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Download Festival

Friday 13 - Sunday 15 June, 2025
Raceway Fields And Forest Donington Park in Leicestershire

About Download

Alternative
Metal
Nu Metal
Pop Punk
Rock

Retaining its title year after year as the only rock festival worth mentioning, Download Festival continues to hit all the right notes for true fans of rock music. Three days of heavy rock over five stages are what await the faithful who make the journey to the iconic location every year.

Previous headliners have included the likes of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, HIM, Black Sabbath, System of a Down, Tool, and Guns N’ Roses to name a few.

With each year’s improvement on the last, and the organizers staying true to the Donnington ‘Monsters of Rock’ ethos, rock music certainly has a spiritual home in the shape of Download Festival.

The bars stay open after the entertainment has finished, and running until 3am (Friday to Sunday) there's District X (or, as veterans know it, The Village). 

With a merch megastore, Fat Frank's camping shop and a regularly-stocked Co-op on site, you can rock 'til you drop.

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Green Day / McFly / Korn / Bullet for My Valentine / Weezer / Jimmy Eat World / Sex Pistols / Don Broco / Steel Panther / Eagles of Death Metal / The Darkness / Mallory Knox / Alien Ant Farm / Within Temptation / Sleep Token / Airbourne / Cradle of Filth / Meshuggah / Apocalyptica / Northlane / Boston Manor / The Ghost Inside / Whitechapel / Loathe / Poppy / Sylosis / Polaris / Spiritbox / Jinjer / Sikth / Nothing More / Lorna Shore / BAD NERVES / Anaal Nathrakh / Me First And The Gimme Gimmes / Starset / Novelists / Dayseeker / Sophie Lloyd / Alcest / Static Dress / Bleed From Within / Filter / Dead Pony / Trophy Eyes / Dead Poet Society / Riding The Low / Fit For An Autopsy / Graphic Nature / Turbonegro / Artio / The Meffs / Unprocessed / Svalbard / LASTELLE / BEX / The Scratch / Underside / VENUS GRRRLS / Kittie / Lolo / Kim Dracula / Currents / Vowws / Battlesnake / Eivor / Split Chain / Spiritual Cramp / Holy Wars / The Funeral Portrait / Harpy / Seven Hours After Violet / Jerry Cantrell / Amira Elfeky / Archers / Arrows In Action / Faetooth / Gore / The Haunt / House Of Protection / Karen Dió / Melted Bodies / The Southern River Band / Survive Said The Prophet / Teen Mortgage / Vola Vower / Windhand

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Friday 13 - Sunday 15 June, 2025
Raceway Fields And Forest Donington Park in Leicestershire

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Download Festival takes place Friday 13th June - Sunday 15th June 2025.

Download Festival takes place at Donington Park, next to East Midlands Airport.

No. Children under 5 are free and don't need a ticket but do need to be accompanied by an adult ticket holder at all times. 

Children aged 5-12 must have a Child ticket and be accompanied by an adult ticket holder at all times. 

13-15 year olds must have an Adult ticket and be accompanied by an adult ticket holder at all times. 

 

Please note that Download Festival will include acts considered unsuitable for children.