Het Download Festival is een drie dagen durend rock/metal-muziekfestival, dat jaarlijks wordt gehouden in Donington Park, Engeland. Het festival vindt altijd plaats tegen het einde van het voorjaar, en wordt beheerd door Live Nation.
Geschiedenis Het Download Festival werd oorspronkelijk bedacht als opvolger voor de Monsters of Rock-festivals, die tussen 1980 en 1996 jaarlijks werden gehouden in Donington Park. In plaats van een evenement van slechts een dag werd besloten er een twee dagen durend evenement van te maken. In 2005 werd dit uitgebreid naar drie dagen.
De naam 'Download' werd gekozen om twee redenen. Allereerst vanwege de negatieve klank van dit woord in de muziekwereld (door de illegale handel in muziek), wat volgens de organisatoren goed bij rockmuziek paste daar dit als een rebels muziekgenre wordt gezien. De tweede reden was dat het internet een belangrijke rol zou gaan spelen bij de festivals om het feest wereldwijd toegankelijk te maken voor het publiek.
In 2003 hadden alle kaartjes voor het festival een speciale code, waarmee bezoekers gratis nummers konden downloaden van de bands die hadden opgetreden op het festival. Dit idee werd in latere jaren geschrapt.
Programma 2003 Zaterdag 21 meiMain StageScuzz StageIron Maiden Marilyn Manson Deftones Ministry InMe Murderdolls Amen Funeral for a Friend Stampin' Ground Shadows Fall Murder OneA Reel Big Fish Taproot Sepultura Reef HIM Soil The Hellacopters SikTh 3 Colours Red From Autumn to Ashes QueenAdreena Violent Delight Stiff Cookie Arch Enemy Chimaira
Zondag 1 juniMain StageScuzz StageAudioslave Zwan Flint Apocalyptica Less Than Jake Disturbed Stone Sour Evanescence Mudvayne Spineshank The Darkness One Minute Silence Raging Speedhorn InstructionNOFX Boysetsfire The Bouncing Souls Strung Out Thrice [Spunge] T.S.O.L. Real McKenzies Metallica The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Brand New Instruction Beatsteaks Randy Fabulous Disaster
2004 Zaterdag 5 juniMain StageSnickers "Game On" StageBarfly StageLinkin Park Sum 41 Iggy and The Stooges The Hives The Distillers Cradle of Filth Monster Magnet Opeth The Dillinger Escape PlanPennywise Electric Six Wildboyz Arch Enemy Biffy Clyro Idiot Pilot Million Dead Instruction 36 Crazyfists Akercocke Viking Skull Powder The BledPeaches International Noise Conspiracy Ikara Colt thisGirl Roxy Saint The Glitterati Surferosa Burst Lowfive Yourcodenameis:Milo Bullet for My Valentine The Holiday Plan Hiding Place Fireapple Red
Zondag 6 juniMain StageSnickers "Game On" StageBarfly StageMetallica Korn Slipknot Machine Head Damageplan Soulfly Ill Niño Turbonegro Breed 77HIM Bowling for Soup Taking Back Sunday Slayer Life of Agony Brides of Destruction Drowning Pool Hatebreed Hoobastank Trapt Silvertide Ricky Warwick Terra DiabloSuicide Girls Young Heart Attack Span The Sounds Dirty Americans Recover Amplifier Do Me Bad Things Danko Jones The Black Dahlia Murder Mooney Suzuki Gonga Despised Icon Hurricane Party Planet of Women
2005 Vrijdag 10 juniMain StageSnickers StageNapster StageFeeder Garbage Dinosaur Jr. Megadeth Biffy Clyro The Others JJ72 Idiot Pilot Wednesday 13 Queen AdreenaBilly Idol The Used My Chemical Romance InMe The Bled Apocalyptica Underøath Lordi Fozzy Flogging MollyNapalm Death Raging Speedhorn Paradise Lost A Change of Pace Hurricane Party Tokyo Dragons Colour of Fire Slunt Just a Word Crashdiet Planet of Women
Zaterdag 11 juniMain StageSnickers StageNapster StageBlack Sabbath Velvet Revolver HIM Anthrax Alter Bridge Bowling for Soup A The Mad Capsule Markets The Dwarves TriviumIn Flames Chimaira Lamb of God Bullet for My Valentine Meshuggah Unearth Every Time I Die Open Hand American Head Charge The Hurt ProcessHelmet The Lucky Nine Breed 77 The Explosion Towers of London Johnny Truant The Ga Ga's The Answer Panic Cell Crucified Barbara Diamond Nights Don't Quit Your Day Job City on Fire S.A. Sanctaury
