Loads more bands added to Download Festival line-up

Including Yellowcard, 36 Crazyfists, Like A Storm, Funeral For A Friend, The Qemists and Three Days Grace

Published 17th Apr 2015

Download Festival 2015 just keeps getting bigger and better!

Acts added to the sensational line-up include Yellowcard, 36 Crazyfists, Like A Storm, Funeral For A Friend, The Qemists and Three Days Grace.

Also on the bill are Antemasque, Blues Pills, Carcass, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Colour Of Noise, Corrosion Of Conformity, E Of E, Fidlar, Get Hot, Krokodil, Ltnt, Malefice, September Mourning, Suicidal Tendencies, The Lounge Kittens, The Struts, The Wild Lies, Upon A Burning Body and Von Hertzen Brothers.

The previously announced Hey! Hello have also moved from their Zippo Encore Stage slot to headline the fourth stage on Saturday.

Enthusing about Funeral For A Friend’s first appearance in four years, singer Matthew Davies-Kreye said: “Download is a festival very close to our hearts and we're thrilled to have been invited back this year alongside some amazing bands.”

Corrosion of Conformity’s Pepper Keenan said of the band’s along-awaited return: “Super stoked about getting back to download with COC, always an honour. It's been waaaaay to long. Up the f***in hammers!”

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Carcass commented: “We’re genuinely excited to finally get to play Castle Donington after all these years - maybe this time without rolling Landrovers and cracking shoulder bones on the journey there (a LONG story!).

“We hope to see some of you at a loose end, with no one better to watch at CARCASS’ ONLY UK festival appearance this Summer!”

The fresh wave of acts join the strongest Download festival line-up in years that boasts headliners Slipknot, Muse and KISS plus Judas Priest, Faith No More, Motley Crue, Slash, A Day To Remember, Five Finger Death Punch, Marilyn Manson, Black Stone Cherry, Enter Shikari, Thunder, Black Veil Brides, Andrew W.K. and many more.

Download Festival takes place at the spiritual home of rock, Donington Park, from Friday 12th to Sunday 14th June.

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