The first announcement for Download Festival 2026 is here and it includes the three main stage headliners!
Headlining, and all are UK exclusives for 2026, are Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park!
Here are all the acts announced so far (yes there are more to come!): LIMP BIZKIT, GUNS N’ ROSES, LINKIN PARK, ANKOR, ARCHITECTS, AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS, AS IT IS, ASH, BABYMETAL, BAD OMENS, BEHEMOTH, BLACK VEIL BRIDES, BLOOD INCANTATION, BLOODYWOOD, BOUNDARIES, BUSH, CATCH YOUR BREATH, CAVALERA, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, and CYPRESS HILL.
There’s also DECAPITATED, DIE SPITZ, DINOSAUR PILE-UP, DOGSTAR, DRAIN, DROWNING POOL, EGO KILL TALENT, ELDER, ELECTRIC CALLBOY, FEEDER, GATECREEPER, HALESTORM, HEADWRECK, HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD, and HOLYWATR.
Also announced are ICE NINE KILLS, IMMINENCE, ivri, JAMES AND THE COLD GUN, KUBLAI KHAN TX, LAKE MALICE, LAKEVIEW, LANDMVRKS, LAST TRAIN, letlive., LOWEN, MAGNOLIA PARK, MAMMOTH, MASTODON, MELROSE AVENUE, MOUTH CULTURE, NASTY, NATIVE JAMES, NEVERTEL, P.O.D, PALEFEACE SWISS, PENDULUM, PERIPHERY, PUSSYLIQUOR, RAIN CITY DRIVE, RETURN TO DUST, and RØRY.
Not forgetting SCENE QUEEN, SELF DECEPTION, SET IT OFF, SILENT PLANET, SLAY SQUAD, SLEEP THEORY, SNOT, SOCIAL DISTORTION, SOUTH ARCADE, SPINESHANK, SPITTING GLASS, STATIC-X, STORY OF THE YEAR, SWEET PILL, SWEET SAVAGE, and TAILGUNNER.
There will also be sets from THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, THE PLOT IN YOU, THE PRETTY RECKLESS, THE PRETTY WILD, THORNHILL, THOSE DAMN CROWS, thrown, TOM MORELLO, TRIVIUM, TROPIC GOLD, TX2, unpeople, vianova, WAYSIDE, WE CAME AS ROMANS, and ZERO 9:36.
Download Festival takes place between June 10-14, 2026, at Donington Park.
Tickets are on sale here.
