Download Festival 2027 has loaded its first major wave, and it is not easing into the next edition. blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon and Evanescence lead a 100-artist announcement for Donington Park, running from 9–13 June 2027.
The poster reaches across several generations of heavy music without losing Download’s personality. Pop-punk sits next to modern metalcore, industrial electronics, hardcore and foundational alternative metal. The important detail is printed at the bottom: this is still a partial lineup, with more names to come.
Essential Details for Download Festival 2027
- Dates: 9–13 June 2027
- Location: Donington Park, United Kingdom
- Tickets: Available through the official Download Festival ticket page
- Nearest airport: East Midlands Airport
- Current lineup status: First 100 artists announced, with more to follow
Three headliners, three different versions of Download
blink-182 will headline Download for the first time. The booking gives the festival a huge pop-punk centrepiece and brings one of the genre’s defining catalogues to the top of the Donington bill.
Bring Me The Horizon return as a band built for this scale. Their path from abrasive early metalcore to arena-sized, genre-blurring rock makes them one of the most natural modern Download headliners.
Evanescence complete the headline trio. Their mix of gothic atmosphere, heavy guitars and Amy Lee’s unmistakable voice has travelled far beyond the early-2000s moment that made them famous, and this billing recognises that longevity.
The upper bill is unusually deep
The Prodigy, Mötley Crüe and Faith No More give the poster a serious second line. That is before reaching Pierce The Veil, Turnstile, Parkway Drive, 5 Seconds of Summer, I Prevail, The Hives, Bilmuri, PVRIS, DOWN, Primus, Body Count ft. Ice-T, Kreator, Carpenter Brut and Converge.
The result is less a single-lane rock weekend than a map of where Download’s audience has expanded. There is classic hard rock, festival-sized alternative metal, hardcore with crossover reach and a strong run of younger acts capable of moving up the poster quickly.
The complete first Download Festival 2027 lineup
Download has announced the following 100 artists. No official day or stage assignments have been published yet, so every name remains listed without invented scheduling details.
- 5 Seconds of Summer
- Ally Nicholas
- Ando San
- ASAVA
- Basement
- Better Lovers
- Big Ass Truck I.E.
- Bilmuri
- blink-182
- Body Count ft. Ice-T
- Bodysnatcher
- breakkaway
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Cage Fight
- Cancer Bats
- Carcass
- Carpenter Brut
- Castle Rat
- Cenobia
- Clutch
- Comastatic
- Comeback Kid
- Converge
- Currents
- Dayseeker
- Deaf Havana
- DeathbyRomy
- Dexter and The Moonrocks
- Dogma
- DOWN
- Dragged Under
- EMNW
- Evanescence
- Faith No More
- Fit For A King
- Ghostemane
- grandson
- Guilt Trip
- GWAR
- HANABIE.
- Hawthorne Heights
- HEALTH
- Heaven’s Basement
- High Vis
- Highly Suspect
- Holding Absence
- Hollow Pact
- Honey Revenge
- Hot Mulligan
- I Prevail
- Jinjer
- Karen Dió
- Kreator
- Ladrones
- Locked Shut
- Malevolence
- Maple’s Pet Dinosaur
- Mötley Crüe
- Murderdolls
- Nails
- Napalm Death
- Nasty
- never easy
- Orbit Culture
- Pain Of Truth
- Paledusk
- Parkway Drive
- Pierce The Veil
- Point North
- PRESIDENT
- Primus
- PVRIS
- Reclus.É
- Riff Wood
- sace6
- Senses Fail
- Showing Teeth
- SKYND
- SOFT PLAY
- Soil
- SPEED
- Split Chain
- SPLIT DOGS
- Static Dress
- Static-X
- Terror
- The Dark.FM
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Hives
- THE HOWLING
- The Prodigy
- The Raven Age
- Trash Talk
- Turnstile
- Villanelle
- VIOLENT VIRA
- Waterparks
- Windwaker
- Winona Fighter
- XCOMM
What stands out below the logos
The lower half is where this announcement earns its depth. Basement, Better Lovers, Cancer Bats, Clutch, Currents, Dayseeker, Fit For A King, Ghostemane, HANABIE., HEALTH, High Vis, Hot Mulligan, Jinjer, Malevolence, Napalm Death, Orbit Culture, Static Dress, Static-X, The Devil Wears Prada and Waterparks could each be a major draw for a different corner of the crowd.
There are also plenty of newer names worth arriving early for. Ally Nicholas, Ando San, ASAVA, breakkaway, Cenobia, Hollow Pact, Reclus.É, Showing Teeth, THE HOWLING, Villanelle and VIOLENT VIRA give the first wave a discovery layer rather than leaving the small print as an afterthought.
Planning for Donington
Do not treat the current poster as the final schedule. It confirms artists, not performance days, stages or set times. Those details should only be added once Download publishes them officially.
Build around the full five-day event window. The official edition dates are 9–13 June 2027. Camping, travel and entertainment arrangements can cover more than the main arena programme, so check the festival’s official information before booking transport.
Keep weather flexibility in the packing list. Donington can shift quickly between sun, wind and rain. Waterproof footwear and layered clothing are more useful than trying to predict the forecast months in advance.
Watch for the next wave. The launch poster explicitly says more artists will be announced. The most useful update will be the one that adds confirmed names without losing this first 100.
A strong opening move
Download has started 2027 with scale, but the real strength is the spread. The headliners are enormous, the second line could anchor festivals of its own, and the undercard keeps moving between metal, punk, hardcore, industrial and alternative rock.
Secure your tickets through the official Download Festival website.
