Photo Credit: Matt Eachus/Download Festival
The Scene
It's loud. It’s crazy. Download isn't pretty and the metal fans that make the annual pilgrimage to the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park wouldn't have it any other way. The largest rock and metal festival in the UK has featured genre legends like Faith No More, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slipknot, Motörhead, and System of a Down.
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2012 Artist Lineup
Metallica
The Prodigy
- Anthrax
- Anti-Nowhere League
- As I lay Dying
- August Burns Red
- Biffy Clyro
- Billy Talent
- Black Label Society
- Black Sabbath
- Black Veil Brides
- Broken
- Butcher Babies
- Cancer Bats
- Chase and Status
- Corey Taylor
- Devil Driver
- Devin Townsend Project
- Dropkick Murphy’s
- Emmure
- Europe
- Fear Factory
- Firewind
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Fozzy
- Ginger Wildheart
- Gun
- Halestorm
- Heaven’s Basement
- James Cleaver Quintet
- Killswitch Engage
- Kopek
- Kyuss Lives!
- Lamb of God
- Little Angels
- Machine Head
- Mallory Knox
- Marmozets
- Megadeth
- Metallica
- Nightwish
- NoFX
- Opeth
- Periphery
- Reckless Love
- Red, White, and Blues
- Rise Against
- Rise to Remain
- Saxon
- Sebastian Bach
- Shinedown
- Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy
- Soil
- Soundgarden
- Steel Panther
- Stellar Revival
- Sylosis
- Tenacious D
- Terrorvision
- The Defiled
- The Prodigy
- The Quireboys
- The Safety Fire
- The Testament
- Theory of a Deadman
- Trivium
- Turbonegro
- Turbowolf
- Ugly Kid Joe
- Upon A Burning Body
- We Are The Ocean
- While She Sleeps
- You Me At Six
