Metal Hammer at Download Festival 2014
Everything you need for this year's Download festival

As every rock and metal fan is surely aware, this weekend is Download Festival at Castle Donington. And if you can't make it (or even if you are here), this is your one stop shop for everything Hammer are doing over the weekend.
NEWS
Black Stone Cherry in surprise Donington return
Ginger Wildheart: “Lemmy’s my icon and he’s better than your icon”
Fall Out Boy still loving their reunion sex
Aerosmith entranced by ‘fabled’ England
Dying Fetus didn’t keep up with online campaign
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Bury Tomorrow in lucky escape from own fans
TBDM: Metallica Glasto move showed us the way
Dayal’s fight to reach for Skyharbor
Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach bounced back from bar job
Ugly Kid Joe saved at Donington
Wylde runs Black Label Society like Page ran Led Zeppelin
Offspring’s Smash hit was trying time
Tesla live in fear of being bottled
Everywhere’s cool but home, say Radkey
King 810 jailed on the way to UK
Within Temptation: Xzibit had to Google us
FRIDAY
REVIEW: Avenged Sevenfold headline the Download main stage
REVIEW: Opeth headline the Pepsi Max stage
REVIEW: Rob Zombie on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Anathema on the Pepsi Max stage
REVIEW: Black Label Society and Within Temptation on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Powerman 5000 and Skindred on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Miss May I and Crossfaith open Download Festival
Download boss Andy Copping’s picks of the Friday bill
SATURDAY
REVIEW: Linkin Park headline the Download main stage
REVIEW: Status Quo headline the Zippo Encore stage
REVIEW: Behemoth headline the Pepsi Max stage
REVIEW: Twisted Sister on the Zippo Encore stage
REVIEW: Orange Goblin and Monster Magnet on the Zippo Encore stage
REVIEW: Killswitch Engage and Bring Me The Horizon on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Bury Tomorrow and While She Sleeps on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Iceman Thesis, Dying Fetus and Fozzy open the second day
Download boss Andy Copping’s picks of the Saturday bill
SUNDAY
REVIEW: Aerosmith close Download Festival
REVIEW: Trivium headline the Zippo Encore stage
REVIEW: Alter Bridge on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Steel Panther on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Volbeat on the Download main stage and Black Stone Cherry on the Pepsi Max stage
REVIEW: Sepultura and Sabaton on the Zippo Encore stage
REVIEW: Thy Art Is Murder and Feed The Rhino on the Pepsi Max stage
REVIEW: Richie Sambora and Joe Bonamassa on the Download main stage
REVIEW: Red Dragon Cartel, Winger, The Graveltones and Buckcherry on the Download main stage
Luke Morton joined Metal Hammer as Online Editor in 2014, having previously worked as News Editor at popular (but now sadly defunct) alternative lifestyle magazine, Front. As well as helming the Metal Hammer website for the four years that followed, Luke also helped relaunch the Metal Hammer podcast in early 2018, producing, scripting and presenting the relaunched show during its early days. He also wrote regular features for the magazine, including a 2018 cover feature for his very favourite band in the world, Slipknot, discussing their turbulent 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone.