Just over a month to go - Download announced twelve more bands!
Download 2023. Exactly 47 days before the first bands hit the Donnington stages, Download have announced another twelve bands, as well as the all important stage splits — although timings are still only conjecture, it’s clash finding time!
So. Without further ado, who’s confirmed to be joining Metallica, Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Alter Bridge, Disturbed, Parkway Drive, Evanescence, Five Finger Death Punch, I Prevail and the rest of the insanely packed 20th anniversary lineup?
Well, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s one-time ‘creative subconscious’ Puscifer make their long-awaited Download debut, playing just before Five Finger Death Punch on the Opus stage, along with recently reunited Hundred Reasons, fresh off the back of the release of ‘Glorious Sunset’, who are playing Download for the first time in 17 years. Thursday’s Opus Stage also has double c’s in the Canadian hardcore outfit Cancer Bats and the chaotic Cherry Bombs, while The Avalanche Stage gets the joyous Punk Rock Factory, as well as the newly announced stage headliners State Champs, directly before their sold out intimate show in Islington the following day. Rounding off the Thursday — for now, anyway — come Haken and Snayx on the Dogtooth stage.
The rest of the days only got one or two bands apiece, crammed as they already are — Friday gets the alt rock Australian band RedHook, who just the same day released debut album ‘Postcard From A Living Hell’, on the Avalanche stage, and Saturday gets Static Dress on the Opus Stage and Rituals, as well as the recently reunited Casey, on the Avalanche stage; Sunday, meanwhile, remains its own, immaculate and untouched self.
Without the timings being released it’s hard to be sure of which heartbreaking decisions will need to be made on the day, but from the stage splits announced there looks to be some corkers — not wanting to drive up any pre-festival panic, but just… be prepared for some hard calls.
Find everything you need at https://downloadfestival.co.uk, including information regarding day tickets; though, if you want weekend tickets, you’re flat out of luck — they’re sold out. Twickets and other reputable ticket resale sites are your best bet for what’s set to be the biggest Download yet — don’t sleep on whatever’s left to scrounge!
