Here’s a list of every band currently announced for Download Festival 2023. There are already loads of bands confirmed – and still plenty more to come. We’ll update this list as more bands are announced.
As it stands, we only know which days the main stage headliners will be playing. We’re expecting the organisers to confirm the full details of the day splits soon.
There are now just over 100 days until the festival gets underway. It’s a special 20th-anniversary edition of Download this summer with four days of headline slots, taking place from Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th June – and as usual, you can turn up and start partying from Wednesday with a 5 nights camping ticket.
Metallica will headline both Thursday and Saturday nights with the promise of no repeated songs between the two sets, with Bring Me The Horizon on Saturday and Slipknot seeing out the festival on Sunday night.
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Main Stage Headliners
- Thursday: Metallica
- Friday: Bring Me The Horizon
- Saturday: Metallica
- Sunday: Slipknot
Major Bookings
- Alexisonfire
- Architects
- The Distillers
- Disturbed
- Evanescence
- Ghost
- I Prevail
- Parkway Drive
- Pendulum
- Placebo
- Simple Plan
- V V
- Within Temptation
All other artists
- As December Falls
- Asking Alexandria
- Aviva
- Bambe Thug
- Beauty School Dropout
- Behemoth
- Blackgold
- 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
- Stray From The Path
- Taylor Acorn
- Terror
- Three Days Grace
- Touche Amore
- Witch Fever
Poster
Tickets and prices
Download tickets are expected to sell out soon, but as it stands, they’re still available. Follow the Ticketmaster links below to get yours:
- 5 nights camping (Wednesday to Monday)
- Ticketmaster – £345 adult £135 child
- 5 nights eco-camping (Wednesday to Monday)
- Ticketmaster – £345 adult £135 child
- 4 nights camping (Thursday to Monday)
- Ticketmaster – £325 adult £129.60 child
- 4 nights eco-camping (Thursday to Monday)
- Ticketmaster – £325 adult £129.60 child
- 4 days non-camping (Thursday to Sunday)
- Ticketmaster – £300 adult £118.80 child
Other ticket types are available from this page on the Download website.
Day tickets are not yet on sale – they’ll be available once the full details of which bands play on which day are announced.
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Matt Eachus
Sarah Koury
Download Festival
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