It is well and truly festival season and Download Festival are shouting out band names thick and fast.Over the weekend of 8-10 June 2012 at Donington Park Slash will return with his solo project featuring Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy. Megadeth, whose last appearance at Donington pulled in huge crowds, also join the decade celebrations.
Other new additions include melodic hardcore punk group Rise Against, LA glam rockers Steel Panther, ferocious punk four-piece Billy Talent and US heavy metallers Black Label Society.
Kyuss Lives!, the incarnation of the influential stoner rock band Kyuss, will unleash their desert rock fury on Donington, joined by Five Finger Death Punch, industrial metal four-piece Fear Factory and prog-metallers Periphery.
Yorkshire rockers Terrorvision are also confirmed, joined by British rocker Ginger Wildheart, Grammy-nominated metalcore group As I Lay Dying and Finnish glam metal group Reckless Love for one of the biggest weekends in the rock calendar.
Tickets et al at www.downloadfestival.co.uk
