The late-'90s British boy band with the rap verses, reunited and booked entirely on the strength of the incongruity, and 'Everybody Get Up' will, in fact, get everybody up.
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Download 2026 Lineup
Donington's 23rd Download: Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park across four stages, plus a Thursday opening night, on the spiritual home ground of British rock.
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About Download 2026
Download's 23rd edition brought 113 acts back to Donington Park, the patch of Leicestershire tarmac that has been British rock's spiritual home since Monsters of Rock. Limp Bizkit headlined Friday, Guns N' Roses Saturday, and Linkin Park closed the festival on Sunday. Ticket packages sold out ahead of the weekend.
Beneath the Apex Stage headliners, the bill did what Download does best, running four stages that barely overlap in audience. Trivium, Babymetal, Bad Omens and Ice Nine Kills carried the Apex undercard; Opus had Architects, Mastodon, A Day to Remember, Behemoth and a Tom Morello solo set; Avalanche leaned British and punk-adjacent with Feeder, The All-American Rejects, Hot Milk, Marmozets and Ash; and Dogtooth was the underground stage, with Blood Incantation, Decapitated, Cavalera, Conjurer and Gatecreeper.
Two changes worth knowing about. Static-X were billed to headline Dogtooth on the Sunday but cancelled their entire 2026 run for medical reasons, and Creeper stepped in (their third set of the weekend, which tied them with Corey Taylor for the most sets played at a single Download). Imminence were also announced and pulled out in February. And in the weekend's most Download booking, the German happy-hardcore act Scooter played the Avalanche Stage.
Expect rock, metal, metalcore and hard rock across 113 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Donington Park, Leicestershire, UK
- Lineup
- 113 acts
- Website
- Official site
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Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era. Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
Nu metalRap rock
The classic-lineup reunion long outlasted anyone's expectations, and the three-hour sets still get through most of the canon, Slash solos and all.
Hard rockHeavy metal
Reconstituted with Emily Armstrong on co-vocals, playing a catalogue that turned out to be load-bearing for two generations, where 'In the End' still detonates.
Nu metalAlternative rock
Toronto hardcore with a Southern-sludge swing and a Sabbath covers side project that tells you everything: riffs first, breakdowns close behind.
Hardcore punkSludge metal
Detroit's disco-rock absurdists, whose deadpan commitment to the bit has sustained twenty-odd albums, with 'Danger! High Voltage' still combusting nightly.
Garage rockDisco rock
Max and Iggor performing Sepultura's 'Roots' in full: Brazilian metal history live, from the brothers who wrote it.
Thrash metalDeath metal
B-Real's nasal snarl over DJ Muggs's murk: the group that made stoner rap a genre with a flag, 'Insane in the Brain' still a jump-along ritual.
Hip hopRap rock
German trancecore turned full variety act, with day-glo costumes, absurd videos, and breakdowns that genuinely hit, the internet's favorite metal party band.
MetalcoreElectronicore
Welsh alt-rock lifers with an unreasonable number of songs you'd recognise from British radio in the early 2000s, and 'Buck Rogers' is just the start.
Alternative rockBritpop
Lzzy Hale's Grammy-winning powerhouse, the loudest voice in modern hard rock, delivered nightly with full-throttle sincerity.
Hard rockHeavy metal
Masked LA rap-rock six-piece with six vocalists and a knack for the shout-along that outlives the criticism: critic-proof and pit-approved.
Rap rockNu metal
'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' are the calling cards of San Diego's nu-metal survivors, whose positivity stayed intact through every scene cycle.
Nu metalRap rock
Australian drum-and-bass played by an actual rock band, and the live show is louder and more physical than the records suggest.
Drum and bassElectronic rock
Pink-glitter 'bimbocore' (pop-metalcore with a feminist bite), with breakdowns in hot pink and lyrics that name names.
Bimbocore
Brighton metalcore institution that rebuilt itself after the loss of founding drummer and chief songwriter Tom Searle, trading pit-focused aggression for something vast and cleanly engineered without losing the weight.
Metal
J-pop choreography welded to genuine power-metal chops, a premise that should not work and completely does, now with arena-scale production and a decade of converted skeptics.
Kawaii metalMetal
Warpaint-and-leather anthems: the black parade's glammer cousins, with stadium-goth choruses delivered with total conviction and eyeliner-era devotion still marching.
MetalcoreGlam metal
Denver death metal by way of Tangerine Dream, cosmic, patient, and the most critically adored band in the genre.
Death metalProgressive metal
Marseille metalcore outfit trading in huge melodic choruses and breakdowns, with occasional French lyrics cutting through the English.
Metal
British band reviving 2000s alt-rock gloss with a genuinely modern pop sensibility, with Y2K crunch and algorithm-era hooks.
