The Offspring, Status Quo, Trivium For Download 2014
Plus Steel Panther, While She Sleeps, Letlive and many more
Download Festival has added a wave of fresh acts to next summer’s line-up!
Pop punk heroes The Offspring, rock veterans Status Quo, metal titans Trivium, spandex-clad mock-rockers Steel Panther and Sheffield’s prodigal sons While She Sleeps lead the charge of the new additions.
Also heading to Donington are Swedish metallers In Flames, melodic death-metallers The Black Dahlia Murder, the mighty Blessthefall, Japanese electro-metal exports Crossfaith, Californian soul punks Letlive and metalcore merchants Miss May I.
Enthusing about returning to Download for the first time since 2008, Offspring guitarist Noodles said: “It's been six years since we first played Download and we can't wait to return and rip it up. Stoked!”
Francis Rossi from Status Quo beamed: “When Status Quo once again take to the Donington stage, it will have been 32 years since we headlined the Monsters of Rock Festival on August 21st 1982.
“That year saw the Falklands War, the launch of the Commodore 64, Aston Villa winning the European Cup and the raising of the Mary Rose.
“You might say a lot has changed since then but we are still rocking, and still playing the Quo hits. See you there.”
Trivium bassist Paolo Gregoletto said of the band’s very special set: “We are thrilled to be returning to Download for our 5th time.
“In honour of both the festival and fans that embraced Trivium first, we have decided to play our 2005 set list from start to finish, preceded by a set of some our other festival favourite tunes.
“However, to make it all the more unique, we will be playing this ‘one time only’ set on the Red Bull Stage, the most intimate and intense setting possible for revisiting this special moment in time.
“We have had some of our best experiences as a band on the hallowed grounds of Donington, and this is shaping up to be one of our most exciting ones yet! Do not miss it!”
The newly confirmed acts join headliners Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park and Aerosmith, main supports Rob Zombie, Fall Out Boy and Alterbridge and, due to phenomenal public demand, Dying Fetus.
Download Festival takes place at Donington Park from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th June 2014. Tickets are on sale from kerrangradio.co.uk/tickets now.