From First To Last, The Fall Of Troy, Beat Union, Stone Gods, Saxon and Between The Buried And Me are among artists that have been added to the ever-increasing Download 2008 festival bill this week.
"We are beyond excited to get to play at Download this year and share the stage with some of our favourite bands," says From First To Last frontman Matt Good. "We can't wait to see all our new and old friends!"
"I'm chomping at the bit to finally play Download," adds The Fall Of Troy's drummer Andrew Forsman. "I've heard so many great things about the festival. I'm also looking forward to drinking a few beers!"
Also playing will be Finger Eleven, Big Linda, The Haze, Galvatrons, Last Supper, Blackhole, Rolo Tomassi, Malefice, Fighting With Wire, Mexicolas, Caimbo, Glamour Of The Kill, Cry for Silence, Sons Of Albion and Army Of Freshmen.
In related news, the festival organisers have announced that this year's site will be at a slightly different location from previous Download events. Kerrang! can reveal that this year the Second Stage (sponsored by Tuborg) will be open air, increasing the capacity in order for more fans to enjoy bands like Simple Plan, HIM and Cavalera Conspiracy. There will also now be direct and quicker access to all three stages, all car parking will now be within the Donington Park site, and the new position of the Main Stage - within a natural amphitheatre with surrounding trees - should make the experience of seeing Judas Priest, Kiss, Lostprophets and more... even more epic!
The Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival will be headlined by: Kiss, The Offspring and Lostprophets.
The full list of other bands on the bill so far is as follows:
36 Crazy Fists, A Day To Remember, Ace Frehley, Airbourne, Alesana, Alter Bridge, Amon Amarth, Animal Alpha, Apocalyptica, Army Of Freshmen, Ash, August Burns Red, Beat Union, Between The Buried And Me, Biffy Clyro, Big Linda, Black Stone Cherry, Black Tide, Blackhole, Bleeding Through, Brigade, Bullet For My Valentine, Caimbo, Canterbury, Cavalera Conspiracy, Children Of Bodom, Chiodos, Coheed & Cambria, Comeback Kid, Cry for Silence, Disturbed, Elliot Minor, Exit Ten, Fighting With Wire, Fightstar, Finger Eleven, From First To Last, Galvatrons, Glamour Of The Kill, Haunts, HIM, Hostile, In Flames, Incubus, Invasion, Jimmy Eat World, Job For A Cowboy, Jonathan Davis (Korn), Judas Priest, Kid Rock, Kids In Glass Houses, Kill Hannah, Last Supper, Madina Lake, Malefice, Mexicolas, Motorhead, Municipal Waste, Pendulum, Rise Against, Rival Schools, Rolo Tomassi, Rose Tattoo, Saxon, Seether, Simple Plan, Slaves To Gravity, Sons Of Albion, Stone Gods, Testament, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Devil Wears Prada, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Fall Of Troy, The Haze, The Subways, The Wildhearts, Throwdown, Trigger The Bloodshed, Twin Method, Valient Thorr, Within Temptation and Zebrahead.
The Download festival takes place the weekend of June 13 to June 15. Tickets are on sale now. Prices are as follows: a full weekend ticket: £130, standard camping: £20, camper van: £40, family zone camping: £20, lockers: £11, parking £10 in advance or £15 on the day. There will be a variety of ticket packages available to buy, including the RIP packages (a VIP package) from £315. For Club or VIP Experience packages, please call 020 7009 3484 to discuss your requirements.
Disabled customers can call 0121 767 9729 to discuss accessibility arrangements. Please note, disabled customers will be provided with one free ticket for their helper, where required. Should additional helper tickets be required, please call the disabled access ticket line on 0121 767 9729 or email access@downloadfestival.co.uk
Posted by jimbob | May 5, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply to this
Woah
From First to Last....
They were the last band I was expecting to see this year.
The line up keeps getting better this year. But it's a shame there isn't as many metal bands as previous years.
Posted by Steph | May 5, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply to this
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhstupid mother f8*ker !!!!!! what !!!!!!!!???im so annoyed i thought theyd be better bands sorry but thats my opinion oh dear
Posted by sarah | May 5, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply to this
The fall of troy im seeing a few days before.. not wasting money to go to d/l
well done live nation another blow into the lungs of the download fest
when you look at that long list of bands most of them struggle to sell out a barfly
i aint complaining like a like a lot of bands on there
but its £140 man to see bands you would spend bowt a fiver to see headlining.
theres only a few main bands like the rest are utter shit n some of them i just aint heard of
you know you might as well chuck a nuclear bomb in and end the download festivals life now instead of making it suffer some more years
donninton should make a new metal fest and start again but like i say in abiut 6 years that will crumble just like download has done.