Zondag 12 juniMain StageSnickers StageNapster StageSystem of a Down Slipknot Slayer Nightwish Killswitch Engage Papa Roach Mudvayne Society 1 DV8Motörhead DKT/MC5 Funeral for a Friend Lacuna Coil Mastodon Shadows Fall Helmet Caliban As I Lay Dying Gizmachi Send More Paramedics The Mascara StoryTherapy? Team Sleep Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster The Dresden Dolls The Glitterati The Saints Engerica 3 Inches of Blood Still Remains No Hope in New Jersey Acidtone Henry Rollins (Spoken word "sermon")
2006 Vrijdag 9 juniMain StageSnickers StageGibson/Myspace StageSnickers Bowl StageTool Deftones Coheed and Cambria Soulfly Strapping Young Lad Soil Wicked Wisdom Amplifier The All-American Rejects Atreyu InMe Clutch Fishbone Dredg Bleeding Through Gojira Throwdown Suns of the TundraGinger & The Sonic Circus Backyard Babies Cathedral Engerica Bullets & Octane My Awesome Compilation Animal Alpha The Audition Art of Dying Enter Shikari Kitty HudsonGay for Johnny Depp Keiko SinTuition
Zaterdag 10 juniMain StageSnickers StageGibson/Myspace StageSnickers Bowl StageMetallica Korn Trivium Avenged Sevenfold Stone Sour Alice in Chains Arch Enemy Bloodsimple Satyricon DownAlter Bridge Opeth Within Temptation Secret Machines Billy Talent Henry Rollins DevilDriver SikTh Johnny Truant KhomaKilling Joke Reuben Mondo Generator Louie This Is Menace 10 Years Flyleaf Manic It Dies Today Living Things Exit Ten Colon Open Bracket Stonegard My AlamoGet Cape. Wear Cape. Fly getAmped The Hedrons
Zondag 11 juniMain StageSnickers StageGibson/Myspace StageSnickers Bowl StageGuns N' Roses Funeral for a Friend Bullet for My Valentine Cradle of Filth Lacuna Coil In Flames 36 Crazyfists DragonForce Hatebreed Breed 77The Prodigy Alexisonfire Eighteen Visions Hundred Reasons Aiden Fightstar From First to Last DevilDriver Zebrahead God ForbidSick of It All Lordi Skindred Moneen Darkest Hour Blindside Mendeed Bring Me the Horizon The Zico Chain Voodoo Six Lauren Harris Winterville Streetlight Youth I-Def-IViking Skull Betty curse Evergrey
2007 Vrijdag 8 juniMain StageDimebag Darrell StageTuborg StageMy Chemical Romance Velvet Revolver Wolfmother DragonForce Megadeth Hinder Buckcherry Zico ChainKorn Enter Shikari Paramore Porcupine Tree Saosin From Autumn to Ashes Turbonegro Ill Niño ANJSuicidal Tendencies Hayseed Dixie Yourcodenameis:Milo Job for a Cowboy The Hedrons Sanctity I Was a Cub Scout The Scare This Et Al Fortune Drive Drive-by Argument
Zaterdag 9 juniMain StageDimebag Darrell StageTuborg StageLinkin Park Marilyn Manson Slayer Machine Head Bowling for Soup 30 Seconds to Mars Aiden Shadows Fall Hellyeah TurisasMötley Crüe Satellite Party Biffy Clyro My Vitriol My Dying Bride Gallows Anathema As I Lay Dying Bring Me the Horizon Bloodsimple Elliot Minor Cat the Dog S.A. SanctuaryHead Automatica Necro The Answer Silverstein Lez Zeppelin Architects Priestess Panic Cell Beyond All Reason My Alamo Damone Army of Freshmen Malpractice Zondag 10 juniMain StageDimebag Darrell StageTuborg StageIron Maiden Evanescence Killswitch Engage Stone Sour Lamb of God Mastodon Papa Roach Chimaira Reuben ParikramaBilly Talent Dream Theater Dimmu Borgir Within Temptation Napalm Death Paradise Lost Orange Goblin DevilDriver Unearth Cancer Bats After Forever EyelashReel Big Fish Fastway Cult of Luna Lauren Harris Fair to Midland Kids in Glass Houses Between the Trees Flood of Red Lights. Action! Still Remains In This Moment The Ghost of a Thousand LostAlone
2008 Vrijdag 13 juniMain StageTuborg StageGibson StageKiss Judas Priest Motörhead Disturbed Seether Finger Eleven Black TideSimple Plan Rise Against Rival Schools The Subways The Fall of Troy Comeback Kid The Black Dahlia Murder Stone Gods ZebraheadThe Dillinger Escape Plan Kill Hannah Slaves to Gravity High on Fire In Case of Fire Blackhole Hostile Firewind Caimbo Rolo Tomassi Lovvers
