

Meanwhile, The Avalanche Stage will welcome blistering sets from rock upstarts AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS and pop-punk trio MEET ME THE ALTAR. For those looking for a steadier start to proceedings, A.A WILLIAMS will be serenading The Dogtooth Stage with her alluringly simple brand of all things heavy. With material from Profound Morality looking to dot the set, we’re sure to open with a bang. Starting as Download Festival means to go on, the festival kicks off with metal darlings HERIOT on The Dogtooth Stage. Pouring over the Clashfinder website deliberating how to be in multiple places at once? Let us as Distorted Sound help you out as we look across all three days and all four stages.

Donington Park will be teeming with ecstatic festival goers as a stacked line-up takes over. The DS team ride at dawn and are set to descend upon the first full-on Download Festival in almost three years. Is there a sweeter time than festival season? The sun is shining (albeit intermittently), tents are receiving an overdue airing out, and the booze aisles of many a supermarket are being pillaged for a cheeky cold one.
