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4 minutes ago, Audiorocker said:

My guess is Volbeat and Skindred tomorrow. Other bands filling the lower stages.

Supposedly only one logo sized band in the announcement tomorrow and doesn’t seem to be Volbeat going off of what has been posted by someone in the know.

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The Hives headlining Opus is literally fine.

 

Pretty sure they have played that position before and are definitely bigger than Opus headliners Steel Panther. Probably on par with Within Temptation in terms of venues.

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On 21/02/2026 at 13:38, Siddey1994 said:

One of the DL admin team has confirmed that 5 day camping has sold out. Weird that they didn’t announce low ticket availability beforehand, though I suspect some shuffling may be done behind the scenes to create another allocation of these tickets.

This!! They would have milked it publicly if it was sold out already. I don’t doubt they’d shifted a lot of tickets due to the vastly supportive reaction to the lineup.

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2 hours ago, OllieJ77 said:

This!! They would have milked it publicly if it was sold out already. I don’t doubt they’d shifted a lot of tickets due to the vastly supportive reaction to the lineup.

This + fallow year at Glasto says to me it’s not out of the realm of possibility that it’s selling out, but yeah I can’t deny the lineup ticks a lot of boxes this year.

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4 hours ago, Andre91 said:

Supposedly only one logo sized band in the announcement tomorrow and doesn’t seem to be Volbeat going off of what has been posted by someone in the know.

I reckon we’ll get 2, one bigger logo and then a smaller logo band. If it’s not Volbeat as Judas has said who does it leave? FFDP yet to announce European leg. MIW are busy but no Europe dates for summer. ADTR and ATL in Europe at the time. I still think Volbeat are an option as they are about and had a uk tour at the time of the first announcement so could have asked to be on the second one as to not effect their ticket sales. The Story So Far have a few uk dates in June so if they haven’t got Avalanche headliners down could they be one of them? Skindred have teased being there. 
 

Guess we will find out in 12 hours ahha

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10 hours ago, alexs7 said:

The Hives headlining Opus is literally fine.

 

Pretty sure they have played that position before and are definitely bigger than Opus headliners Steel Panther. Probably on par with Within Temptation in terms of venues.

They haven’t. They’ve headlined the avalanche before. 

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14 hours ago, alexs7 said:

The Hives headlining Opus is literally fine.

 

Pretty sure they have played that position before and are definitely bigger than Opus headliners Steel Panther. Probably on par with Within Temptation in terms of venues.

 

The Hives are categorically not a second stage headline band and nor with they ever be again.

12 hours ago, Siddey1994 said:

This + fallow year at Glasto says to me it’s not out of the realm of possibility that it’s selling out, but yeah I can’t deny the lineup ticks a lot of boxes this year.

 

Glastonbury has nothing to do with Download, look at the two booking policies at them. Glastonbury will be looking to book acts in the 90% majority that Download just won't, even with Deftones not being at Glastonbury to fulfill to pull Download still haven't got them this year. 

10 hours ago, OllieJ77 said:

I reckon we’ll get 2, one bigger logo and then a smaller logo band. If it’s not Volbeat as Judas has said who does it leave? FFDP yet to announce European leg. MIW are busy but no Europe dates for summer. ADTR and ATL in Europe at the time. I still think Volbeat are an option as they are about and had a uk tour at the time of the first announcement so could have asked to be on the second one as to not effect their ticket sales. The Story So Far have a few uk dates in June so if they haven’t got Avalanche headliners down could they be one of them? Skindred have teased being there. 
 

Guess we will find out in 12 hours ahha

 

The fact just above this is saying about largely supportive reaction yet all the time on here people are trying to put an option that is unlikely into slots where there are already others bands to seemingly make it look stronger.

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32 minutes ago, northernangel said:

 

The fact just above this is saying about largely supportive reaction yet all the time on here people are trying to put an option that is unlikely into slots where there are already others bands to seemingly make it look stronger.

People will always want bigger and better. It’s up to them where they place bands. I think given the current lineup and history it’s fair to assume one decent sized band.

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5 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I'll day fair enough on that, but that's such a dead alot. I dont think the first 3 were hard to guess though lol. Saturday main stage is terrible to be honest.

 

Still better than the Saturday when GNR last headlined lol 

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