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My Passion, Yashin, Ghost and more for Download 2012!

Download Festival has just got even bigger!

The organisers have announced an additional 19 bands to the ever-growing summer line-up.

My Passion, Yashin, Ghost and La Dispute join the bill, alongside Breed 77, Feed The Rhino, Shadows Fall and Sanguine and more.

The full list of bands playing the 2012 June weekender can be viewed below.

Download Festival have also announced that they will pay tribute to late Marshall amps founder Jim Marshall by naming the main stage in his honour, and have further unveiled a series of club nights around the UK!

These dates are as follows:

APRIL

20 London, Sin @ The Electric Ballroom (10.00pm)
21 Newcastle, Legends (from 9.00pm)
21 Birmingham, Vudu (from 9.30pm)
21 London, Decadence @ St Moritz (from 10.30pm)
21 Nottingham, Rock City (from 9.00pm)
21 Manchester, Satan's Hollow (from 9.00pm)
21 Liverpool, Krazy House (from 9.00pm)
21 Norwich, Meltdown @ The Waterfront (10.00pm)
21 Sheffield, Reservoir Rocks @ The Corporation (from 10.00pm)
21 Glasgow, The Cathouse (from 10.30pm)
21 Cardiff, Bogiez (from 10.00pm)
21 Wolverhampton, Corrosion at The Wulfrun (from 10.00pm)

Tickets and special ticket packages for Download 2012 are available now through www.downloadfestival.co.uk or www.livenationexperience.co.uk or by calling 0207 009 3484.

Download Festival 2012
June 8, 9, 10 - Donington Park.

Band confirmed for the event are:

Metallica, Black Sabbath, The Prodigy, Soundgarden, DevilDriver, Devin Townsend Project, Anthrax, Machine Head, Lamb Of God, Trivium, You Me At Six, Biffy Clyro, Tenacious D, Chase & Status, August Burns Red, The Little Angels, Ugly Kid Joe, Megadeth, Kyuss Lives!, As I Lay Dying, Steel Panther, Billy Talent, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy, Rise Against, Fear Factory, Five Finger Death Punch, Terrorvision, Black Label Society, Periphery, Ginger Wildheart, Reckless Love, NOFX, Shinedown, Killswitch Engage, Black Veil Brides, Soil, Butcher Babies, Heaven's Basement, Fozzy, Gun, Marmozets, Cancer Bats, Upon A Burning Body, While She Sleeps, Dropkick Murphys, Red White & Blues, The Defiled, The James Cleaver Quintet, Sylosis, Rise To Remain, Kopek, Saxon, The Quireboys, Sebastian Bach, We Are The Ocean, Corey Taylor (acoustic), The Treatment, Anti-Nowhere League, Broken, Emmure, Europe, Firewind, Halestorm, Mallory Knox, The Safety Fire, Stellar Revival, Theory Of A Deadman, Turbo Negro, Turbo Wolf, Refused, Kids In Glass Houses, Four Year Strong, Lower Than Atlantis, Rival Sons, Black Spiders, Kobra & The Lotus, Don Broco, Edguy, T.Mills, Gallows, Porter Robinson, Fearless Vampire Killers, Six Hour Sundown, Lawnmower Deth, Silent Descent, Breed 77, Saint Jude, With One Last Breath, The Union, My Passion, No Americana, Royal Cartel, Tyla, Ghost, La Dispute, Shadows Fall, Feed The Rhino, The Dirty Youth, Yashin, Voodoo Johnson and Sanguine.


 
Posted by Katie P at 04:00PM | April 12, 2012

Holy Gayness.

Posted by The Messiah | April 12, 2012 10:07 PM | Reply to this

I suppose this year Download is the lesser of 2 naff festivals, since the other got cancelled.

Posted by CJL | April 13, 2012 10:50 AM | Reply to this

I'm not going and i'm proud! :)

Posted by sarah | April 15, 2012 7:43 PM | Reply to this
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