Download Festival 2026 promises to be another huge one, with three huge acts returning to Donington Park after last year's festival successfully debunked the "there are no more headliners" theory with three first-time bill-toppers.
Download XXIII might not match the scale of 2023's mammoth 20th-anniversary celebration, which provided a full four days of music instead of the usual three, but if that event proved anything – and the two festivals held since have certainly proved it again – it's that Download can still pull a massive crowd if the right bill is put in place.
Here's everything we know about Download Festival 2026.
When is Download festival 2026?
Download festival will take place on the weekend of June 12 - 14, 2026, with gates opening on June 10.
Where is Download Festival 2026?
Download festival will take place at its long-traditional home of Donington Park, Derbyshire, the former home of the iconic Monsters Of Rock festival.
Where can I get tickets for Download Festival 2026?
Early bird options have been exhausted, but a wide range of ticket packages are available from Ticketmaster.
Who is playing Download festival 2026?
Headlining Download 2026 on Friday night will be nu metal icons Limp Bizkit, who've appeared at the festival multiple times but never headlined – indeed, this is their first time headlining a major festival in the UK. Saturday will play host to serial stadium fillers Guns N' Roses, who previously headlined in 2006 and 2018, while Sunday night will surely be a triumph for Linkin Park, as Emily Armstrong becomes the first female to front a headline act in Download's history.
The full line-up (announced so far) is below.
Download 2026 - confirmed acts
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
Guns N' Roses
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.
Limp Bizkit
Linkin Park
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
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