Download Australia Announces Big Names For 2019

2018 saw the Australian debut of the mighty Download Festival. 30,000 heavy music fans descended on Flemington, christening Melbourne into the Download family alongside Donington UK, (the spiritual home of rock), Paris France, Madrid Spain. In 2019, Download is returning to Melbourne and will head north to serve up a mammoth line up of sonic brutality and great times to Sydneysiders for the very first time! Download hits Parramatta Park in Sydney on March 9 and returns to Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Monday, March 11.

Here's what we've been told so far, line-up-wise:

Arguably most importantly, Ozzy Osbourne and Slayer will be joining Download for the Australian legs of their final ever world tours, which will be a lot of fun.

Other than those heroes, confirmed so far are Judas Priest, Alice In Chains, Ghost, Rise Against, The Amity Affliction, Anthrax, Halestorm, Behemoth, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, I Prevail, Converge, Frenzal Rhomb, Luca Brasi, Code Orange, Andy Black, The Fever 333, War on Women, High Tension, Outright, Ruins and Alien Weaponry.

That alone is a line-doup worth setting a weekend aside for, and there's more TBC, too!

Head over here for more info.