Rock
'Gives You Hell' and a wildly fun second act: the internet's favorite reunion, with Tyson Ritter in full chaos-uncle mode.
Pop punkPower pop
Melbourne five-piece who traded straight metalcore for something sleeker and more atmospheric, with riffs built around croon-to-scream dynamics.
Metal
Matt Heafy's Florida four-piece has quietly become one of metal's most technically reliable live bands, from 'Ascendancy' to now with no off nights.
MetalcoreThrash metal
The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint, with mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
Pop punkMetalcore
Noah Sebastian's project drifted from metalcore toward something moodier and far more electronic, and got much bigger for it. 'Just Pretend' made them the scene's biggest crossover story.
MetalcoreAlternative metal
Indian nu-metal with dhol and flute in the front of the mix, and anti-hate lyrics over some of the heaviest grooves going.
Nu metalFolk metal
Horror-movie metalcore staged as full theatre, with every song a slasher reference and every set closer to a production than a gig.
MetalcoreHorror punk
Texas hardcore at its most punishing, with mosh calls that carry a message and a low end that treats subtlety as a character flaw.
HardcoreMetalcore
RØRY
Rock
H.P. Baxxter's German hardcore-rave institution, whose complete tonal mismatch with a rock festival is exactly the point: 'Hyper Hyper', forever.
Happy hardcoreEurodance
Taylor Momsen's grunge-blooded hard rock is smoky, heavy, and chart-topping, with more rock-radio #1s than most legacy acts.
Hard rockAlternative rock
UK post-hardcore upstarts with arena ambition, with Architects-school heaviness and a new generation's polish. Ones to watch, loudly.
Post-hardcore
Japanese hard rock performed in maid costumes by players good enough that the gimmick stops registering within a song, with virtuosic riffs served with a curtsy.
Hard rockJ-rock
Leeds band working the melodic end of metalcore, with big clean choruses set against screamed verses, polished, radio-sized heaviness with a post-hardcore heart.
Metal
North Carolina crossover veterans who moved from hardcore into thick Southern sludge and stayed there, with Sabbath swing filtered through a punk's impatience.
Sludge metalStoner metal
Southampton's theatrical horror-punk, committed to the concept album and the costume change in equal measure, with AFI drama and a British music-hall streak.
Horror punkGothic rock
Chris Daughtry's band, which turned a talent-show runner-up finish into one of the more durable American rock careers of its era, with big-chorus post-grunge built for arenas.
Rock
Sunny California hardcore that treats a circle pit as a party rather than a fight, and the scene's most reliably grinning live band.
HardcoreCrossover thrash
Headwreck
Metal
Holywatr
Rock
James and the Cold Gun
Cardiff-formed quartet trading in big riffs and bigger choruses, with classic rock scale played with the urgency of a band still working small rooms.
Rock
UK duo welding nu-metal bounce to electronic noise, abrasive, hooky, and loud out of all proportion to their size.
Rock
Lakeview
Country
Belgian crew dealing in beatdown hardcore at its most punishing, with breakdowns built for pile-ons, delivered with metallic weight and no wasted motion.
Metal
Native James
Ipswich rapper who drives hip-hop with punk and rock aggression, building live shows closer to a mosh pit than a rap set.
Hip-hop
Swiss beatdown with a genuinely unsettling vocal performance sitting on top of the chug, and Europe's heaviest recent export.
DeathcoreBeatdown
The band that made djent a genre rather than an onomatopoeia, and then kept writing actual songs inside it: prog-metal with hooks.
Progressive metalDjent
Formerly Slaves, rebuilt around melody, they make modern post-hardcore with the edges sanded deliberately smooth and the choruses aimed at radio.
Rock
Southern California metalcore built around Garrett Russell's densely literary lyrics: theology, trauma and history screamed over restless time signatures.
Metal
Silly Goose
Nu-metal revivalists working bouncing downtuned riffs and rapped verses, with a playful streak that suits the name.
Metal
Slay Squad
Hip-hop
New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end, and the format's next arena act in waiting.
Alt-metalPost-hardcore
Stampin' Ground
Rock
St. Louis screamo-adjacent survivors of the early-2000s emo boom, still built around gang vocals, acrobatic stage energy and 'Until the Day I Die.'
Rock
The Primals
Rock
Vianova
Berlin band active since 2014, setting metalcore breakdowns against the syncopated, low-tuned riffing of djent.
Metal
High Wycombe five-piece pairing Charlie Rolfe's clean-to-scream range with synth-lined heaviness: post-hardcore scaled for big rooms.
Metal
Brighton pop-punk that took a hard theatrical turn into emo concept records and never really came back, with eyeliner-era drama played completely straight.
