Download Festival has added some new names for its 2024 edition, and it includes a thrash metal icon, some goth-punk heroes and an imminent Eurovision star. Joining the likes of Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, Queens Of The Stone Age, Limp Bizkit, Machine Head and more will be Slayer legend Kerry King - who, along with his various own dates across the summer, will be reuniting with Slayer for some US festival appearances - alongside histrionic Southampton goth-punks Creeper, nu gen starlet and Irish Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug, English punk duo Soft Play (formerly Slaves) and UK alt-rockers Lowlives. Also added to the bill are New York punk rockers Bayside, Welsh trio Florence Black and Bristol alt-metallers Mallavora.
Download 2024 takes place June 14-16 at Donington Park, England, with headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold joined by Limp Bizkit, Royal Blood, The Offspring, Tom Morello, Enter Shikari, Sum 41, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, BABYMETAL, Pantera, Fear Factory, While She Sleeps, Billy Talent, Black Stone Cherry, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, The Struts, Of Mice & Men, Busted, Wheatus, Electric Callboy, Bowling For Soup, The Used, Mr Bungle, Bad Omens, Dying Fetus, The Black Dahlia Murder, Those Damn Crows, Holding Absence, Silverstein, Charlotte Sands, Thy Art Is Murder, Fit For A King and more.
