With the scorching sunshine and incredible heat of last year’s Download hard to beat, this year’s Festival is well on its way to top what was considered THE rock music event of the year, with another 22 bands added to the bill.
An incredible array of rock and metal acts, each representing the many different facets of the genre, will perform at this year’s Download Festival, which takes place at the mecca of rock and metal, Donington Park. Sunset Strip legends Steel Panther, whose Third Stage performance last year was one of the many festival highlights, Donington veterans Saxon - who will be performing their Wheels of Steel album in its entirety to celebrate the album’s – and Donington’s - 30th anniversary, Finnish rock outfit HIM – who played the first ever Download in 2003 and have since played another three; and the often-compared to AC/DC Aussie rockers Airbourne, who return to Download for the second time.
Also confirmed are New Jersey prog-rockers Coheed & Cambria, US glam-metallers Cinderella (returning to Donington for the second time having played Monsters of Rock in 1987), Welsh wonders The Blackout, Florida rockers A Day To Remember, Alaskan metallers 36 Crazyfists, mathcore heroes Dillinger Escape Plan, new Roadrunner signings Dommin and Taking Dawn, Boston metalcore stars Unearth, Nottingham rockers Lawnmower Deth, Metal Blade death metallers Job For A Cowboy and Whitechapel, and the Pennsylvanian metalscore band August Burns Red.
Plus San Diego glam metallers Ratt, ex-Evanescence and American Idol combo We Are The Fallen, brutal thrash metallers Rise To Remain, metal supergroup HellYeah, and San Fransciscan heavy rock act Y&T – another Monsters of Rock veteran band, who played Donington in 1984 along with this year’s Download headliners AC/DC.
These acts all join AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine, Aerosmith plus more in what’s shaping up to be one hell of a way to celebrate 30 years of Donington rock history at this year’s Download Festival.
Day Tickets for Download 2010 will go on sale 9am Tuesday 23 March and can be purchased from www.downloadfestival.co.uk , each day priced at £75. Weekend and camping tickets plus limited RIP packages are also still available.
The Monsters of Rock festival was established in 1980 by promoter Paul Loasby and the late Maurice Jones who died last year, originally created as a day-long summer festival dedicated to rock and heavy metal bands. Over the years it was quickly established as the annual event for the UK hard rock fraternity. It was destined to become a British music tradition, with Download taking over the reigns in 2003 - 30 years on and Download has become the UK’s premier rock festival.