Pop punkEmo
Polish blackened death metal staged like liturgy, with corpse paint, fire, and riffs with genuine architectural heft, led by Nergal's decades-long war on the sacred.
Blackened death metalBlack metal
Gavin Rossdale's post-grunge outfit, whose mid-'90s singles have aged into genuine festival-crowd catnip, as 'Glycerine' and 'Machinehead' still land like it's 1995.
Post-grungeAlternative rock
British sludge with post-metal patience: grim, dynamic, and one of the UK underground's genuine success stories, crushing without ever turning monotonous.
Sludge metalPost-metal
Polish technical death metal built on groove as much as speed. Vogg's riffing is the whole architecture, precision that still swings.
Technical death metalDeath metal
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew, where everyone plays everything and it all lands at full force.
PunkMetal
Forever attached to one enormous song, and entirely comfortable with that. 'Bodies' still detonates, and the rest of the set hits harder than expected.
Nu metalHard rock
Long-form psychedelic stoner rock that abandoned riff-worship for genuine composition somewhere around album three, with twenty-minute pieces that earn every bar.
Stoner rockProgressive rock
Frozemode
Alternative
Manchester co-fronted pop-punk with a sneer inherited directly from Britpop, featuring dual vocals, big choruses, and bigger attitude.
Pop punkAlternative rock
British band threading Middle Eastern modes and Persian melody through slow, monumental doom, with operatic vocals carried over enormous riffs.
Metal
Yorkshire math-rock with Becca Macintyre's extraordinary range on top: angular, unpredictable, and back after a long gap with the wildness intact.
Math rockAlternative rock
Melrose Avenue
Rock
Mouth Culture
Leicester band working since 2018 in the space where alternative rock meets pop hooks.
Alternative
Nevertel
American band working in polished modern hard rock, pairing heavy riffs with big sing-along choruses built for active-rock radio.
Rock
Pussyliquor
Punk
Los Angeles four-piece raised on Nineties heaviness, with drop-tuned riffs, grunge-sized dynamics and choruses that arrive like a collapse.
Rock
Self Deception
Rock
Theatrical pop-rock with orchestral flourishes and a frontman who can genuinely belt, bringing Broadway instincts at Warped velocity.
Pop-rockPop-punk
Late-'90s funk-metal cut short by tragedy, hyperactive and punk-fast, and still fondly guarded by everyone who caught them the first time.
Hard rock
Sweet Savage
Rock
Tailgunner
Metal
Ginger Wildheart's chaotic marriage of Beatles melody and Metallica volume, a genuinely beloved British institution that survived against all odds.
Hard rockPunk rock
Bridgend hard rock built for big rooms, with the kind of chorus-first songwriting that turned a South Wales pub circuit act into a proper touring proposition.
Rock
Tropic Gold
Rock
Melodic metalcore that leans hard on the clean-sung hook, carrying a decade-plus of hard-won catharsis and brotherhood themes made literal.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
Spanish outfit welding metalcore riffing to electronic textures behind a commanding female vocal front.
Metal
Halle metalcore act balancing clean melodic hooks against screams, with a post-hardcore polish that has outlasted most of their scene peers.
Metal
Northern Irish power-pop with an absurd hit rate in the late 90s and no interest in slowing the tempo since.
Alternative rockPower pop
Connecticut band working the heavy end of metalcore, with hardcore-scene pacing underneath the riffs and a pit-first approach to arrangement.
Metal
Texas metalcore with a big melodic centre, the kind of band that grows a stage size every touring cycle.
Rock
Decessus
Metal
Leeds trio welding Nineties grunge riffs to outsized pop hooks, with power-trio volume and choruses built for rooms much larger than the ones they started in.
Rock
Nineties alt-rock trio with Keanu Reeves on bass, reactivated after a long dormancy, with unfussy guitar songs played without a hint of novelty.
Rock
Brazilian alt-rock with a rotating-instrument gimmick that turns out to be a real band underneath: everyone plays everything, arena-sized either way.
Rock
Arizona death metal with a Swedish buzzsaw tone and hardcore pacing: economical, extremely heavy, and one of the revival's flagship names.
Death metalHardcore
Ivri
Alternative
French quartet out of Mulhouse, grinding away since their teens, playing long, loud, guitar-driven rock built for rooms that expect to be flattened.
Rock
Letlive
Rock
Orlando pop-punk that pulls freely from hip-hop and hyperpop and refuses to pick a lane, with genre loyalty traded for pure momentum.
Pop punkAlternative
Mammoth
Hard rock
Atlanta's prog-sludge institution, with concept records about doom and grief, played with genuinely uncommon musicianship and harmonized howls.
