Download Festival 2026 announces over 90 bands

Download Festival 2026 has announced more than 90 bands on its blockbuster line-up, including headliners Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park.

The 23rd Download Festival takes place on the hallowed turf of Donington Park from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14th June 2026, and the names on the eclectic line-up span the full spectrum of rock, metal, punk, emo, hardcore, alternative and classic rock.

Having triumphed in the special guest slot at Download Festival 2024, nu metal heroes Limp Bizkit make the leap to Friday night headliners at next year’s extravaganza.

Rock legends Guns N’ Roses top the bill on Saturday night, eight years on from their last Donington appearance and 20 years after first headlining Download in 2006.

Linkin Park have been bestowed with the huge honour of closing the weekend on the Sunday night. The band headlined four times between 2004 and 2014, and this will be their first since their reformation with Emily Armstrong on co-lead vocals.

Other acts confirmed across the weekend include Halestorm, Those Damn Crows, Mastodon, Rage Against the Machine legend Tom Morello, Bad Omens, Cypress Hill, Trivium, Architects, Electric Callboy, Bush, Feeder, The Pretty Reckless, Tailgunner, Wolfgang Van Halen’s band Mammoth and Keanu Reeves’ band Dogstar.

Also on the bill are Pendulum, The All-American Rejects, BABYMETAL, Ice Nine Kills, Tom Morello, Black Veil Brides, Drowning Pool, Periphery, letlive., Static-X, Spineshank, RØRY, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Magnolia Park, TX2, AS IT IS, Story Of The Year, Ash, Sleep Theory, Melrose Avenue, P.O.D, Hollywood Undead, Scene Queen, We Came As Romans, Mammoth, Kublai Khan TX, Bloodywood and loads more.

You can check out the line-up in alphabetical order below.

The DLXXIII line-up was announced at a very special launch event at the Barbican this evening, where the worlds of fantasy, legend and rock and metal combined as the VIP audience witnessed the line-up unfold on an epic scale.

The specially created short film premiered in the cinema at the Barbican and introduced The Apex Rings, created for our headliners by Download in conjunction with The Great Frog.

The immersive launch included string quartets, fortune tellers and more, all giving a taste of the District X experience and what is to come for Download XXIII.

With many more acts and surprises still to be announced, tickets to Download Festival 2026 are on sale now right here.

The Download Festival 2026 line-up so far:

LIMP BIZKIT (Friday headliners)

GUNS N’ ROSES (Saturday headliners)

LINKIN PARK (Sunday headliners)

ANKOR

ARCHITECTS

AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS

AS IT IS

ASH

BABYMETAL

BAD OMENS

BEHEMOTH

BLACK VEIL BRIDES

BLOOD INCANTATION

BLOODYWOOD

BOUNDARIES

BUSH

CATCH YOUR BREATH

CAVALERA

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY

CYPRESS HILL

DECAPITATED

DIE SPITZ

DINOSAUR PILE-UP

DOGSTAR

DRAIN

DROWNING POOL

EGO KILL TALENT

ELDER

ELECTRIC CALLBOY

FEEDER

GATECREEPER

HALESTORM

HEADWRECK

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD

HOLYWATR

ICE NINE KILLS

IMMINENCE

ivri

JAMES AND THE COLD GUN

KUBLAI KHAN TX

LAKE MALICE

LAKEVIEW

LANDMVRKS

LAST TRAIN

letlive.

LOWEN

MAGNOLIA PARK

MAMMOTH

MASTODON

MELROSE AVENUE

MOUTH CULTURE

NASTY

NATIVE JAMES

NEVERTEL

P.O.D

PALEFEACE SWISS

PENDULUM

PERIPHERY

PUSSYLIQUOR

RAIN CITY DRIVE

RETURN TO DUST

RØRY

SCENE QUEEN

SELF DECEPTION

SET IT OFF

SILENT PLANET

SLAY SQUAD

SLEEP THEORY

SNOT

SOCIAL DISTORTION

SOUTH ARCADE

SPINESHANK

SPITTING GLASS

STATIC-X

STORY OF THE YEAR

SWEET PILL

SWEET SAVAGE

TAILGUNNER

THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS

THE PLOT IN YOU

THE PRETTY RECKLESS

THE PRETTY WILD

THORNHILL

THOSE DAMN CROWS

thrown

TOM MORELLO

TRIVIUM

TROPIC GOLD

TX2

unpeople

vianova

WAYSIDE

WE CAME AS ROMANS

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