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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 Dongington 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.
Headliners
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2018 Lineup
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Guns N’ Roses
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Marilyn Manson
- Parkway Drive
- Rise Against
- Baby Metal
- Alexisonfire
- Asking Alexandria
- Black Veil Brides
- Neck Deep
- Meshugga
- In This Moment
- The Hives
- Body Count
- Mayday Parade
- The Pink Slips
- Dream State
- WTSR
- Black Stone Cherry
- Shinedown
- Thunder
- Volbeat
- You Me At Six
- The Bronx
- Marmozets
- Jonathan Davis
- The Temperance Movement
- Thrice
- Hatebreed
- Tesseract
- Baroness
- Cancer Bats
- L7
- Dragonforce
- The Struts
- Monster Truck
- Boston Manor
- Greta Van Fleet
- Whiskey Myers
- Cradle Of Filth
- Inglorious
- Bury Tomorrow
- Kreator
- The Maine
- Stray From The Path
- Jamie Lenman
- Less Than Jake
- Employed To Serve
- Puppy
- Rolo Tomassi
- Miss May I
- SHVPES
- Thy Art Is Murder
- Higher Power
- Dead Cross
- Stick To Your Guns
- Bless The Fall
- The Bottom Line
- Emmure
- Plini
- Myrkur
- Knocked Loose
- All Them Witches
- Malevolence
- Wayward Sons
- Zeal & Ardor
- No Hot Ashes
- Gold Key
- The Hyena Kill
- Sun Arcana
- Tigress
- Death Blooms
- The Faim
- Turbonegro
- Corrosion Of Conformity
- Savage Messiah
- Myke Gray
- Von Hertzen Brothers
- Woes
- Powerflo
- Sleep Token
- Koyo
- Bad Religion
- Avatar
- Hell is for Heroes
- Andrew W.K
- CKY
- Nothing More
- Black Foxxes
- A
- Bad Cop / Bad Cop
- Culture Abuse
- Lawnmower Deth
- Starcrawler
- Ded
- Being As An Ocean
- Ecca Vandal
- Igorrr
- Loathe
- Kaiser Franz Josef
- Helpless
- Cellar Darling
- Anchor Lane
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