Progressive metalSludge metal
Mould
Punk
Private School
Alternative
Mike Ness's Orange County punk band, forty years deep in rockabilly-tinged songs about bad decisions, with tattooed survival as an art form.
Punk rockCowpunk
LA industrial-tinged nu metal, mechanical and cold in a way most of their late-'90s peers never managed, with machine-press riffs still grinding.
Nu metalIndustrial metal
Spitting Glass
Sweet Pill
Rock
Moody, bass-heavy alt-metal that trades breakdowns for slow-building dread and falsetto, with 'FEEL NOTHING' the crossover moment.
Post-hardcoreAlt-metal
The Pretty Wild
Las Vegas sisters Jyl and Jules Wylde, who graduated from casino cover sets to theatrical metalcore laced with dark pop hooks.
MetalcoreDark pop
Swedish hardcore channelling panic-attack lyricism into riffs that feel physically claustrophobic: short songs, total impact.
HardcoreNu-metalcore
The Rage guitarist solo, which in practice means the riffs, the politics, and a rotating cast of guests. Expect surprises.
Alternative rockRap rock
Fort Collins solo project pairing pop-punk hooks with heavier emo-rock, with lyrics that dwell on mental health and personal struggle.
Rock
Wayside
Rock
Zero 9:36
American singer working the seam between big-tent rock and rap-inflected pop-punk, delivering arena-scaled hooks with a screamer's commitment.
Rock
The headliners
Five · The late-'90s British boy band with the rap verses, reunited and booked entirely on the strength of the incongruity, and 'Everybody Get Up' will, in fact, get everybody up. The late-90s boy band headlined the Thursday opening night, alongside Electric Six and Cancer Bats.
Limp Bizkit · Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era. Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
Guns N' Roses · The classic-lineup reunion long outlasted anyone's expectations, and the three-hour sets still get through most of the canon, Slash solos and all. The classic-lineup reunion, still getting through most of the canon in three hours.
Linkin Park · Reconstituted with Emily Armstrong on co-vocals, playing a catalogue that turned out to be load-bearing for two generations, where 'In the End' still detonates. Closed the festival, reconstituted with Emily Armstrong on co-vocals.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Bloodywood · Indian nu-metal with dhol and flute up front: anti-hate lyrics over some of the heaviest grooves going.
Hot Milk · Manchester co-fronted punk with a genuine chaotic streak and one of the sharper live shows in UK rock.
Sleep Theory · Memphis alt-metal that has climbed a stage size a year on the strength of the choruses.
Lake Malice · London electronic-metal duo, all glitch and menace, punching well above a Dogtooth slot.
Die Spitz · Austin four-piece who swap instruments mid-set and play garage-punk like it might fall apart.
Conjurer · British sludge with post-metal patience, one of the UK underground's genuine success stories.
Other acts worth planning around
Blood Incantation · Denver death metal by way of Tangerine Dream, and the most critically adored band in the genre.
Mastodon · Atlanta prog-sludge institution with genuinely uncommon musicianship.
Tom Morello · The Rage guitarist solo: the riffs, the politics, and a rotating cast of guests.
Scooter · German happy-hardcore on a rock festival's Avalanche Stage; the tonal mismatch was entirely the point.
Creeper · Played three sets across the weekend after stepping in for the cancelled Static-X on Sunday.
The lineup by day
Thursday 11 June was the opening night; the four main stages ran Friday 12 through Sunday 14 June.
Thursday lineup (June 11)
Friday lineup (June 12)
Limp Bizkit, Cypress Hill, Electric Callboy, Pendulum, Hollywood Undead, P.O.D. + 28 more
Saturday lineup (June 13)
Guns N' Roses, Trivium, Babymetal, Black Veil Brides, Landmvrks, South Arcade + 31 more
Sunday lineup (June 14)
Linkin Park, Bad Omens, Ice Nine Kills, The Pretty Reckless, Bloodywood, RØRY + 33 more
Download 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined Download 2026?
Limp Bizkit on Friday, Guns N' Roses on Saturday, and Linkin Park closing on Sunday. Five headlined the Thursday opening night.
When and where was Download 2026?
Donington Park in Leicestershire, with the Thursday opening night on 11 June and the three main music days running 12–14 June 2026. It was the 23rd edition.
How many bands played Download 2026?
113 acts across the Apex, Opus, Avalanche and Dogtooth stages, plus the Thursday night bill.
Why did Static-X not play Download 2026?
They cancelled all their 2026 tour dates due to serious medical issues. Creeper were announced as replacements and headlined the Dogtooth Stage on the Sunday.
When is Download 2027?
Download has confirmed 9–13 June 2027 at Donington Park.
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