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.
2023 Artist Lineup
- A.A. Williams
- Alexisonfire
- Alter Bridge
- Antisaint
- Architects
- As December Falls
- Asking Alexandria
- Avatar
- Aviva
- Bad Wolves
- Bambie Thug
- Beauty School
- Beauty School Dropout
- Behemoth
- Blackgold
- Blind Channel
- Bloodywood
- Bob Vylan
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Brutus
- Carcass
- Carpenter Brut
- Caskets
- Cleopatrick
- Clutch
- Coheed And Cambria
- Crashface
- Crawlers
- Dead Sara
- Deaf Havana
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- Disturbed
- Electric Callboy
- Elvana
- Empire State Bastard
- Enola Gay
- Epica
- Evanescence
- Fearless Vampire Killers
- Fever 333
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Fixation
- Ghost
- Graphic Nature
- Green Lung
- Greg Puciato
- GWAR
- Halestorm
- Hatebreed
- HAWXX
- Hot Milk
- I Prevail
- Ice Nine Kills
- Ingested
- Jinjer
- Joey Valence & Brae
- Lorna Shore
- Mammoth Wvh
- Metallica
- Metallica
- Mimi Barks
- Mom Jeans
- Motionless In White
- Neck Deep
- Nova Twins
- Palaye Royale
- Parkway Drive
- Pendulum
- Perturbator
- Placebo
- Pup
- Pupil Slicer
- Slipknot
- Smash Into Pieces
- Spirit Adrift
- Stand Atlantic
- Stray From The Path
- Taipei Houston
- The Amity Affliction
- The Blackout
- The Bronx
- The Distillers
- The Hu
- The Warning
- Tigress
- Undeath
- VV
- Witch Fever
- Within Temptation