I Wish I Could Attend Download This Summer

Someday I'll go to Download. I mean, I could go this year, but I'm saving my money for another Hawaii trip. Choices, choices.

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL has confirmed a whopping 37 incredible additions to its 2013 line-up, including LIMP BIZKIT, JIMMY EATWORLD, DOWN, KORN, AIRBOURNE, ENTER SHIKARI and CANCER BATS. They join headliners Slipknot, Iron Maiden, and Rammstein, as well as Bullet for My Valentine, Mastodon, Stone Sour,Volbeat and Coal Chamber, for what’s set to be THE biggest weekend in the rock calendar on 14-16 June 2013 at the ‘home of rock’, Donington Park.

Download is pleased to see the return of Fred Durst and co, as Limp Bizkit are confirmed for 2013. This year also sees the return of alternative rockers Jimmy Eat World, Southern metallers Down and nu metal legends Korn, who are coming back to Donington with their founding guitar player Brian ‘Head’ Welch. 

Ahead of their 2013 album release, British metalcore band Asking Alexandria will join the likes of Australian hardcore band Parkway Drive, UK tour buddies Motionless in White and raucous residents on the rock scene, Young Guns on the Download bill. Proving that loud, gritty and ranting punk rock is very much alive, Cancer Bats are also confirmed for their fourth appearance at the mighty Download Festival. With their grime style vocals, ferocious riffs and hard-edged British style, Hacktivist will make their Download Festival debut in 2013.

Post hardcore legends Enter Shikari join the incredible line up alongside Five Finger Death Punch whose infamous live sets are not to be missed. Returning to Donington for asecond year in a row, Duff McKagan will debut his new blues rock band Walking Papers who took the Seattle music scene by storm in 2012. Led by the stunning ‘operatic banshee’ that is Jill Janus, the incredible Huntress join the line up alongside sleaze rock Swedish 4 piece Hardcore Superstar. Their live set is set to pack a punch for punk, and Download fans won’t be disappointed with the addition of the mighty Converge to the line up.

Joining the brutal bill are Aussie rockers Airbourne, melodic death metallers Amon Amarth and the aggressively melodic Black Dogs. Critically acclaimed for their recent album ‘Blood’, industrially inspired In this Moment, will be joined by feel good rock ‘n’ rollers HellYeah. Fronted by ex Dragonforcevocalist, I AM I will see ZP Theart introduce his new band to the Donington crowds. Also joining the incredible line up at the ‘spiritual home of rock’ with their heavy beatdown hardcore are Last Witness.

Stylish Swedish rockers The Hives are confirmed, along with Heaven’s Basement who will bring their ferocious rock ‘n’ roll to Donington, Nottingham’s finest Earthtone9 and U.S.rockers 3 Doors Down.

Making their first Download appearance are metalcore rockers Goldsboro. Also added to the bill are classic British metal rockers UFO, Vision of Disorder - known for their intense live shows - the muscular riffing of Texan heavy metallers The Sword, and souful rockers Buffalo Summer.

Weekend and Day tickets for Download 2013 are on sale now and available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk

Comments

[Metalboy!]

To elaborate a bit further...

Iron Maiden is Prog Rock played loud and fast.

[Him]

A Fictional Tale of Hyperbole:

I attended [fill in the blank] concerts. I saw [blank] when [blank] was [blank]. This happened in either the 70s, 80s, or 90s.

I know a waiter who once watched a dishwasher clean a plate that Clive Burr had touched when Paul Di'Anno passed it to him.

I occasionally reference facts, but prefer to simply reference my experiences.

When it suits me, I ignore comments and go all UP-CAP in an attempt to deflect relevant responses or even qualified claims.

I make this site fun by kicking the hornet's nest. FUN!

[Metalboy!]

HIM! It's not Fiction. It's not Hyperbole. Attack all you want. I lived it, pal, and continue to live it. It's all true and mainly a byproduct of having lived in NYC and traveling to L.A. during the Hair Metal Heyday, but also beginning with seeing shows in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore before that. I also worked at Capital Centre in D.C. I recount my experiences to lend perspective to my opinions.

