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Saxon, From First To Last, and Glamour Of The Kill, to rock Download

plus Finger Eleven, Stone Gods, Rolo Tomassi, Fighting With Wire and more

By Scott Williams | Published:

Download Festival 2008 - crowd shots (Sunday)
Photo credit: Phil Bull


There's a load more bands added to the line-up for Download Festival, held over the weekend of Friday 13th to Sunday 15th June 2008 at Donington Park, Leicestershire.

Finger Eleven, Glamour Of The Kill, Fall Of Troy, Stone Gods, Malefice, From First To Last, Cry For Silence, Beat Union, Black Hole, and Rolo Tomassi are amongst the new acts announced to play this year's metal festival.

Veteran rockers Saxon join a line-up that now includes Fighting With Wire, The Haze, Big Linda, Last Supper, b>Mexicolas, Caimbo, Voodoo Six, The Galvatrons, Between The Buried And Me, Sons Of Albion, and Army Of Freshman.

They join the headliners Kiss, The Offspring and Lostprophets, and also confirmed are Judas Priest, as 'very special guests', Lemmy's Mötorhead, Rise Against, Jimmy Eat World, Ash, Ace Frehley, Bullet For My Valentine, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis, 36 Crazyfists, Pendulum, Job For A Cowboy, Children Of Bodom, Coheed and Cambria, Alter Bridge, Disturbed, In Flames, Incubus, Kid Rock, Bleeding Through, Throwdown, The Black Dahlia Murder, and The Subways. For the line-up details, days and stage splits as available please click here. There are still more names to come yet.

Tickets for Download are on sale now priced at: a full weekend ticket £130, standard camping £20, camper van £40, family zone camping £20, lockers £11, parking £10 in advance or £15 on the day. To buy your tickets, click here.

Disabled customers can call 0121 767 9729 to discuss accessibility arrangements. Please note, disabled customers will be provided with one free ticket for their helper, where required. Should additional helper tickets be required, please call the disabled access ticket line on 0121 767 9729 or email [email protected].

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