Download Festival 2026 — Lineup, Bands & Setlists
Track Download Festival 2026 on Gigvault. 501 bands in the lineup across 7 editions.
Download Festival across the years
Gigvault documents 7 editions of Download Festival, from 2013 to 2026. The largest recorded line-up is 2023 with 121 acts. 501 different acts have played here in total, and 6 have come back more than once — Parkway Drive (4 editions), Architects (3 editions), Asking Alexandria (3 editions), Cancer Bats (3 editions), Electric Callboy (3 editions), Halestorm (3 editions).
Location
Castle Donington, United Kingdom
Headliners & confirmed acts
- A Day to Remember
- A Day To Remember
- A.A. Williams
- Airbourne
- Alcest
- Alexisonfire
- Alice in Chains
- Alien Ant Farm
Download Festival line-ups by year
Download Festival editions documented on Gigvault: 7 years between 2013 and 2026.
Full line-up per year:
- Download Festival 2026 line-up · 114 acts
- Download Festival 2025 line-up · 114 acts
- Download Festival 2024 line-up · 96 acts
- Download Festival 2023 line-up · 121 acts
- Download Festival 2018 line-up · 86 acts
- Download Festival 2016 line-up · 21 acts
- Download Festival 2013 line-up · 25 acts
Download Festival 2026 line-up
114 acts played Download Festival in 2026.
- A Day to Remember
- Ankor
- Annisokay
- Architects
- As Everything Unfolds
- As It Is
- Ash
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Babymetal
- Bad Omens
- Band-Maid
- Behemoth
- Black Veil Brides
- Blood Incantation
- Bloodywood
- Boundaries
- Bush
- Caskets
- Catch Your Breath
- Cavalera
- Cavalera Conspiracy
- Chaos A.D.
- Conjurer
- Corrosion of Conformity
- Creeper
- Cypress Hill
- Daughtry
- Decapitated
- Decessus
- Die Spitz
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- Dogstar
- Drain
- Drowning Pool
- Ego Kill Talent
- Elder
- Electric Callboy
- Feeder
- Frozemode
- Gatecreeper
- Guns N' Roses
- Halestorm
- Headwreck
- Hollywood Undead
- Holywata
- Holywatr
- Hot Milk
- Ice Nine Kills
- Iuri
- James and the Cold Gun
- Kublai Khan TX
- Lake Malice
- Lakeview
- Landmvrks
- Letlive.
- Limp Bizkit
- Linkin Park
- Lowen
- Magnolia Park
- Mammoth
- Marmozets
- Mastodon
- Melrose Avenue
- Mouth Culture
- Nasty
- Native James
- Neuerebel
- Obeyer
- P.O.D.
- Paleface Swiss
- Pendulum
- Periphery
- Private School
- Profiler
- Pussyliquor
- Rain City Drive
- Return To Dust
- Rory
- Scene Queen
- Scooter
- Self Deception
- Set It Off
- Silent Planet
- Silly Goose
- Slay Squad
- Sleep Theory
- Snot
- Social Distortion
- South Arcade
- Spineshank
- Spitting Glass
- Stampin' Ground
- 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
- The Primals
- Thornhill
- Those Damn Crows
- Thrown
- Tom Morello
- Trivium
- Tropic Gold
- TX2
- unpeople
- Vianova
- Wayside
- We Came as Romans
- Zero 9:36
Download Festival 2025 line-up
114 acts played Download Festival in 2025.
