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DOWNLOAD TURNS 21!

AFTER AMASSIVE four-day event to celebrate its 20th anniversary brought a sell-out crowd to Castle Donington, Download Festival is back and raring to go for its 21st birthday!

The 2024 edition will see a return from Avenged Sevenfold, fresh from the release of their surprising, genre-hopping album Life Is But ADream…, plus debut headline sets from Queens Of The Stone Age and Fall Out Boy.

Granted, it’s not the most headline line-up, but after a year that saw Bring Me The Horizon make their headline debut, Metallica play two entirely different sets and Slipknot utter a triumphant roar amid possibly their most chaotic year yet,

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