With the likes of Bring Me The Horizon, Architects and Parkway Drive commanding higher spots than ever at this year's history-making Download festival, the future of the event and its next generation of headliners (and potential headliners) are under more scrutiny than ever. Bring Me passed their test with flying colours on Friday night, and with their status atop the bill now surely secured for good, the gauntlet for other modern rock and metal bands looking to step up is officially thrown down.
One such band are Swedish party spooks Ghost; packing the perfect cocktail of clever gimmickry, a big-ass show, stadium-sized choruses and a charismatic leader in the form of Tobias Forge, they're fiercely backed to be the next band to break into Download headliner status, making today's set, closing out the festival's Opus stage, a crucial litmus test.
