WWE teams up with Download Festival
Catch incredible wrestling alongside the music
Download Festival has announced that WWE will be bringing their NXT LIVE! tour to Donington Park and giving Downloaders an incredible show in the main arena.
Alongside headliners Iron Maiden, Rammstein and Black Sabbath, fans will be able to catch WWE NXT superstars Finn Balor, Bayley, Baron Corbin, Asuka, Shinsuke Nakamura, American Alpha tag team Jason Jordan and Chad Gable and more in a ring near the main stage.
Deputy Festival promoter Dave Bradley said: “Download Festival are beyond stoked to be showcasing WWE NXT at this year’s festival – rock and wrestling is the ultimate marriage, and we can’t wait to bring this festival exclusive to the Download fans. The greatest future WWE talent and the most infamous rock stars, together in one arena, for one weekend only. Bring it on!”
Tickets for Download Festival are on sale now from Kerrang! Radio tickets.
Here's how the rest of the Download Festival line-up is looking:
Friday 10 June Rammstein Korn The Amity Affliction Counting Days Gutterdämmerung Havok Killswitch Engage Skillet Twin Atlantic Fort Hope Alien Ant Farm Graveyard Heck Zoax Hill Valley High Kadavar Strange Bones All Time Low Glassjaw The Wildhearts Wierds
Saturday 11 June Black Sabbath Deftones Megadeth Architects Atreyu Beartooth Black Foxxes Dead! Milk Teeth Neck Deep Rival Sons Skindred Tesseract Lawnmower Deth NOFX SIXX:A.M. Bury Tomorrow As Lions Anti-Flag Escape the Fate Danko Jones Turbowolf Black Peaks Shvpes Municipal Waste Cane Hill Slaves (US) Wage War Palisades Reigning Days Royal Republic Scorpion Child Pennywise The Shrine Scattering Ashes
Sunday 12 June Iron Maiden Nightwish Disturbed Attila Billy Talent Breaking Benjamin Delain Don Broco Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes Ghost Gojira Halestorm Ho99o9 Saxon Shinedown Tremonti Amon Amarth Monster Truck Jane’s Addiction One Ok Rock Periphery Grand Magus Whiskey Myers Electric Wizard The King Is Blind Ashestoangels The Kenneths Muncie Girls Good Tiger The Temperance Movement Buck & Evans Devil You Know The Raven age Napalm Death
Bring it on!