- Airbourne
- Alcest
- Alien Ant Farm
- Amira Elfeky
- Anaal Nathrakh
- Apocalyptica
- Archers
- Arrows In Action
- Artio
- Autumn Fires
- Awolnation
- Bad Nerves
- Bastardane
- Battlesnake
- Bex
- Bleed From Within
- Boston Manor
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Cattle Decapitation
- Cky
- Cradle Of Filth
- Crossfaith
- Currents
- Dayseeker
- Dead Poet Society
- Dead Pony
- Dirty Honey
- Don Broco
- Eagles Of Death Metal
- Eivor
- Elliot Minor
- Faetooth
- Fit For An Autopsy
- Gore
- Graphic Nature
- Green Day
- Harpy
- Hatebreed
- Holy Wars
- House Of Protection
- Jerry Cantrell
- Jimmy Eat World
- Jinjer
- Karen Dio
- Kids In Glass Houses
- Kim Dracula
- Kittie
- KoRn
- Lastelle
- Loathe
- Lolo
- LØlØ
- Lorna Shore
- Mallory Knox
- Mcfly
- Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
- Meshuggah
- Monthica
- Municipal Waste
- Myles Kennedy
- Neckbreakker
- Northlane
- Nothing More
- Novelists
- Opeth
- Orbit Culture
- Palaye Royale
- Polaris
- Poppy
- Power Trip
- President
- Riding The Low
- Rise Against
- Seven Hours After Violet
- Sex Pistols
- Sex Pistols (featuring Frank Carter)
- Shinedown
- Sikth
- Sim
- Sleep Token
- Smash Into Pieces
- Sophie Lloyd
- Spiritbox
- Spiritual Cramp
- Split Chain
- Starset
- Static Dress
- Steel Panther
- Survive Said The Prophet
- Svalbard
- Sylosis
- Teen Mortgage
- The Darkness
- The Funeral Portrait
- The Ghost Inside
- The Haunt
- The Meffs
- The Scratch
- The Southern River Band
- Trophy Eyes
- Turbonegro
- Twin Atlantic
- Underside
- Unpeople
- Unprocessed
- Venus Grrrls
- Vola
- Vower
- Vowws
- Weezer
- Whitechapel
- Windhand
- Within Temptation
- Zetra
Download Festival 2024 line-up
96 acts played Download Festival in 2024.
- Alien Weaponry
- All Them Witches
- Alpha Wolf
- Asinhell
- Atreyu
- Aviva
- BABYMETAL
- Bambie Thug
- Bayside
- Billy Talent
- Biohazard
- Black Stone Cherry
- Bleed From Within
- Bowling For Soup
- Brand Of Sacrifice
- Busted
- Calva Louise
- Celestial Sanctuary
- Cemetery Sun
- Code Orange
- Corey Taylor
- Counterparts
- Creeper
- Crystal Lake
- Defects
- Dream State
- Dying Fetus
- Dying Wish
- Electric Callboy
- Elvana
- Enter Shikari
- Erra
- Escape The Fate
- Fall Out Boy
- Fear Factory
- Fit For A King
- Florence Black
- Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
- Funeral For A Friend
- Gel
- Guilt Trip
- Halocene
- Hanabie.
- HEALTH
- Heilung
- Heriot
- Holding Absence
- Hoobastank
- HotWax
- Imminence
- Karnivool
- Kerry King
- Knife Bride
- Limp Bizkit
- Lord Of The Lost
- Machine Head
- Make Them Suffer
- Missio
- Mr. Bungle
- Ne Obliviscaris
- Of Mice & Men
- Oxymorrons
- Pantera
- Parkway Drive
- Pest Control
- Polyphia
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- Royal Blood
- Royal Republic
- Scene Queen
- Scowl
- Shadow Of Intent
- Silverstein
- Slaughter To Prevail
- Soft Play
- Speed
- Storm
- Sum 41
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- The Blue Stones
- The Callous Daoboys
- The Hunna
- The Offspring
- The Struts
- The Used
- Those Damn Crows
- Thy Art Is Murder
- Tigercub
- Tom Morello
- Underside
- Until I Wake
- Urne
- Wheatus
- While She Sleeps
- Zebrahead
- Zulu
Download Festival 2023 line-up
121 acts played Download Festival in 2023.
- A.A. Williams
- Alexisonfire
- Alter Bridge
- Antisaint
- Architects
- As December Falls
- Asking Alexandria
- Avatar
- Bad Religion
- Bambie Thug
- Beauty School
- Beauty School Dropout
- Behemoth
- Blackgold
- Blind Channel
- Bloodywood
- Bob Vylan
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Brutus
- Cancer Bats
- Carcass
- Carpenter Brut
- Casey
- Caskets
- Cherry Bombs
- Cleopatrick
- Clutch
- Coheed and Cambria
- Crashface
- Crawlers
- Deaf Havana
- Demob Happy
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- Disturbed
- Electric Callboy
- Elvana
- Empire State Bastard
- Enola Gay
- Epica
- Evanescence
- Fearless Vampire Killers
- Fever 333
- Fixation
- Friday 9th June
- Ghost
- Graphic Nature
- Green Lung
- Greg Puciato
- GWAR
- Haken
- Halestorm
- Hatebreed
- Hawxx
- Hot Milk
- Hundred Reasons
- I Prevail
- Ice Nine Kills
- Ingested
- Jazmin Bean
- Jinjer
- Joey Valence & Brae
- Kid Bookie
- Kid Kapichi
- Lake Malice
- Lorna Shore
- Mammoth WVH
- Metallica
- Mimi Barks
- Mod Sun
- Mom Jeans.
