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Brand new Skindred video – watch now

What a way to start the weekend! Fresh off the back of the sold out Jägermeister tour, the mighty SKINDRED are very excited to premiere their brand new video for the pit-inducing Game Over.


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Posted on 18 May 2012

 
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Camping tickets SOLD OUT

Posted on 15 May 2012

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Camping tickets SOLD OUT

It’s official – DOWNLOAD CAMPING TICKETS have now SOLD OUT!

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Posted on 15 May 2012

 
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New While She Sleeps video – watch now

Download favourites While She Sleeps have released the video for new single This Is The Six – scroll down to watch it now!


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Posted on 14 May 2012

 
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Boardie Takeover returns to Download

The Boardie Takeover will be blasting into The Doghouse once again this year on the Thursday night at this year's Festival.

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Posted on 11 May 2012

 
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Black Sabbath announce new Best Of album

Ahead of their hugely-anticipated headline set at Download this June, Black Sabbath will be releasing Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath, offering no less than 14 classic tracks from the band's first eight albums.


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Posted on 10 May 2012

 
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New Firewind video – watch now

Heavy metal’ers Firewind are bringing their brutal blend of big riffs and awesome anthems to Download in June, and have been working on new material to showcase at this year’s festival.


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Posted on 08 May 2012

 
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Introducing metal supergroup AxeWound

From its humble inception as a creative studio project, Matt Tuck’s collaboration with Liam Cormier of the Cancer Bats and session drummer extraordinaire Jason Bowld has surpassed expectations and snowballed into a metal behemoth set to be the talking point of the summer...

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Posted on 03 May 2012

 
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Black Sabbath play intimate homecoming show

In preparation for their hugely anticipated headline performance at this year’s Download Festival, Black Sabbath have announced an intimate homecoming show at the O2 Academy in Birmingham on Saturday May 19th.

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Posted on 30 Apr 2012

 
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Stream the new Tenacious D album in full now

The mighty Tenacious D are releasing their new album Rize Of The Fenix on May 15th – but are offering fans the chance to stream it in full right now.

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Posted on 30 Apr 2012

 
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The Dirty Youth release new video

Following hot on the tail of their debut video Fight (which has already racked up an incredible half a million hits), The Dirty Youth are back with single number two; Rise Up. And new video which is nothing short of epic!

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Posted on 26 Apr 2012

 

 
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