This weeks announcement

[t8yman]

they were out of their depth, and they followed weezer too, which no one would have bettered anyway.

[MaliciousMike]

It's metallica.

It always is.

ALWAYS.

Has anyone said that it's Ac/Dc?

Used to get that a lot...

[lharris92]

http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2011/02/download_to_announce_more_band.html

some bands tomorrow morning at 12:20 am then the rest wednesday

[thedudeman]

What is the point of an announcment at 12:20. Its gd for me cz its jst as a finish work, bt it jst seems like a stupid time.

[Spengs Muck]

cuz midnight is a really metulz time to announce stuff.

Sonisphere have their announcements right, they do them at decent times so they can trend on twitter and get free promotion. Download havent quite worked that out yet.

[jump]

What is the point of an announcment at 12:20. Its gd for me cz its jst as a finish work, bt it jst seems like a stupid time.

[luckysalt]

cuz they have a deal in place with radio 1, theyve always done announcement at midnight

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

It'll likely be 3 heavier bands otherwise I'd imagine it'd be on Zane Lowe and not The Rock Show. Zane tends to deal with more 'mainstream' bands.

[lharris92]

no suprises for this:

@vf posted this:

"Is this the leaked Download Festival announcement?! Have The Darkness really reformed to play Donnington? http://######/h1hPE1"

which is incidentally what hart attack posted the other day, but got deleted for some reason o.O

[dip]

Twisted Sister

Trash Talk

Duff's Loaded

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/download-2011-announce-3-bands/

[bekimo]

Well that was fun

So Metal Hammer leaked the announcement early. Like they do.

In the end there was Twisted Sister, Duff McKagans Loaded and Trash Talk, then later they added Down to the list.

And then Andy tweeted this:

@KerrangMagazine @DownloadFest You guys rule & have always played the game properly. ALWAYS! Time for some serious changes now

Me thinks he is not amused with Metal Hammer. Not amused at all.

[t8yman]

So when are we gonna get the main announcement then? Kerrap obviously goes to press in a matter of hours (if not already) so someone outside of the download/kerrang cabal has seen the ad. it must be leaked sometime today?

[Spengs Muck]

Not a bad mini announcement; pretty inoffensive

[Spengs Muck]

Surely that poster VF posted cant be real then, it doesnt have any of those four bands on it that got announced.

[Iain76er]

Good announcement. In other news according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter website, Chris Jericho has big Fozzy news about European festivals this week.

Pretty sure that would mean they're being announced.

[theramm]

Just waiting on someone who subscribes to Kerrang to post the announcement. Apparently subscribers usually get their copy via post on Tuesdays.

[spwan-of-the-devil]

Got a mate who does ill see him tonight maybe

[Spengs Muck]

....there are people who subscribe to Kerrang? jesus.