Download UK adds 65 artists to 2018 bill

Download organisers have added 65 artists to this year’s UK bill.

Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N’ Roses and Avenged Sevenfold will headline the 2018 event, which will take place from June 8-10 at Donington Park.

In November, artists including Marilyn Manson, Babymetal, Asking Alexandria, In This Moment, Body Count Ft. Ice T, Parkway Drive, Bullet For My Valentine and Black Veil Brides were confirmed, but today’s announcement is the biggest yet.

Black Stone Cherry, Thunder, Baroness, Volbeat, Cradle Of Filth, Marmozets, Tesseract, L7, Dragonforce, Greta Van Fleet, Kreator, Corrosion Of Conformity, Von Hertzen Brothers, Myrkur, All Them Witches and more have now been announced, while Korn’s Jonathan Davis will perform a solo set.

A full list of artists confirmed for the weekend of rock and metal can be found below, along with the latest linup poster.

Tickets for Download 2018 are available via the official festival website.

Download UK 2018 - confirmed artists

Alexisonfire
All Them Witches
Asking Alexandria
Avenged Sevenfold
Babymetal
Baroness
Black Stone Cherry
Black Veil Brides
blessthefall
Body Count Ft. Ice T
Boston Manor
Bullet For My Valentine
Bury Tomorrow
Cancer Bats
Corrosion Of Conformity
Cradle Of Filth
Dead Cross
Death Blooms
DragonForce
Dream State
Emmure
Employed To Serve
Gold Key
Greta Van Fleet
Guns N’ Roses
Hatebreed
Higher Power
In This Moment
Inglorious
Jamie Lenman
Jonathan Davis
Knocked Loose
Koyo
Kreator
L7
Less Than Jake
Malevolence
Marilyn Manson
Marmozets
Mayday Parade
Meshuggah
Milk Teeth
Miss May I
Monster Truck
Myke Gray
Myrkur
Neck Deep
No Hot Ashes
Ozzy Osbourne
Parkway Drive
Plini
Powerflo
Puppy
Rise Against
Rolo Tomassi
Savage Messiah
Shinedown
SHVPES
Sleep Token
Stick To Your Guns
Stray From The Path
Sun Arcana
Tesseract
The Bottom Line
The Bronx
The Faim
The Hives
The Hyena Kill
The Maine
The Pink Slips
The Struts
The Temperance Movement
Thrice
Thunder
Thy Art Is Murder
Tigress
Turbonegro
Volbeat
Von Hertzen Brothers
Wayward Sons
Whiskey Myers
Woes
WSTR
You Me At Six
Zeal & Ardo

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