Do you not occasionally provide anecdotes to your narrative, HIM? I want you to know, regardless of your unwarranted accusations and perhaps deserved condescending comments regarding my words in both substance and style (Pop/hack indexed fingered ramblings) here, I will always admire your insightful "INTELLECTUAL" observations and I look forward to more, though I sense you do not feel the same.

That fact, coupled with the poseurs on here who only pay lip service to Glam Metal in order to endlessly herald The Big Four, etc., at the expense of REAL Rock and Roll, only encourages me more to redouble my efforts to continue to provide a voice influenced by my own ears and not a cult of group think vox populi Power Metal collectivism.

Oh, and by the way, Iron Maiden still s*cks! Too bad most of their shows are sold out (Guess there's no shortage of Neanderthals to fill those arenas) or I would attend one, find a group of seats where I could stretch out and take a nap during the "show".

Let me amend my description of Iron Maiden for you, this time in caps:

IRON MAIDEN ARE NOTHING MORE THAN PROG ROCK TURNED UP LOUD AND PLAYED FAST.

If you wanna call that METAL, by all means, the lemmings await.

So, if you wanna Rock and Roll, I'll take Lemmy over lemmings any day.

[Christian]

Metalboy, you sure do remind me of the 80s. This sort of argument happened then all the time. If you were a metal head, then the music you liked, was all metal, and anything you hated, was not metal. It amused me then and it amuses me now.

[Him]

A fictional tale that poked fun at all of us (note the use of Burr) stirs up an awful lot of spew from one of us. Granted, it didn't rise to the level of "A Modest Proposal" (although I did sprinkle in some irony). But we can all enjoy a bit of the tickle every now and again, can't we?

I have to hand it to you Metalboy! You are consistent. And I appreciate that. So thanks again . . . for the memories and the passion.

[Metalboy!]

Lemmy was in a fairly successful British Prog Rock band, Hawkwind, in the 70's, some albums of which I own. He then up and walked away from it and went completely Rock and Roll with a new band called Motörhead.

Motörhead was quickly categorized as Heavy Metal shortly after it's formation, yet to this day, Lemmy still sticks to his story that they're just a Rock and Roll band.

Christian, YOU are mirroring -- projecting your personal thoughts onto me as though they are now somehow mine when, in all reality, they are yours. YOU are the one who has spent several days in countless Comments on multiple BBG! POSTS claiming most Glam Metal bands aren't actually Metal.

I never said Iron Maiden wasn't Metal. What I did say is that it's just not GOOD METAL. And what I also offered was a brief description of what my ears hear when listening to Maiden -- "Prog Rock played loud and fast".

As far as debating what and what is not Metal, I NEVER had such an argument in the 80's. You indicate you did. We loved it all then and we love it all now, if it's good. That said, however, I am glad I can be of service to you today, offering myself as a Trojan horse to argue with when it is, indeed, only you arguing with yourself. As my lists show, I like bands from every sub-genre of Metal, they just have to be "GOOD" for me to listen to them.

It is YOU, Christian, who are claiming an entire sub-genre of Metal, one for which this site is named, as not Metal.

My Metal net casts wide, while yours, indeed, does not. Our records on the subject are filed in the Comments on many a Post here for all to see to rebut your claims above.

The difference between my Metal vs. your Metal is that mine ROCKS and yours generally S*cks! I say "generally", as there are occasions when our tastes intersect, i.e. Accept.

But, never give up, Christian. I will be happy to not provide you with an argument any day. Also, since you are so easily amused, let us both form a Mutual Metal Amusement Society for all to enjoy in this great discourse on our journey through Metaldom.

[Metalboy!]

Really, HIM?! Spew from one of us? If you are capable, get down from your Rockin' Horse long enough to realize it is not the spew of just one we are encountering.

It is the spew of three, of which, one is you. But the most ridiculous spew indeed emanates from Christian, who does not possess the situational self awareness to realize it is, indeed, he, himself who he is describing in the above remarks about me.

[dj]

sadly i cant make it, im seeing stone sour in february would love to see maiden and slipknot, damn! bullet for my valentine would be awesome, damn im pissed im missing this. not to fond of jimmy eat world though.......