Donington Park is getting very loud next summer, with more than 100 acts already confirmed for Download Festival 2027
Clear the diary and locate the tent you optimistically shoved into the loft after festival season. Download is heading back to Donington Park next summer, and its first line-up announcement is enormous.
The rock and metal behemoth returns to its spiritual home in Leicestershire from June 9 to 13, 2027, with blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon and Evanescence announced as the three headliners.
And that’s very much just the top line.
More than 100 acts have been revealed for Download XXIV so far, including Mötley Crüe, The Prodigy, Faith No More, Turnstile, Parkway Drive, Pierce The Veil, I Prevail, The Hives, Body Count featuring Ice-T, PVRIS, Clutch, Static-X, Carcass, Napalm Death, Malevolence, Converge and Soft Play.
In other words, Donington isn’t planning a particularly quiet June.
blink-182 are finally playing Download
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that, despite decades at the pointier end of pop-punk, blink-182 have never actually played Download before.
That changes in 2027, when they’ll make their festival debut as headliners.
Bring Me The Horizon, meanwhile, are back at the top of the bill following their headline performance at Download in 2023, while Evanescence, fronted by Amy Lee, will become the second female-fronted act to headline the festival.
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There’s plenty further down the poster to get excited about, too.
Mötley Crüe are promising a special performance, while The Prodigy should provide one of the weekend’s more reliably unhinged live shows.
Then there’s the slightly surreal prospect of 5 Seconds of Summer sharing a Download bill with the likes of Napalm Death, Carcass, GWAR, Kreator and Body Count. Whatever your preferred level of guitar-based chaos, there’s probably something here for you.
Other names worth circling include Basement, Bilmuri, Cancer Bats, Carpenter Brut, Comeback Kid, Dayseeker, Deaf Havana, Ghostemane, HEALTH, High Vis, Holding Absence, Hot Mulligan, Jinjer, Primus, Senses Fail, SPEED, Static Dress, Terror, The Devil Wears Prada, Trash Talk and Waterparks.
And those aren’t even all of them.
Download 2027 is already selling fast
Festival organisers say Early Bird tickets sold out within two weeks and that 2027 is currently the fastest-selling Download to date.
That’s before the complete line-up has even been announced, with further acts and other surprises still promised.
So, yes, if spending five days in a Leicestershire field watching some extremely loud people do extremely loud things sounds like your idea of a good time, you might not want to leave sorting tickets until next spring.
When is Download Festival 2027?
Download Festival 2027 takes place at Donington Park, Leicestershire, from Wednesday June 9 to Sunday June 13, 2027.
Tickets are on sale now via Download Festival. [https://us…99d8e204bf]
Who is playing Download Festival 2027?
The headliners announced so far are:
- blink-182
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Evanescence
They’ll be joined by more than 100 acts, including Mötley Crüe, Turnstile, The Prodigy, Faith No More, Parkway Drive, Pierce The Veil, I Prevail, PRESIDENT, 5 Seconds of Summer, The Hives, Body Count ft. Ice-T, PVRIS, Primus, Static-X, Clutch, Carcass, Napalm Death, Malevolence, Converge, Soft Play, Basement, Bilmuri, Waterparks, Jinjer, Terror, Cancer Bats, Comeback Kid, HEALTH, High Vis, Holding Absence, Hot Mulligan, Carpenter Brut, Kreator, GWAR and Senses Fail.
More names are still to be announced.
