Aussies Heading To The UK For Download Festival: Airbourne, Northlane & More
Download has previously booked Aussie acts such as Karnivool and Make Them Suffer.
Airbourne, Northlane (Credit: Jay Hynes, Kane Hibberd)
The UK’s beloved hard rock and heavy metal music festival, Download, has announced its epic first artist announcement for its June 2025 event.
Starring headliners Green Day, Sleep Token, and Korn – all first-time headliners of the festival – next year’s Download has locked in a diverse batch of acts, including Weezer, Spiritbox, Poppy, Sex Pistols with Frank Carter, The Darkness, Steel Panther, Within Temptation (heading to Australia for the first time in March 2025 for Knotfest Australia), Lorna Shore, and more.
What’s most exciting, however, is the impressive Aussie acts booked for Download 2025. There are metalcore acts such as Northlane and Polaris, hard rockers Airbourne and The Southern River Band, up-and-comers Battlesnake (who received some love from DZ Deathrays in the Download Instagram comments), and rock band Trophy Eyes.
More acts will be announced for next year’s festival in the coming months. Download 2025 will take place at its stomping ground of Donington Park on 13-15 June 2025.
You can check out the Download 2025 line-up below.
This year’s Download included Aussie artists such as Karnivool, Thy Art Is Murder, AViVA, Make Them Suffer, Alpha Wolf, Ne Obliviscaris, and Speed. However, Speed dropped off the line-up just days before the festival was set to take place in protest of one of the event’s sponsors, Barclays Bank.
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Barclays faced controversy this year for its financial involvement in companies that supply weapons to Israel, with artists including Scowl, Zulu and Pest Control pulling out of Download, all unwilling to support the festival or its sponsor during the ongoing Israel-Gaza war.
The Aussie hardcore band said, “SPEED will no longer be playing Download Festival this Friday, June 14 due to the recent news of Barclays Banks sponsorship of the event and their involvement in the war in Gaza.”
As a result of protests, Barclays pulled its sponsorships from Download, Isle Of Wight and Latitude festivals.
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