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'Final Fantasy 14's The Primals will be at Download Festival 2026' sounds like something I just made up — but I promise you it's true

Final Fantasy 14's in-house band, The Primals, are heading to the UK for Download Festival 2026 — and I promise I've not just made that up.

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"Maybe it’s time." Dave Grohl might finally be ready to let Foo Fighters do something they've never done in their 30 year career

Could 2027 see Foo Fighters tick off another bucket list dream?

Louder

‘It’s all fan-driven. People are in absolute raptures’: how mysterious masked rockers Sleep Token took over metal

They just headlined Download festival and their latest album went to No 1 in the US and UK – so why is Britain’s biggest metal band in a generation so hated by some?

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Here's what Sleep Token played at their first ever Download headline set (videos inside)

Sleep Token made history by headlining Download festival for the first time - here's what they played

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Download festival rockers told to take off smartwatches after moshpits spark emergency alerts

Police received nearly 700 false ‘collision’ 999 calls from Leicestershire heavy metal event in 2023

The Guardian - UK

These are the festival beauty essentials I packed for Glastonbury

From dry shampoo to SPF and cordless hair tools, don’t forget these little luxuries

The Independent UK

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hone their dream to be as potent a live band as Download festival favourites Vengaboys

Newcastle's finest Pigs x 7 deliver a masterclass in stoner/doom/psych riffathons on the release day for their new album Death Hilarious

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“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

The rise of the of the 21st century’s most unexpected metal sensations

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Download fans complain of thefts as Frank Carter has gold chain swiped during performance

Exclusive: Fans say they had phones and money snatched from them while they enjoyed live music at the Leicestershire festival, while singer Frank Carter had his necklace stolen mid-performance

The Independent UK

10 bands that defined Download 2024

From historic Download debuts to returning heroes, surprise sets to stage dives in the mud, these are the 10 performances that defined an unforgettable weekend at Donington

Metal Hammer

"Wes Borland still dresses like a hard rock Grace Jones and Fred Durst still holds 80,000 people in the palm of his hand." Limp Bizkit show Download why they remain metal's greatest party band

Download bears witness to why no one does it quite like Limp Bizkit

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Download festival review – the rock fest’s most cursed year ever

Plagued by rain, technical issues and boycotts – as well as by some distinctly non-metal headliners – the weekend is practically a washout, despite some virtuoso shredding and fiery melodeath lower down the bill

The Guardian - UK

Barclays suspends sponsorship of Download, Latitude and Isle of Wight festivals

Move follows protests from bands and fans over the bank providing financial services to defence companies supplying Israel

The Guardian - UK

“We will not take part in an event whose sponsor profits from facilitating a genocide.” Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Pest Control boycott Download festival due to sponsor Barclays investing in companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel

Six bands withdraw from Download 2024 in solidarity with the Palestinian people

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Watch Norse shamans Heilung’s mesmerising performance of Traust at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre

You can also see the ‘Amplified History’ group live in person on a European tour that stops at the Download and Glastonbury festivals

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"Topics like necrophilia are just kind of ‘whatever’ at this point." Gore-loving death metal veterans Dying Fetus are bored of trying to shock people

We chat to Dying Fetus growler/guitarist John Gallagher about death metal, South Park and that legendary hashtag

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Want to attend Download, Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, ArcTanGent or Bearded Theory festival for free? Here's how you can do it, while also helping others

If you're interested in free access to a range of UK festivals in exchange for volunteering, Oxfam wants to hear from you

Evening Standard

When is Download Festival? 2024 Limp Bizkit join line-up for metal event

Download Festival is coming back once again for a weekend packed with moshpits and rock icons

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This footage of Slipknot making 90,000 people jump up at Download shows they seem to be doing just fine

After a turbulent week, videos emerging from Slipknot's triumphant headline set at Download show they are putting their troubles behind them

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Watch: hundreds of fans started circle pitting around Parkway Drive's Winston McCall in the middle of their Download set and it looks amazing

Have you ever seen fans circle pitting AROUND a singer before?!

Evening Standard

Download Festival at Donington Park: this 20th anniversary of the rock-fest was a smasher

From Metallica to Nova Twins, the rock get-together showcased heavy metal’s changing of the guard

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Download headliners Metallica make 'lifeline' donation to local homeless charity

Thrash icons donate £40,000 to homeless charity based near Download festival site in Leicester, England

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Bring Me The Horizon's spectacular Download set proved it's time to let the next generation of headliners in

Bring Me The Horizon finally got to headline Download - and they made the most of it with the most spectacular stage show of the weekend

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Residents living near the Download site at Donington are complaining that the world's biggest rock festival is too noisy

In the most British news of the week, Download festival's neighbours aren't chuffed that their ears are hurty-wurty sore now because LOUD MUSIC

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Kirk Hammett recalls Joey Jordison's onstage tears before playing Enter Sandman with Metallica at Download

Metallica's Kirk Hammett relives playing Download 2004 with Joey Jordison for a forthcoming oral history of the UK festival

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