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Download Festival 2025 announces Green Day, KoRn, and Sleep Token as headliners

Download Festival 2025 announces Green Day, KoRn, and Sleep Token as headliners

by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 13, 2024 | Festivals

The 2025 edition of U.K.’s Download Festival is set for June 13-15 at Donington Park, Leicestershire, marking its 22nd edition with a refreshed lineup branded as DLXXII. For the first time, the festival will feature first-time headliners Green Day, KoRn, and...
Download Festival 2024 to include headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy & Avenged Sevenfold

Download Festival 2024 to include headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy & Avenged Sevenfold

by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 8, 2023 | News

  U.K.’s Download festival will return for its 21st edition (DLXXI) with headliners Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy, and Avenged Sevenfold. Over 70 acts, including Royal Blood, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Pantera, Babymetal, Fear Factory, Atreyu,...
Watch first official Download Pilot UK highlight video

Watch first official Download Pilot UK highlight video

by Mark Zapata | Jun 23, 2021 | News, Video

  Download Pilot, you may recall, was the first camping only festival to be held at the incredible Donington Park located near Castle Donington in England. Download Festival, usually held here, was a casualty of covid in 2020. But Download Pilot was a 10,000...
Watch first official Download Pilot UK highlight video

Download Pilot Festival seeks to pave the way back for large scale festivals

by Mark Zapata | Jun 21, 2021 | News

  Donington Park is the site for a historical event. As part of the U.K. government’s scientific Events Research Program, Download Pilot will serve as a Petri dish of festivals. The 10,000-capacity camping-only festival took place on June 18-20 and was to...
Watch first official Download Pilot UK highlight video

Download Festival to return in June with limited capacity

by Zenae Zukowski | May 27, 2021 | News

  Download Festival will return to the UK this summer as a pilot event with limited capacity. The event will be part of the second phase of the government’s Event Research Programme, with a 10,000 capacity. The festival will be held in Donington Park on June...
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Rainbow announce ‘The Temple of the King 1975–1976’ box set
Rainbow announce ‘The Temple of the King 1975–1976’ box set

Rainbow will celebrate the earliest and most influential years of their career with The Temple of the King 1975–1976, a comprehensive 9-CD box set arriving March 6, 2026, via Edsel Records. Newly mastered by Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham, the collection marks the first...

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Gluecifer drop “I’m Ready” Video
Gluecifer drop “I’m Ready” Video

If you’re American, the easiest way to understand Gluecifer is to imagine what it would feel like if a band like the Ramones, or maybe the MC5, disappeared for two decades and then returned without any interest in explaining themselves. No oral history, no apology...

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Catch up now: 6 new songs/videos recently released – 12/22/2025
Catch up now: 6 new songs/videos recently released – 12/22/2025

New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk last week with 47 new songs, this week brings a festive batch of six new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums or live performances. Metal Insider has collected songs...

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New & Noteworthy: Releases is a Grave – 12/19/2025

New & Noteworthy: Releases is a Grave – 12/19/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week sees new muisc from the likes of Peter Criss, Dead Sun and Lychgate amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t...

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New & Noteworthy: Mirror Releases – 12/12/2025

New & Noteworthy: Mirror Releases – 12/12/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This New Music Friday sees new releases from the likes of Volumes, Lord Of The Lost and Windswept, as well as the debut full-length...

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New & Noteworthy: Blood of the Releases – 12/5/2025

New & Noteworthy: Blood of the Releases – 12/5/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Kicking off the month of December, we will see new releases from the likes of Enthroned, Upon A Burning Body, and Blood Red Throne, as...

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