. Massive Wagons interview with Adam Thistlethwaite. @massivewagons @adam__mw @montysewellmusic You have to congratulate Massive Wagons on an amazing show, just brilliant as always. #Download

Download 2022 draws to a close. Skillet, with a twenty-year discography to fit within the bookends of a shorter festival time slot, manage to squeeze in those crowd-pleasers and garner a great buzz for it. @skilletmusic Photo: @stuartisteed_photography @downloadfest @montysewellmusic

Download Festival 2022. MetalTalk reports from Download. The Last Internationale, Alestorm, Tremonti and Volbeat on Sunday 12 June.@downloadfest Photo: @thelastinternationale by @stuartisteed_photography @montysewellmusic

Download Festival 2022. MetalTalk reports from Download. @downloadfest Photo: @ironmaiden by @stuartisteed_photographyIron Maiden, Megadeth, Funeral For A Friend, Deftones on Sarurday 11 June 2022. @montysewellmusic

Download Festival 2022. MetalTalk reports from Download. @downloadfest Photo: @bush by @stuartisteed_photographyDirty Honey, The Raven Age, Those Damn Crows, Black Label Society, Bush and Shinedown, Sarurday 11 June. @montysewellmusic

KISS say goodbye, but Download is back and bigger than ever. After three years where a full festival didn't happen, it's great to be back in these hallowed grounds of Donington.MetalTalk coverage of Friday at Download 2022. @DownloadFest @pmonkhouse1

Download 2022. Airbourne. Donington.A rip-roaring extravaganza that saw beer thrown, sweat dripped, and an unfathomable abundance of energy shot out from the stage.

Heavy Metal fan Ian Wood has taken to social media to ask for help in attending this year's Download festival and is offering festival and camping tickets for someone to give him a push around the venue. @downloadfest

On 5 June 2004, 100,000 fans filled Donington Park for the annual Download Festival. Being the biggest summer music festival in England for Metal and Rock fans, the festival has attracted some...

Last weekend thousands of Metal fans gathered at Castle Donington for the annual Download Festival, this year headlined by Slipknot, Muse and Kiss.MetalTalk reported just as the event kicked off (here) on...

The Smashing Pumpkins have kept the Main Stage standard really high for Tool, opening to 'Zero' and sounding great while backed by a collection of giant inflatable dolls.Kahmel Farahani and Dany Jones 16th...

The action on the Zippo Stage is all done for the day now and what a way to wrap things up with Halestorm absolutely bringing the house down.Kahmel Farahani and Dany Jones 15th...