Download 2026

[OllieJ77]

1 hour ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Friday

Apex: NIN, Bad Omens, Motionless in White, Coheed & Cambria, Ministry 

Opus: A Day to Remember, State Champs 

Avalanche: President 

Dogtooth: Testament 

 

Saturday

Apex: Blink 182, Yungblud, Ice Nine Kills, Hot Milk, Wargasm 

Opus: Trivium, Mastodon

Avalanche: Bilmuri

Dogtooth: Dimmu Borgir 

 

Sunday

Apex: Linkin Park, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Malevolence, Mudvayne

Opus: Electric Callboy, Cannibal Corpse

Avalanche: All American Rejects 

Dogtooth: Zeal & Ardor

 

This will be better than the final result I reckon 

[OllieJ77]

13 minutes ago, craigcharles420 said:

NIN 

Could be them they’ve been mentioned before. I’d be more intrigued by them than GnR but I still think it’s GnR LB and LP sadly. Several people have said it them despite person I know saying it isn’t.

[partypirate]

I'm going Blink - NIN - LP

 

Blink have a US festival booked in Feb which puts them as active

NIN - makes sense with new album and rumoured in past. If not NIN, then Tool

LP - pretty much confirmed

 

This also covers the clues

[sw25]

I've thought Blink 182 for a while and GNR although they might make a few people groan are now a reliable and consistent band. they came to the rescue at Glasto a few years ago and can slot into any Download lineup if the initial headliners fall through.

 

GNR / Blink 182 / LP would be a very good set of headliners but would not surprised to see a less expensive option like Limp Bizkit or Biffy instead of Blink.

[Andburn]

In Cardiff today 🤷🏻‍♂️

[craigcharles420]

NIN/LP/LB would be lovely. I know Blink would draw a crowd but not my cuppa.

[Marka23]

10 minutes ago, Andburn said:

In Cardiff today 🤷🏻‍♂️

So does that mean it's in Cardiff then?

[partypirate]

5 minutes ago, Marka23 said:

So does that mean it's in Cardiff then?

Believe similar seen in Birmingham too. My guess is a show at Knebworth.

[Andburn]

5 minutes ago, Marka23 said:

So does that mean it's in Cardiff then?

Possibly. Not seen any posters anywhere else yet. 

[Marka23]

25 minutes ago, partypirate said:

Believe similar seen in Birmingham too. My guess is a show at Knebworth.

If they're advertising all over the country for a one off show it's going to be somewhere big like Knebworth 

[ThatDazFella]

19 minutes ago, Marka23 said:

If they're advertising all over the country for a one off show it's going to be somewhere big like Knebworth 

Hopefully Knebworth with a strong lineup of support bands. Great for us oldies that did the old big one day events back in the day. I know it won't be at BTS but the Black Sabbath day back in 2014 was a fantastic day.

[Marka23]

13 minutes ago, ThatDazFella said:

Hopefully Knebworth with a strong lineup of support bands. Great for us oldies that did the old big one day events back in the day. I know it won't be at BTS but the Black Sabbath day back in 2014 was a fantastic day.

I can see the supports being about 6 bands or so, something like Def Leppard, Judas Priest, Slayer/Megadeth, Anthrax, Diamond Head and probably The Raven Age because Steve threatens to pull the whole event if they're not there. 

[Spiral_Low]

27 minutes ago, Marka23 said:

I can see the supports being about 6 bands or so, something like Def Leppard, Judas Priest, Slayer/Megadeth, Anthrax, Diamond Head and probably The Raven Age because Steve threatens to pull the whole event if they're not there. 

Judas Priest, Machine Head, Halestorm, Kreator and Employed To Serve would be my wish list. 

[northernangel]

4 hours ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Disagree, their headline set in 2019 was outstanding. People say the same about NIN and yet the best set I’ve ever seen them do was outdoors at the Eden project, and half of that was in daylight. 

 

Didn't they pull a small crowd as well?

3 hours ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Friday

Apex: NIN, Bad Omens, Motionless in White, Coheed & Cambria, Ministry 

Opus: A Day to Remember, State Champs 

Avalanche: President 

Dogtooth: Testament 

 

Saturday

Apex: Blink 182, Yungblud, Ice Nine Kills, Hot Milk, Wargasm 

Opus: Trivium, Mastodon

Avalanche: Bilmuri

Dogtooth: Dimmu Borgir 

 

Sunday

Apex: Linkin Park, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Malevolence, Mudvayne

Opus: Electric Callboy, Cannibal Corpse

Avalanche: All American Rejects 

Dogtooth: Zeal & Ardor

 

 

Saturday and Sunday ticket just about for Mudvayne.

[Marka23]

14 minutes ago, northernangel said:

 

Didn't they pull a small crowd as well?

 

They had Slayers 'final' UK show against them which was arguably a bigger draw 

[Marka23]

16 minutes ago, Spiral_Low said:

Judas Priest, Machine Head, Halestorm, Kreator and Employed To Serve would be my wish list. 

