Download Festival adds 20 new bands & Kerrang! Fresh Blood to host The Avalanche Stage
Last updated 31st Mar 2017
Just over two months before the hallowed gates of Donington Park open, Download Festival has made a series of exciting new announcements.
New for 2017, we’re proud to confirm that the Sleeping With Sirens, Simple Plan and Dillinger Escape Plan headlined Avalanche Stage will be hosted by Kerrang!’s Fresh Blood.
Our very own Alex Baker enthuses: “Right now, there is an undeniable, electric excitement about new music in the air and as soon as we saw the new Avalanche Stage we just had to be involved.
“It was clear from the get-go that one of The Avalanche Stage’s aims was to ensure that there was a dedicated space for these new bands within the festival.
“Download has always been amazing at supporting new talent and I’ve always admired them for that – so it was a no brainer to get as involved as much as humanely possible!”
On top of the Kerrang! Fresh Blood announcement, more than 20 acts have been added to the line-up across the weekend. They are as follows:
Blackwater Conspiracy
Blackwaters
Code Orange
Devin Townsend Project
Drones
Krokodil
Love Zombies
Machine Gun Kelly
Max & Igor Cavalera
Nothing More
Orange Goblin
Otherkin
Pertubator
Sick Puppies
Sikth
Suicide Silence
Tax The Heat
The Fallen State
The Raven Age
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown
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Devin Townsend said of playing the festival: "Download! Amidst a crazy year, we have been invited to play at one of my favourite festivals in the world. The band is rocking better than ever, and we are fired up to have some fun with you guys. We look forward to blowing the roof off the place. See you there!"
Headlined by System of a Down, Biffy Clyro and Aerosmith, other blockbuster acts confirmed for Download Festival include Prophets of Rage, Alter Bridge, A Day to Remember, Sum 41, Slayer, Opeth, Rob Zombie, Simple Plan, Sleeping With Sirens, Mastodon, Five Finger Death Punch and AFI.
Download Festival takes place from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th June 2017. Tickets are on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets now.
The full line-up in alphabetical order is as follows:
A Day To Remember | Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics | Aerosmith | Afi | Airbourne | Alestorm | Alter Bridge | Anathema | As It Is | Astroid Boys | Baroness | Basement | Biffy Clyro | Blackwater Conspiracy | Blackwaters | Blood Youth | Brutai | Casey | Clutch | Code Orange | Coheed And Cambria | Creeper | Crown The Empire | Dead Label | Dead! | Devildriver | Devilskin | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Drones | Every Time I Die | Exodus | Fallen State | Five Finger Death Punch | Fizzy Blood | Four Year Strong | Fozzy | God Damn | Good Charlotte | Greywind | Grove Street Families | Hacktivist | Holding Absence | I The Mighty | Idles | In Flames | Issues | Junior | Knuckle Puck | Krokodil | Kvelertak | Like A Storm | Lost Society | Love Zombies | Machine Gun Kelly | Mastodon | Max & Iggor | Ministry | Moose Blood | M O S E S | Motionless In White | Nothing More | Normandie | Northlane | Of Mice & Men | Orange Goblin | Otherkin | Opeth | Pertubator | Pierce The Veil | Prophets Of Rage | Red Fang | Red Sun Rising | Rob Zombie | Sabaton | She Must Burn | Sick Puppies | Sikth | Simple Plan | Slayer | Sleeping With Sirens | State Champs | Steel Panther | Stone Broken | Suicidal Tendencies | Suicide Silence | Sum 41 | System Of A Down | Tax The Heat | The Cadillac Three | The Charm The Fury | The Contortionist | The Dead Daisies | The Devil Wears Prada | The Dillinger Escape Plan | The Devon Townsend Project | The King Blues | The Lafontaines | The Lounge Kittens | The One Hundred | The Raven Age | The Story So Far | Touché Amoré | Trash Boat | Venom Prison | Wallflower | Wednesday 13 | Yonaka