Limp Bizkit, Korn And More Join Download Bill

Download Festival organizers announced a bumper load of bands for this year’s event on Monday (January 14).

The likes of Korn, Limp Bizkit, Down and Cancer Bats will join the already confirmed Iron Maiden, Slipknot and Rammstein for the three day event which takes place from June 14th to June 16th.

Limp Bizkit have issued the following statement via Facebook:

"We are really excited to play India February 16 and 17. It's been long enough! We've always wanted to visit there. Also – plans for an exclusive USA run are underway for April/May. Did somebody say Sonisphere and Download after that?!! And the UK? And Europe? And Russia? And Australia? And Asia? It cannot be!! Let'z get your Bizkit on!!!"

The list of newly announced bands is as follows:

Limp Bizkit

Jimmy Eat World

Down

Korn

Asking Alexandria

Parkway Drive

Motionless In White

Young Guns

Cancer Bats

Hacktivist

Enter Shikari

Five Finger Death Punch

Walking Papers

Huntress

Hardcore Superstar

Converge

Airbourne

Amon Amarth

Black Dogs

In this Moment

HellYeah

I AM I

Last Witness

The Hives

Heaven's Basement

Earthtone9

3 Doors Down

Goldsboro

UFO

Vision Of Disorder

The Sword

Buffalo Summer

Comments

[jordo246]

Inb4 the *******s who think the bill should only have bands they like

[raoooos]

don't cry bby

[sykest70]

I don't see a band that I like.

[Braykah]

So the way I see it, there's a mix of everything: Around 10 good bands (Down, Parkway Drive, Amon Amarth, The Sword, etc), same amount of boring or just plain awful bands (Limp Bizkit, Korn, AA, Motionless in White), and the rest being pretty anonymous.

[vppark2]

I see the same thing as u, and Converge!!

[Camron62\m/]

dude KoRn is awesome. but i agree.

[MetalRock4ever]

It's good that Korn's coming back to play again. It was a shame when I heard they were on hiatus :/

[MetalRock4ever]

It's good that Korn's coming back to play again. It was a shame when I heard they were on hiatus :/

[Kornholic]

Good to see Hacktivist getting some exposure!

[HAZ-121]

The Download lineup has been getting progressively worse these past few years, to the point where there are about 4 good ones so far this year.

[MetalHermit]

Take limp bizkit out and put shadows fall,gojira,arch enemy and slayer in.

[MthrfknBrkdwN]

Wow you're cool, you must be "true".

[miregal]

The Sword

[robo37]

The only band I like from the list is Korn, not if they're going to play dubstep though...

[MetalxAnthony]

\m/

[slash_015]

I'm german :'( Wanna see down so hard, but they never come to germany. Damn!

[MetalMovieNerd]

This years Download line up is incredibly sub-par compared to last year. The only exceptions to that list are Amon Amarth and Down. Aside from that, I'm not excited for Download.

[Logan_B]

This has to be one of the best lineups EVER. I mean, how can you go wrong with 5FDP Airbourne, Amon Amarth, Rammstein,In This Moment, Hellyeah, 3 Doors Down, Korn, Iron Maiden, BFMV, 30STM, QOTSA,Stone Sour,ADTR, Volbeat, and Jimmy Eat World all playing the same place.

That's like a lifetime worth of awesome music all in one place, why can't we have amazing festivals like this in Canada?

[TTP Penguin]

There's a few good bands on that list for me (and the headliners are again immense), but compared to last years bill as a whole which had 3 quarters of the big 4, prodigy, slash, BLS, LoG etc, it just doesn't seem as good.

[red_hot_chili18]

BLACK DOGS check em out!

[MetalRock4ever]

Slipknot, Korn, Parkway Drive, Motionless in White... this is a festival I wanna go to

[MthrfknBrkdwN]

Lineup seems good still this year if you ask me. Most people that complain about bands they don't like on the line-up probably don't even go. Even if they do, it's not difficult to just not go watch them if it really matters that much to them.

[link no1]

I complain and I've been a few times. This line up is pretty terrible though.
It's not going to be as simple as "just not go watch them", especially with the very few bands here I would actually watch. It so far looks like (from my point of view) like I would be watching 3 bands and drinking the rest of the time, the money could be better spent on a normal gig.

Good job I wait until the line-up is pretty full before I buy tickets though, looks like I have saved some money this year.

[Molomono]

That is the worst lineup download has ever had.

I understand that they are trying to keep it interesting for the masses but this list offers almost nothing interesting to those who have gone the past couple of years.

[munkybusiness]

Opeth should drop the mellow set and bring back a 2005 setlist and show up and show every limp bizkit fan there what metal actually is.