Posted by Ryan Devlin | May 5, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply to this
again another massive blow
well done live nation another blow into the lungs of the download fest
when you look at that long list of bands most of them struggle to sell out a barfly
i aint complaining like a like a lot of bands on there
but its £140 man to see bands you would spend bowt a fiver to see headlining.
theres only a few main bands like the rest are utter shit n some of them i just aint heard of
you know you might as well chuck a nuclear bomb in and end the download festivals life now instead of making it suffer some more years
donninton should make a new metal fest and start again but like i say in abiut 6 years that will crumble just like download has done.
Posted by Ryan Devlin | May 5, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply to this
wtf!!!!!!!
considering before this annoucement all of the comments near enuff were sayin machine head or avenged sevenfold and then this? wtf kerrang/live nation/who ever fuckin else has there say! you need big named bands!!!
Posted by DeAkS | May 5, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply to this
Considering download is only 38 days away the rest of the bands that will be announced will not be big name bands.
If there is a big name band then it will have to be a major coup to do so.
As for paying £140 for a bands that will only cost a fiver to see otherwise.........you'd have to be a moronic tool to pay that money just to see the one band.
the £140 is for the whole weekend, the 50+ bands that are playing .
I bought my ticket when the origional 4 were announced and if I had the money I'd have bought it before then..........cause Download is an experience, and even if the bands weren't great you could still have fun.
I've not heard of any of these bands ^^^ but I'm looking forward to hearing what their like.
Saxon and Between The Buried And Me! Two completely different, but equally great bands.
Couldn't care less about the others but so what! This festival gets better and better in my opinion.
Just need High On Fire, Ministry and Meshuggah now - unlikely I know, but we can hope!
Posted by Peter | May 6, 2008 9:02 AM | Reply to this
?
One Question....
WHO?
Posted by ThatGirl. | May 6, 2008 1:55 PM | Reply to this
shit
to b quite true full this year is fucking shit the worse line up in years . now a lot of people we b like yah this is 4 me . but 4 me when i look at years gone by this a fucking kick in the teeth 4 what dwn load aka monster of rock stood 4 . there r only a few bands i wanna c like him in flame s . but to b fair you could wait for their uk tours later in the year . im fucking glad i bought a weekend ticket for reading . so wot dizzie rascal is there but fucking slipknot rage n metallica playing sorry live nation n dwn load you fuck up this year i thought last year sucked . ha nothing to this year . . i tell u what there is like 6 weeks to go why dont you scrap the line up n start again pretty quick .
. oh dwn load fans if n1 wants slipknot or rage or trivium 2 play they bwont b . because trivium r working on the 3 album slipknot only doing to uk dates n rage . r only doing 2 uk dates . but keep looking to c when there uk tours . it will b worth waitng . 4 insteed of this pussy fucking line up .
Posted by robert | May 6, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply to this
the last post
was that in english? It's just taken me 5 minutes to work out what the fuck you're supposed to have written. what a tard!
Posted by Mr T | May 6, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply to this
the last post
if itook u 5 min u more of fucking prick 4 trying . may be it was as clear as i put but at least i can understand . 4 takeing the piss out of me hope ur catch some thing u live to fucking regret like dick rot. or some 1 fucking but raps u
Posted by robert | May 6, 2008 6:26 PM | Reply to this
the last post
if it took u 5 min to read ur more of a fucking cunt 4 trying . at least i can understand . n so what it meant not read as clear as when i was typing it . im not very good with spelling so dont take the piss cunt face im not the only 1 out their who has trouble spelling so fuck off . if ur takeing the piss out of me then ur takeing the piss out of a lot of people . hope u catch some thing fucking natsy like dick rot . or u get but rapped or sum evil shit happens . u aint a true rock to 2 take rhe piss like that r u so fuck off
Posted by robert | May 6, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply to this
the last post
if it took u 5 min then ur more of a cunt . for trying so what if it does not read as clear as i typed it . i have a bit of trouble with my spelling s fuck off and dont take the piss im not the . only 1 who has trouble . if ur takeing the piss out of me . then ur takeing the piss out of a lot of people who of trouble so fuck u . u aint a true rock fan to b mockeing another rock fan rock fans dont mock each other . hope ur dick falls of or ur get but rapped . or some evil shit happens to u . cunt face
Posted by robert | May 6, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply to this
dear mr t . for staring on me for no reason n takeing the piss out of me when i did not fo shit to u hope u ger dick rot but before that heres is what i meant to say
if ur talking 2 me then go n fuck ur self cuntfce . . wat i was saying was is dwnload again put some shit bands in . n may be dthe last great line up was 08 . and reading ave got it spot on this year how fucking glad i bought a ticket 4 ragtm. and metallica . and some 1 has allready said on this fotm how some of the bands here are only worth a 5 pound to see not a 140 .pound 4 the weekend . and may b some of the bands would go on tour in the uk and would be worth seeing on the own tour that is . well that if u like some of the bands. so go n fuck ur self . 4 have in a dig . it not nice to take rhe piuss out of people 4 no reasson . plus i neve stared on u . but belive if u want i fucking will . . oh did u mean retard . b cos u said tard . wot that is that another people use to take the piss out of u . fuck off cunt .
