30 More Acts Announced For Download 2016

Download festival have been on a rampage tonight! Not only were ten bands announced on the BBC Radio One show at 8 o clock, at 9 o clock, Download themselves announced even more bands including: Shinedown, Halestorm, Twin Atlantic, Skrillex, Don Broco, Skindred and Attila.

2016 is going to be an amazing year for festivals and Download sounds like it's going to be amazing.

Ten New Download 2016 Announcements from BBC Radio One

On BBC Radio One at 8 o clock tonight (December 6th), Daniel P Carter announced a handful of bands that will be performing at Download festival 2016.

The first band was announced at 20:02 and it was Neck Deep.

Second band was announced at 20:05 which was Billy Talent

At 20:11, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes were announced as the third act. It was way back in 2011 when Frank Carter graced the stage by himself at Download .

The fourth announcement that came from Daniel P Carter was at 20:15 and it was a band called Horror.

As 20:17 struck, Beartooth were the fifth band to be announced which caused a lot of excitement from fans of both Beartooth and the festival itself

Architects were announced at 20:20 and the last time that Architects went to Download was 2015, so they're lucky to be playing two years in a row. 

Back in 2014, Amity Affliction played Download Festival and now at 20:26, it was announced that they were to play again for the 2016 festival.

At 20:33 Carter announced that Ghost would also be playing.

Gojira were then the nine band to be announced at 20:36.

And last but not least, the tenth band was announced at 20:41 and it was Down.

It looks like Download festival 2016 is going to be immense! These ten bands that have been announced this evening have made the line-up even better and more exciting. Plus, what a range of bands so it's going to entice more of an audience in.

Well done, Download. Well done.

Download Announce One More Band for 2016 Festival

Lawnermower Deth are the next band to be announced for Download festival 2016.

They self-confirmed their appearance on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Show and since it seems as if many people haven't heard of them, then I'm guessing a little YouTubing of the band is going to be underway over the next few months.

Download festival 2016 will also be featuring Gutterdammerung. Never heard of it? It's a rock and roll/film/gig concept from Belgian-Swedish, Bjorn Tagemose. It will feature some of the biggest rock names on the planet.

This year, it will follow a traditional 1920's Hollywood classical movie. It will feature a live rock band and special effects from the film being exploded all around the audience whilst the band is playing.

The film is going to be set in a world where God has saved the world from all sin by taking the Devil's 'Grail of Sin' (The Evil Guitar) away from Earth. The Earth is now pure. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is not allowed. Vicious (Iggy Pop) - who is a "punk-angel" in heaven - looks down upon Earth, sees that it's boring and sends The Evil Guitar back to Earth. Henry Rollins plays an evil puritan priest and tries to manipulate a girl into getting and destroying the guitar. Whilst on the journey to locate the Devil's Grail of Sin, she encounters some of the world's most evil rock and roll individuals.

The cast include: Iggy Pop, Grace Jones, Henry Rollins, Jesse Hughes, Lemmy, Tom Araya, Volbeat, Mark Lanegan, Joshua Homme, Justice, Slash and Nina Hagen.

Sounds awesome doesn't it? It's very different and very cool...

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New Download Festival 2016 Announcements

Download Festival have announced on their official twitter page more acts for the 2016 festival.

We already knew that Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden were headlining the weekend of rock but now we've just found out the bands that are going to be joining them.

One the Friday joining Rammstein is Korn and Motorhead. Playing alongside Black Sabbath is Deftones and Megadeath and on the Sunday, joining Iron Maiden is Nightwish and Disturbed.

I know that Download have said "more to come soon" but how much longer do we have to wait... We're getting impatient to see how many more awesome bands they're going to add to their line-up. 

Dates: 

Friday 10th June, 

Saturday 11th June, 

Sunday 12th June 

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