Download Festival announces lineup for 20th anniversary: ticket prices, presale info and more
Download Festival announces lineup and ticket prices for 2023 edition. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Download Festival has announced details of its huge 20th anniversary lineup – and tickets go on sale soon.
The festival will return to Donington Park from 7-11 June for its 20th edition.
They’ve confirmed 60 acts so far, with Metallica, Slipknot and Bring Me The Horizon headlining the bill.
Tickets for Download Festival will be released at 10am on 10 November at Ticketmaster and See Tickets.
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Next year’s edition will see Metallica perform on the Thursday and Saturday of the festival, returning for first time since 2012.
They’ll headline the two nights with “two unique sets”, which will see the group perform “no repeats” for fans.
While Bring Me The Horizon will top the bill on Friday and Slipknot will close the festival on Sunday.
Other names confirmed include Evanescence, who performed at the first ever Download Festival in 2013, Architects, Placebo and Disturbed.
Also featuring across the weekend will be Ghost, Parkway Drive, Alexisonfire, Pendulum and Within Temptation.
You can find out the full lineup, how to get tickets and presale info below.
How to get Download Festival tickets
They go on general sale from 10am on Thursday, 10 November via Ticketmaster and See Tickets.
Fans can sign up for a presale, which takes place at 9pm on Tuesday, 8 November on the official Download website.
This will be weekend tickets, while day tickets are likely to be released at a closer date to the event.
What are Download 2023 tickets prices?
Tickets for next year’s festival are confirmed to be priced at the following:
- Weekend and five-night general camping – £345.00 (including fees)
- Weekend and four-night general camping – £325.00 (including fees)
- Weekend arena only – £300.00 (including fees)
- Car parking – £26
You can check out the full lineup below.
Who’s on the lineup?
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The festival will be headlined by Metallica, who will perform two unique sets on the Thursday and Saturday of the festival. The Friday night will be headlined by Bring Me The Horizon and the Sunday will see a headline set from Slipknot.
Other artists appearing across the weekend include: Architects / Disturbed / Placebo / Evanescence / Ghost / Parkway Drive / Alexisonfire / Pendulum / Within Temptation
Finishing up the lineup are: As December Falls / Asking Alexandria / Aviva / Bambie Thug / Beauty School Dropout / Behemoth / Blackgold / Blind Channel / Bloodywood / Brutus / Crashface / Crawlers / Dead Sara / Elvana / Enola Gay / Fever 333 / Fixation / Graphic Nature / GWAR / Hawxx / Ingested / I Prevail / Jazmin Bean / Kid Bookie / Kid Kapichi / Lake Malice / Lorna Shore / Mod Sun / Monuments / Motionless In White / Municipal Waste / nothing, nowhere. / Nova Twins / Polaris / Pupil Slicer / Seether / Set It Off / SiM / Simple Plan / Soen / Soul Glo / Stand Atlantic / Stray From The Path / Taylor Acorn / The Blackout / The Distillers / The Meffs / Terror / Three Days Grace / Touche Amore / VV / Witch Fever