Posted by robert | May 6, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply to this
loz i read that as well . u wud have thought saxon wud have been higher up the bill as well . never meant . it got some good bands but still a shit line up may be not ort ticket value . we c still like 6 weeks to go
Posted by robert | May 6, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply to this
dear mr t . for staring on me for no reason n takeing the piss out of me when i did not do shit to u hope u ger dick rot but before that heres is what i meant to say
if ur talking 2 me then go n fuck ur self cuntfce . . wat i was saying was is dwnload again put some shit bands in . n may be dthe last great line up was 08 . and reading ave got it spot on this year how fucking glad i bought a ticket 4 ragtm. and metallica . and some 1 has allready said on this fotm how some of the bands here are only worth a 5 pound to see not a 140 .pound 4 the weekend . and may b some of the bands would go on tour in the uk and would be worth seeing on the own tour that is . well that if u like some of the bands. so go n fuck ur self . 4 have in a dig . it not nice to take rhe piuss out of people 4 no reasson . plus i neve stared on u . but belive if u want i fucking will . . oh did u mean retard . b cos u said tard . wot that is that another people use to take the piss out of u . fuck off cunt .
Posted by robert | May 6, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply to this
what the fuck
i didn't say eny of them !!!!!!!!
Posted by becky | May 6, 2008 6:25 PM | Reply to this
why
aint it a bit wiered they r more emo or punk more than metal bands at this years download the only band who is gd in this years line up are bullet and cob y cant they ask slipknot or a7x or cradle of filth not emo or punk bands its ment to be a metal festival not emo or punk go 2 reading and leeds for punk or emo and y is slipknot and a7x at reading and leeds its fuckin wiered
Posted by micheal | May 6, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply to this
OMG!
in the whole the line up as of yet sucks quite a bit...
theres good band like Lostprophets, Fightstar, fall of troy about 9 more.....
But Reading is far better this year and I got ticket (y) so winner (a)
i like him, hes bin really gd at leeds fest da past 2 years but wanna no if he will b welcomed at download lol???
Posted by Glen | May 8, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply to this
wooo
well done download! you've managed to make the best festival of the year shit!
Posted by Jack | May 8, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply to this
another disappointing announcment
this is the first year im goint to download cz after the last one i thought it was worth it
atm im fink leeds next year
cum onnnn get avenged sevenfold, machine head etc!
Posted by steph | May 8, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply to this
jesus
:/ theve now moved fftl to the main stage as well as sum other bands ive never herd of dnt get me wrong i lvfftl but tht means the probabilty of there being big names like avenged or killswitch have decreased :/
im thinking a day ticket at the mo for sunday cz i dnt think its worth the weekend ne more
Posted by paul | May 8, 2008 11:25 PM | Reply to this
jesus
:/ theve now moved fftl to the main stage as well as sum other bands ive never herd of dnt get me wrong i lvfftl but tht means the probabilty of there being big names like avenged or killswitch have decreased :/
im thinking a day ticket at the mo for sunday cz i dnt think its worth the weekend ne more
Posted by paul | May 8, 2008 11:26 PM | Reply to this
jesus
:/ theve now moved fftl to the main stage as well as sum other bands ive never herd of dnt get me wrong i lvfftl but tht means the probabilty of there being big names like avenged or killswitch have decreased :/
im thinking a day ticket at the mo for sunday cz i dnt think its worth the weekend ne more
Posted by paul | May 8, 2008 11:26 PM | Reply to this
jesus
:/ theve now moved fftl to the main stage as well as sum other bands ive never herd of dnt get me wrong i lvfftl but tht means the probabilty of there being big names like avenged or killswitch have decreased :/
im thinking a day ticket at the mo for sunday cz i dnt think its worth the weekend ne more
Posted by paul | May 8, 2008 11:26 PM | Reply to this
Lethal Bizzle
Haha! Why is Lethal Bizzle Playing Download!!!!! haha
Posted by Taylor | May 9, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply to this
From First To Last, The Fall Of Troy, Beat Union, Stone Gods, Saxon and Between The Buried And Me are among artists that have been added to the ever-increasing Download 2008 festival bill this week.
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