Download 2023: first line-up announcement includes Metallica, Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon, Ghost, Evanescence, Pendulum, Disturbed and much more

Download 2023 has made an official announcement of its first lineup for the first ever four-day version of the festival, which will happen June 8-11, 2023 at Donington Park, for its 20th anniversary.

Metallica will headline two nights, playing a unique sets with no repeated songs on Thursday and Saturday of the festival. Other headliners are Bring Me The Horizon on Friday night, and Slipknot, on Sunday.

Other names announced for Download 2023 include Alexisonfire, Architects, The Distillers, Disturbed, Evanescence, Ghost, I Prevail, Parkway Drive, Pendulum, Placebo, Simple Plan, Ville Valo and Within Tempation.

Also announced were As December Falls, Asking Alexandria, Aviva, Bambie Thug, Beauty School Dropout, Behemoth, Blackgold, The Blackout, Blind Channel, Bloodywood, Brutus, Crashface, Crawlers, Dead Sara, Elvana, Enola Gay, Fever 333, Fixation, Kid Bookie, Kid Papichi, Lake Malice, Lorna Shore, The Meffs, Mod Sun, Monuments, Motionless In White, Municipal Waste, Nothing, Nowhere, Nova Twins, Polaris, Pupil Slicer, Seether, Set It Off, Sim, Soen, Soul Glo, Stand Atlantic, Stray From The Path, Taylor Acorn, Terror, Three Days Grace, Touché Amoré and Witch Fever.

You can get ticket info here.