Download Festival will be rocking into 2022 with a packed line-up - their first full festival since 2019.
After last year’s Download Pilot, which paved the way for the return of live events, organisers are pulling out all the stops with a gargantuan line-up of the world’s most exciting bands in rock, pop punk, hardcore and metal.
New names for the biggest first festival of the year were announced today, joining the epic bill originally planned for 2020, which was cancelled due the pandemic.
Headliners KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clylro will be taking to the stage at Donington Park, the spiritual home of rock in Leicestershire after the two-year delay.
The line-up also includes A Day to Remember, Deftones, Korn and Lacuna Coil.
Fourteen new acts have been added including Skindred, Yonaka, Kid Brunswick, Bimini and Dana Dentata.
The three-day festival will take place on June 10 to 12.
Iron Maiden, hailed as one of the greatest live acts of all time, will return to Donington to headline on Saturday night, in what will be one of only two UK festival shows in 2022, while the legendary KISS will storm the stage on Friday night to perform their only UK show of the summer.
After their headline set in 2017, Scottish rock titans Biffy Clyro will also be making their highly anticipated return to headline the festival on Sunday night, showing off tracks from ‘A Celebration of Ending’, which topped the UK charts in 2020, and their most recent studio album, the critically acclaimed ‘The Myth of Happily Ever After’.
Skindred frontman Benji Webbe said: "Playing the Download pilot after being locked down for a year and a half was an amazing experience so being invited back to our favourite festival and spiritual home to play alongside the likes of KISS and Maiden is a dream come true. Plus we have some amazing rockin’ new tunes which we cannot wait for you all to hear.”
Brighton rock band YONAKA also made a splash at last year’s Download Pilot, and that was just the beginning, as they’ll be causing chaos once again this year. Frontwoman Theresa Jarvis said: "Aghhhh Download! Some of us have been going since we were 14 so it’s an absolute pleasure to be performing there again. The energy is always amazing and such an exciting line-up of music."
Drag sensation Bimini, who rose to fame on Ru Paul’s Drag Race and released their punk non-binary anthem God Save This Queen last year, will make their Download debut.
Tickets are now on sale.
For full line-up and tickets head to downloadfestival.co.uk