Zaterdag 14 juniMain StageTuborg StageGibson StageThe Offspring Incubus Bullet for My Valentine Biffy Clyro Alter Bridge Madina Lake 36 Crazyfists Job for a Cowboy Skindred SignHIM Ash Pendulum Ace Frehley Amon Amarth Bleeding Through Throwdown A Day to Remember The Devil Wears Prada Alesana Annotations of an Autopsy MaleficeTestament Saxon Johnny Truant Fighting With Wire Brigade Army of Freshmen The Haze Big Linda The Last Supper Trigger the Bloodshed Mexicolas Go:Audio Rise to Remain Verra Cruz
Zondag 15 juniMain StageTuborg StageGibson StageLostprophets Jimmy Eat World Coheed and Cambria In Flames Within Temptation Apocalyptica Black Stone Cherry Fightstar From First to Last Glamour of the KillCavalera Conspiracy Children of Bodom The Wildhearts Elliot Minor Kids in Glass Houses Chiodos Airbourne Rose Tattoo Lethal Bizzle Municipal Waste Animal Alpha Cry for SilenceJonathan Davis and the SFA Valient Thorr Haunts August Burns Red Voodoo Six Between the Buried and Me Ted Maul Canterbury Exit Ten The Galvatrons Sons of Albion Devil Sold His Soul InvasionLine Up | https://web.archive.org/web/20121119034146/http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/lineup/index.aspx
2009 Vrijdag 14 juniMain StageSecond StageTuborg StageRed Bull Bedroom Jam StageFaith No More Korn Limp Bizkit Killswitch Engage Billy Talent Staind The Blackout Hollywood UndeadMötley Crüe Opeth Lacuna Coil Bring Me the Horizon Dir En Grey Parkway Drive A Day to Remember In This Moment SteadlürMeshuggah Duff McKagan's Loaded Backyard Babies Voivod Enter Shikari Middle Class Rut Lauren Harris Sylosis Bleed from Within Hunting the Minotaur SleepercurveBlackhole New Device DissolvedIn Linchpin Don Broco The Outcry Collective White Man Kamikaze Young Guns Tripswitch The Instigators
Zaterdag 15 juniMain StageSecond StageTuborg StageRed Bull Bedroom Jam StageSlipknot Marilyn Manson Pendulum DragonForce Down Hatebreed DevilDriver Five Finger Death Punch Ripper OwensThe Prodigy Chris Cornell You Me at Six The Answer Static-X Fightstar In Case of Fire Hardcore Superstar Symphony Cult The CraveAnvil Architects Thunder Lawnmower Deth Man Raze General Fiasco Billy Boy on Poison Loverman S.A. Sanctuary Facecage Black Spiders No Americana Acid DropThe Blackout This City People in Planes My Passion The Auteur None the Less 13 Riots Forever Never Serpico The Computers Japanese Voyeurs Auger Bane
Zondag 16 juniMain StageSecond StageTuborg StageRed Bull Bedroom Jam StageDef Leppard Whitesnake ZZ Top Dream Theater Journey Black Stone Cherry Skin Tesla Stone Gods Trivium Papa Roach Buckcherry Clutch Shinedown Volbeat Karma to Burn Sevendust God Forbid Suicide Silence Trigger the Bloodshed Sacred Mother TongueGo:Audio Therapy? The 69 Eyes Sabbat Steel Panther Dear Superstar Hexes Hostile esOterica Pulled Apart by Horses Turbowolf Violent Soho BridesWe Are the Ocean Flood of Red Exit Avenue First Strike Twin Atlantic Attack! Attack! Logan Fei Comodo Jett Black Million $ Reload Raucous Jays Fall from Grace
2010 Vrijdag 11 juniAC/DC StageMaurice Jones StageRonnie James Dio StagePepsi Max StageRed Bull Bedroom Jam StageJägermeister Acoustic StageAC/DC Them Crooked Vultures Killswitch Engage 36 Crazyfists Unearth Bullet for My Valentine Coheed and Cambria A Day to Remember Anathema Trigger the Bloodshed Job for a Cowboy As I Lay Dying Tyketto Lawnmower Deth Sweethead Year Long DisasterDevil Sold His Soul Funeral Party Heights Never Means Maybe Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders Imicus The HumourSkin Jettblack Sondura Starseed Danny Vaughn
Zaterdag 12 juniAC/DC StageMaurice Jones StageRonnie James Dio StagePepsi Max StageRed Bull Bedroom Jam StageJägermeister Acoustic StageRage Against the Machine Deftones Megadeth Lamb of God Five Finger Death Punch Flyleaf Atreyu Hellyeah Taking Dawn 30 Seconds to Mars HIM The Blackout Volbeat We Are the Fallen Cancer Bats My Passion Rolo Tomassi Sonic Syndicate Rise to Remain Michael Monroe Skin Y&T Senser Enuff Z'nuff Halestorm Rock Sugar Genitorturers Reckless Love Sybreed Holy Grail Killing for Company GodsizedBreed 77 Glamour of the Kill Kadawatha This Is Divine Stand Up Guy No Mean City