Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot, And More Announced For Download 2023

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Download Festival have announced the first set of bands for the upcoming 20th anniversary celebrations next year. For the first time in the festivals history, the event will feature four days of music with some massive acts set to grace the Donington stages in 2023.

The festival will see Metallica returning for the first time since Download’s 10th anniversary a decade ago, this time around the band will be set to play two headline sets across the weekend with NO SONGS REPEATED! Also returning – following their recent album release of ‘The End, So Far’ – to headline the festival will be Slipknot.

The festival is also set to see a new headliner join the ranks on the main stage, with British Rockers Bring Me The Horizon also announced to headline the event.

But the announcement doesn’t stop there with the like of Alexisonfire, Architects, The Distillers, Disturbed, Evanescence, Ghost, I Prevail, Parkway Drive, Pendulum, Placebo, Simple Plan, Ville Valo, and Within Temptation.

Elsewhere the festival is set to see (In alphabetical order): As December Falls, Asking Alexandria, Aviva, Bambie Thub, Beauty School, Dropout, Behemoth, Black Gold, The Blackout, Blind Channel, Bloodywood, Brutus, Crashface, Crawlers, Dead Sara, Elvana, Enola Gay, Fever 333, Fixation, Graphic Nature, GWAR, Hawxx, Ingested, Jazmin Bean, Kid Bookie, Kid Kapichi, Lake Malice, Lorna Shore, The Meffs, Mod Sun, Monuments, Motionless In White, Municipal Waste, nothing, nowhere., Nova Twins, Polaris, Pupil Slicer Seether, Set It Off, SiM, Soen, Soul Glo, Stand Atlantic, Stray From The Path, Taylor Acorn, Terror, Three Days Grace, Touché Amoré, and Witch Fever

Phew! What a massive first announcement! Over 60 acts!

The wait is over! Your first line up announcement for the Download 20th Anniversary is right here – and we’ve got OVER 60 acts for you, including your headliners! 🔥

Presales now open, tickets on sale everywhere Thursday 10th Nov 10am https://t.co/A7Jj7pXQ1c #DL20 pic.twitter.com/PoUsWIzdfl

— Download Festival (@DownloadFest) November 7, 2022

Tickets for the 20th Download will be available from 10 a.m. on Thursday (10th November) here (Affiliate Link)!