Download reveals the first additions to the 2010 line-up

[music-spy]

AC/DC are confirmed as one of the headliners for Download 2010, playing Donington this June - pinch yourself to make sure you're not dreaming!

Joining AC/DC and following two incredible sold out shows at Hammersmith Apollo before Christmas, are supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. If that wasn't enough we've also confirmed Deftones along with Stone Temple Pilots, Bullet For My Valentine, Megadeth, Motörhead, Wolfmother and Volbeat, with many, many more to be announced in the coming weeks.

Returning to Donington Park from June 11th – 13th 2010, Download Festival will this year be celebrating 30 years of rock at the prestigious site, commemorating the very first Monsters of Rock Festival that took place way back in 1980.

Tickets for this year’s Download go on presale to all Download subscribers at 9am on Thursday 28th of January.

[music-spy]

legendary multi-million selling AEROSMITH and double Grammy-winning RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will join AC/DC as headliners of the 8th Download Festival.

Celebrating 40 years as America’s Greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll band, Aerosmith will return to the main stage at Donington Park for the first time in 16 years. Last playing as headliners of the Donington Monsters Of Rock festival in 1994 and 1990, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry et al return with their legendary juggernaut performance, one that has earned them the title of best-selling American rock band of all time. Aerosmith have sold more than 150million albums worldwide and 66.5 million in the US alone.

Rage Against The Machine, who in a storm of publicity and heavy campaigning scored the UK Christmas No. 1 single last year, will for the very first time bring their sheer power of political alternative, hip-hop, punk rock to the festival’s main stage. To this day, Rage Against The Machine, who were presented the Hall Of Fame Award by Kerrang! Magazine in 2008, remain one of the most popular and influential political bands in contemporary music.

The excitement doesn’t end there though, as we’ve also added Jared Leto’s phenomenal THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor’s twice Grammy-nominated other band STONE SOUR and iconic punk rocker BILLY IDOL to the line-up.

Also on the bill are Virginia’s heaviest metallers LAMB OF GOD, and the incredible FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, who were one of the biggest highlights from last year’s festival.

Don’t miss your chance to experience these band, plus over a hundred others when Download returns to Donington Park in June, celebrating 30 years of rock heritage.

Tickets to Download 2010 are on sale now - GET YOURS HERE.

[music-spy]

Next Download announcement is at 6pm on Monday April 12th, check it out at downloadfestival.co.uk.

[deanooo_2]

Full line-up so far....

FRIDAY JUNE 11th 2010

MAIN STAGE
AC/DC
THEM CROOKED VULTURES
WOLFMOTHER

SECOND STAGE
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
COHEED & CAMBRIA
36 CRAZYFISTS
JOB FOR A COWBOY
UNEARTH
LAWNMOWER DETH

SATURDAY JUNE 12th 2010

MAIN STAGE
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
DEFTONES
MEGADETH
LAMB OF GOD
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
HELL YEAH
TAKING DAWN

SECOND STAGE
THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS
HIM
THE BLACKOUT
VOLBEAT
WE ARE THE FALLEN
RISE TO REMAIN
Y&T

SUNDAY JUNE 13th 2010

MAIN STAGE
AEROSMITH
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
MOTORHEAD
BILLY IDOL
CINDERELLA
SAXON
RATT
DOMMIN

SECOND STAGE
STONE SOUR
AIRBOURNE
STEEL PANTHER
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
AUGUST BURNS RED
WHITECHAPEL

[music-spy]

14 new bands added to the Download Festival line-up:

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
GENITORTURERS
KILLING FOR COMPANY
GODSIZED
MAX RAPTOR
THE MORNING AFTER
BEN POOLE
FUNERAL PARTY
IMICUS
THE HUMOUR
THE DEAD LAY WAITING
T-34
ESOTERICA
SKIN

[jovalin]

hmm nah, Corsair Obsidian still better