For a Maiden gig I'd say that's a bit on the heavy side, especially Employed To Serve, Kreator and Machine Head. 

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

13 minutes ago, northernangel said:

 

Didn't they pull a small crowd as well?

I wouldn’t say it was small, it certainly wasn’t Biffy levels. But they clashed with Slayer’s ‘final’ ever UK show, were on the Sunday night of a wet and muddy weekend and aren’t exactly known for being a band for the ‘casuals’ anyway. 

[RedJosh]

17 hours ago, northernangel said:

If RAR nailed down Foos, Maiden and LP i'd buy a ticket without hesitation.

I've been Rock AM Ring and if we ever do one of those again we'd do IM Park. Organisation is bad, more corporate than LN events, no signposting, no traditional transport is near the fest at all and the tarmac is a f**king killer on your joints if you are moshing.

[Mstuart2499]

15 minutes ago, RedJosh said:

I've been Rock AM Ring and if we ever do one of those again we'd do IM Park. Organisation is bad, more corporate than LN events, no signposting, no traditional transport is near the fest at all and the tarmac is a f**king killer on your joints if you are moshing.

I did Im Park this year and it was amazing, weather was crap and did get boggy but getting to the festival was super simple and was back to my hotel within 45 minutes every night

[Gejonimo]

I'm very surprised at how optimistic people's predictions are. 

 

Blink/NIN/LP/GnR/Tool/Foos are all mad expensive, I can't see how they get three of those. You'll get one, maybe two, as long as one of them is NIN. 

 

For the third and possibly second, you've got to lower your expectations. Yungblud, Limp Bizkit, Slayer, Biffy, Shikari, Prodigy, Muse, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Bad Omens, though those last two are arguably expensive as hell too.

[RedJosh]

57 minutes ago, Mstuart2499 said:

I did Im Park this year and it was amazing, weather was crap and did get boggy but getting to the festival was super simple and was back to my hotel within 45 minutes every night

Yeah, it was wet at AM Ring. You had to walk into the fest through a small boggy bit of land that they didn't touch, but everything else was on tarmac, so it didn't matter too much. They do anything to try to deal with at IM Park?

 

We stopped in the only town that had shuttles in and out every day and it was 70km away. Let's just say if I ever had to do AM Ring again, I would not use that service. Was awful.

 

Line-up was outstanding though and tickets were only like €229. 

 

It is different to IM Park though as camping is included and there is a €79 euro per person precept for camping with parking and day/arena only parking tickets are €79 too, which is rather expensive. However, where it is means that if you don't use a shuttle bus they put on it is your only option to get there as the nearest train station is like 70km away and there are no normal buses heading there. The shuttle busses are like €40 euros for returns too, so if there are two of you it is probably better to get a parking pass anyway.

[NorthernSoul52]

Booked a Cardiff hotel for Maiden, so will need to pre-emptively figure things out if they are at Knebworth.

[Marka23]

58 minutes ago, Gejonimo said:

I'm very surprised at how optimistic people's predictions are. 

 

Blink/NIN/LP/GnR/Tool/Foos are all mad expensive, I can't see how they get three of those. You'll get one, maybe two, as long as one of them is NIN. 

 

For the third and possibly second, you've got to lower your expectations. Yungblud, Limp Bizkit, Slayer, Biffy, Shikari, Prodigy, Muse, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Bad Omens, though those last two are arguably expensive as hell too.

Download have had multiple expensive bookings some years. 2010 for example you had AC/DC and Rage Against The Machine and in 2023 it was Metallica twice. 

[TWY2911]

1 hour ago, Gejonimo said:

I'm very surprised at how optimistic people's predictions are. 

 

Blink/NIN/LP/GnR/Tool/Foos are all mad expensive, I can't see how they get three of those. You'll get one, maybe two, as long as one of them is NIN. 

 

For the third and possibly second, you've got to lower your expectations. Yungblud, Limp Bizkit, Slayer, Biffy, Shikari, Prodigy, Muse, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Bad Omens, though those last two are arguably expensive as hell too.

 

More expensive doesn't always mean better, bands decide what they want to charge and I guarantee more people would buy day tickets for Limp Bizkit than for Tool or NIN (not saying Bizkit are better just that they'd definitely sell more tickets if they headlined next year) 

[craigcharles420]

1 hour ago, Gejonimo said:

I'm very surprised at how optimistic people's predictions are. 

 

Blink/NIN/LP/GnR/Tool/Foos are all mad expensive, I can't see how they get three of those. You'll get one, maybe two, as long as one of them is NIN. 

 

For the third and possibly second, you've got to lower your expectations. Yungblud, Limp Bizkit, Slayer, Biffy, Shikari, Prodigy, Muse, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Bad Omens, though those last two are arguably expensive as hell too.

Hey, NIN/Muse/Deftones would be f**king killer imo