“SCREAM FOR ME, Donington!” is a phrase so woven into the tapestry of heavy metal history, it might as well be the genre’s motto. But, as inconceivable as it is now, following the demise of the legendary Monsters Of Rock festival in 1996, the fields of Donington mostly lay dormant when it came to metal. There was the odd decent event, such as 2002’s one-off Ozzfest, but otherwise headbangers were hardly flocking in their thousands to mosh to the more mainstream likes of Hawkwind, the Levellers and Stereophonics.
That all changed in 2003 with the inaugural Download Festival – abrand new two-day
