Download Festival 2019
Hold onto your heavy metal butts because Download Festival is returning for 2020 and shit is about to get REAL. We’ve just been fed the first juicy bits of info about next year’s monster mosh fest — including dates, venues and the exact time that the very first lineup announcement will be dropping into our […]
I Prevail are an anomaly. It’s quite common these days for a band to achieve viral status with a cover, but it’s rare that they confirm the buzz, as I Prevail did, with follow-up material. The band’s debut album Lifelines, which followed in the footsteps of their cover of Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’, was met […]
An impressive contrast awaits those who rock up to Download‘s inaugural Sydney event at the opening of the gates. The dual main-stage is kicked off by two heavy Australasian acts that, although considerably different in many ways, reflect the prosperity and sonic diversity in the scene’s immediate vicinity. Perth’s Voyager are in their 20th year […]
Grab your blackened highlighters because the official Download Festival Australia 2019 set times are fresh from the grave and ready to munch on your brains! There’ll be a whopping five stages running across both legs of the rock and metal bash in Sydney and Melbourne, which means you’ll likely have some *distorted tritone chord plays* […]
In news that has crushed our hearts like a plastic cup inside a wall of death, Download Festival Australia has just lost its 2019 headliner. Organisers have just confirmed that Ozzy Osbourne has been forced to pull the plug on his Aussie tour plans due to health issues. In a statement to Music Feeds, the […]
Ozzy Osbourne has cancelled his headlining slot at Download Festival Japan due to ill health. In a statement on their website, the organisers of the Japanese leg of the global rock and metal bash write: “Following Ozzy’s recent postponement of UK and European tours due to ill health, the Download Japan team has been wishing […]
The monstrous lineup for the 2019 instalment of Download Festival Australia just got even more monstrous, with organisers today announcing a 3rd batch of artists invading the mosh. Five new acts have been announced, of which four are homegrown (three are female-fronted too, FYI!). Fresh from warming up arena stages in Australia and NZ for […]
So Australia’s Download Festival recently informed us that they’d be making their final lineup announcement this week, but it turns out that’s not 100% accurate. Oh — a lineup announcement will definitely be happening this week — DW about that! But it turns out the FINAL band to be announced on this year’s monster lineup […]
With the Aussie iteration of Download Festival happening right around the corner, metalheads around the country are getting ready to headbang and mosh like the best of them. But, Download just announced the lineup to its UK edition and a whole bunch of homegrown heroes are making the trip over to play this massive event. […]
Download Festival is right around the corner, and as it so happens, it has gone a pretty big lineup change with one international act pulling out only to be replaced by another. Unfortunately, Andy Black (otherwise known as Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides fame) has had to pull out of the festival and cancel […]
