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Last night, Download announced a whopping 22 band that we ran a fine tooth-comb over so that we could bring you this definitive guide to what you can expect at this year’s Download festival!
Steel Panther – After a sold-out tour of the UK, Steel Panther will be bringing their fun-filled set to Download for the second year running. We hope they’ve got some new jokes by June. It’s all starting to get a bit Bo Selecta, innit?
Best track: Party All Day (Fuck All Night)
HIM – Having graced the cover of a recent issue of Metal Hammer and released their best album since ‘Love Metal’ (yes, it is, because we say so), HIM are a welcome addition to the Download bill. It’s been a while since Ville graced Donington with his presence and now that he’s cut out all of the off-stage debauchery, he’ll actually be able to sing properly. Hurrah!
Best track: Buried Alive By Love
Saxon – Valiant defenders of the faith and giving the tr00 metal contingent something to wave their swords in the air about. They also played the very first Donington Monsters Of Rock festival 30 years ago. Respect is due. They’ll be playing their Wheels Of Steel album in its entirety.
Best track: Motorcycle Man
Airbourne – Yeahbourne! One of the greatest live bands on the circuit and with a kick-ass new album, the Aussie hellraisers will be the ultimate band to down a pint to and lose your fucking mind! One of the top 10 bands you could book on a festival today, no doubt.
Best track: Blonde, Bad & Beautiful
Coheed & Cambria – When you need a presence onstage to capture the hearts and minds of tens of thousands of people, there’s only one thing that can do the trick – a massive barnet. Oh and loads of awesome prog-tinged rock anthems to go completely nuts to. That’ll do nicely.
Best track: Welcome Home
36 Crazyfists – A massive welcome back to one of our favourite bands in the whole wide world. 36 Crazyfists are guaranteed to slam out 45 minutes of non-stop anthems to get the pit bouncing like Tigger on disco biscuits. Let’s fucking do this!
Best track: Slit Wrist Theory
Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis is one of the best albums of 2010 and their shows at the Camden Barfly were two sets that reaffirmed your love for inventive, forward-thinking music. This isn’t opinion, it’s fact. The Dillinger Escape Plan are coming to Download 2010. you’d better bring a tin helmet.
Best track: Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants
Dommin – Rock music that’s in touch with it’s emotion. Slayer fans have just vomited blood but it’s actually pretty decent. Fans of HIM will have just caught them on their UK tour and it was allegedly pretty killer. You can see it for yourselves on the main stage on Download Sunday.
Best track: My Heart, Your Hands
Taking Dawn – 80’s hair metal revivalists Taking Dawn may not be bringing anything new or revolutionary to the table, but what they lack in originality, they make up for in big tunes. They’re yet to make their UK live debut but we’ll be casting our beady eyes on them on the upcoming Airbourne tour.
Best track: Time To Burn
Unearth – Showcasing some of the best beatdowns to ever grace heavy music, Unearth are not only one of the best live bands to have ever come from metalcore, they’re one of the best bands in live music. Miss these guys at your peril.
Best track: Black Hearts Now Reign
Cinderella – Having just played their first live show in 3 years, 80’s bluesy-rockers Cinderella will be looking to continue the classic rock vibes that worked so well at Download 2009. It’s also their first UK show since 1903. Well, it’s been ages. You know what we mean.
Best track: Gypsy Road
A Day to Remember – One of the biggest success stories of the past 24 months, ADTR have seen their star rise and rise down to an ability to combine some of the catchiest choruses around with brutal beatdowns. These guys are going to go supernova in the next 12 months, catch them while you can.
Best track: I’m Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?
Lawnmower Deth – Nottingham’s veteran thrashers and owners of the greatest band name in the history of all time. If they bring their cover of the Osmand’s ‘Crazy Horses’ to the party, shit is going to go off.
Best track: Flying Killer Cobs From The Planet Bob
Whitechapel – Fresh from the road supporting Trivium, Whitechapel’s metallic assault is a hybrid of metalcore and deathcore that’s won them a lot of new admirers as of late. They’re also named after the London borough that’s the 2nd cheapest on the monopoly board. You’re welcome.
Best track: Possesion
August Burns Red – One of those cult bands that have a serious amount of credibility more than a fanbase in numbers. They slayed it with Lamb Of God earlier this year and BMTH last year. One more time won’t hurt us, will it?
Best track: Meddler
Ratt – 80’s hair metallers will turn up, sport massive hair and play ‘Round And Round’. What more do you want? FYI Gill says that their new album is pretty good too.
Best Track: Round And Round (what else?)
The Blackout – They’re nice guys. They’re actually really funny when you get to know them. We’re not convincing you, are we? It’s that pink streak he had in his hair and the photos of him biting his bottom lip that did it, isn’t it? When you put it like that, we can’t argue with you.
Best track: Children Of the Night
We Are the Fallen – The Irish girl from the year before last’s American Idol and that bloke who used to be in Evanescence’s new band. The Idol girl’s pretty hot and her husband has got tattoos on his face. That’s pretty metal, right?
Best track: Bury Me Alive
HellYeah – Vinnie Paul rides his hard rockers into Donington for the second time. Their second album is coming up this summer and we can’t wait for that sucker to drop! Hell yeah? Hell fucking yeah!
Best track: HellYeah (There’s a theme emerging here).
Y&T – Formed in 1974, Y&T specialize in hard rock/heavy metal. They’ve released 11 studio albums and 3 live albums. We definitely haven’t just taken this from their Wikipedia page.
Best track: Summertime Girls
Rise to Remain – Rising British metalcore crew that continue to garner more attention and praise as each month passes. Big response at hammerfest and on their recent run with Trivium. We almost got through this without mentioning that Austin is Bruce Dickinson’s son, didn’t we? Dammit.
Best track: Purify
Job For A Cowboy – Regulars at Download, Job For A Cowboy still rank amongst the most influential bands within deathcore. Their ‘Genesis’ album blew the doors open for the likes of The Black Dahlia Murder and Trigger the Bloodshed to reach new sets of eyes and ears.
Best track: Reduced To Mere Filth
Bands confirmed for this year’s Download festival thus far: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Rage Against The Machine, Them Crooked Vultures, Deftones, Stone Temple Pilots, Bullet For My Valentine, Stone Sour, Megadeth, Motorhead, HIM, Airbourne, Steel Panther, Billy Idol, Lamb Of God, Volbeat, Five Finger Death Punch and many, many more to still be announced. Get Download 2010 tickets here!
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