- Monuments
- Motionless in White
- Municipal Waste
- Neck Deep
- Nothing
- Nova Twins
- Nowhere
- Palaye Royale
- Parkway Drive
- Pendulum
- Perturbator
- Placebo
- Polaris
- Punk Rock Factory
- PUP
- Pupil Slicer
- Puscifer
- RedHook
- Rituals
- Saturday 10th June
- Set It Off
- SiM
- Simple Plan
- Skindred
- Slipknot
- Smash Into Pieces
- Snayx
- Soen
- Soul Glo
- Spirit Adrift
- Stand Atlantic
- State Champs
- Static Dress
- Stray From The Path
- Sunday 11th June
- Taipei Houston
- Taylor Acorn
- Terror
- The Amity Affliction
- The Blackout
- The Bronx
- The HU
- The Meffs
- The Warning
- Three Days Grace
- Tigress
- Touché Amoré
- Undeath
- VV
- Witch Fever
Download Festival 2018 line-up
86 acts played Download Festival in 2018.
- Alexisonfire
- All Them Witches
- Asking Alexandria
- Avenged Sevenfold
- BABYMETAL
- Baroness
- Black Stone Cherry
- Black Veil Brides
- Blessthefall
- Body Count
- Boston Manor
- Bullet for My Valentine
- Bury Tomorrow
- Cancer Bats
- Corrosion of Conformity
- Cradle of Filth
- Dead Cross
- Death Blooms
- DragonForce
- Dream State
- Emmure
- Employed to Serve
- Faim
- FEVER 333
- Gold Key
- Greta Van Fleet
- Guns N’ Roses
- Hatebreed
- Higher Power
- In This Moment
- Inglorious
- Jamie Lenman
- Jonathan Davis
- Knocked Loose
- Koyo
- Kreator
- L7
- Less Than Jake
- Malevolence
- Marilyn Manson
- Marmozets
- Mayday Parade
- Meshuggah
- Milk Teeth
- Miss May I
- Monster Truck
- Myke Gray
- Myrkur
- Neck Deep
- No Hot Ashes
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Parkway Drive
- Plini
- Powerflo
- Puppy
- Rise Against
- Rolo Tomassi
- Savage Messiah
- Shinedown
- Shvpes
- Sleep Token
- Stick to Your Guns
- Stray From The Path
- Sun Arcana
- Tesseract
- The Bottom Line
- The Bronx
- The Hives
- The Hyena Kill
- The Maine
- The Pink Slips
- The Struts
- The Temperance Movement
- The Woes
- Thrice
- Thunder
- Thy Art Is Murder
- Tigress
- Turbonegro
- Volbeat
- Von Hertzen Brothers
- Wayward Sons
- Whiskey Myers
- WSTR
- You Me at Six
- Zeal & Ardor
Download Festival 2016 line-up
21 acts played Download Festival in 2016.
- Alien Ant Farm
- Amon Amarth
- Billy Talent
- Black Sabbath
- Breaking Benjamin
- Deftones
- Disturbed
- Gojira
- Halestorm
- Iron Maiden
- Killswitch Engage
- Korn
- Megadeth
- Monster Truck
- Nightwish
- Rammstein
- Rival Sons
- Saxon
- Shinedown
- Skillet
- Skindred
Download Festival 2013 line-up
25 acts played Download Festival in 2013.
- A Day To Remember
- Alice in Chains
- Architects
- Asking Alexandria
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Cancer Bats
- Coal Chamber
- Converge
- Down
- Five Finger Death Punch
- HIM
- Iron Maiden
- Korn
- Kvelertak
- Mastodon
- Motorhead
- Papa Roach
- Parkway Drive
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Rammstein
- Slipknot
- Stone Sour
- The Gaslight Anthem
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Volbeat
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Who played Download Festival in 2025?
114 acts played Download Festival in 2025, among them Airbourne, Alcest, Alien Ant Farm, Amira Elfeky, Anaal Nathrakh. The full 2025 line-up is listed on this page.
Who played Download Festival in 2024?
96 acts played Download Festival in 2024, among them Alien Weaponry, All Them Witches, Alpha Wolf, Asinhell, Atreyu. The full 2024 line-up is listed on this page.
Who played Download Festival in 2023?
121 acts played Download Festival in 2023, among them A.A. Williams, Alexisonfire, Alter Bridge, Antisaint, Architects. The full 2023 line-up is listed on this page.