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10 bands that defined Download 2024

From historic Download debuts to returning heroes, surprise sets to stage dives in the mud, these are the 10 performances that defined an unforgettable weekend at Donington

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"An all-singing, all-dancing front row seat at the most joyous show in heavy metal." Ghost's first movie Rite Here Rite Now is an instant classic

From its retina-singeing visuals to its stunning camerawork and heartfelt emotional punches, Rite Here Rite Now is a triumph

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Universal Music has signed a deal to train Artificial Intelligence to make "ultra-high fidelity vocal models" of artists signed to the label

Meanwhile, there's still no cure for cancer

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Fever 333 return with ferocious track New West Order, announce extensive US/Europe tour

Jason Aalon Butler’s rap metal unit have a stacked 2024 ahead

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“It’s part science fiction, part western gunslinger with a heavy dash of post-apocalyptic survival”: Progressive doom maestros Oceans Of Slumber announce Where Gods Fear To Speak album, release elegant single Poem Of Ecstasy

The US doom favourites will release album six in September, and its new single is as gorgeous as it is crushing

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Kirk Hammett says Metallica don’t tour enough: “What it’s all about is playing guitar and writing, recording, going out on tour”

Metallica’s guitarist wants to spend more time on the road, according to his recent appearance on the metal titans’ podcast

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Heilung announce UK and Ireland Rituals for April 2025

Pagan folk trio Heilung will release live album Lifa Iotungard (Live At Red Rocks 2021) in August

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Noise trailblazers Health announce UK dates with Gost and Zetra

The L.A. trio will quite literally bring the noise when they hit Europe this year

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Watch Hollywood star Jason Momoa's new band ÖOF TATATÁ play classics by Metallica and Black Sabbath

Aquaman star Jason Momoa's band ÖOF TATATÁ made their debut live performance in April and are now playing club shows

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Axl Rose appears on an upcoming Michael Schenker album of classic UFO songs

The first song released from Michael Schenker's My Years With UFO album stars Slash and former Skid Row man Erik Grönwall

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“I have zero respect for those guys. They're not good human beings.” System Of A Down's Serj Tankian slams Imagine Dragons for ignoring his concerns about 'art-washing' a genocidal dictatorship

“If you are that blind to justice that you will go play a show in a country that's starving another country, illegally... I don't know what to say about you as a human being”

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"A glorious, beautiful, wonderful return: you really should have been there." The Black Dahlia Murder just put on the most vital and emotional set of Download 2024; it sucks more people weren't there to see it

The Black Dahlia Murder move into an emotional new chapter in glorious fashion at Download

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"There aren't many metal bands that can live with Machine Head." Robb Flynn's warriors remind Download Festival what they've sorely missed

Machine Head finally returned to Download - and how!

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"Wes Borland still dresses like a hard rock Grace Jones and Fred Durst still holds 80,000 people in the palm of his hand." Limp Bizkit show Download why they remain metal's greatest party band

Download bears witness to why no one does it quite like Limp Bizkit

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“There is nothing cooler in this world than being a good dad.” A more mature but ever boundary-pushing Avenged Sevenfold bring Download's most challenging year to a close in style

After a weekend of torrential rain, endless mud and regular sound issues, Avenged Sevenfold remind us all of what Download is really all about

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“Download Festival headliners in the making”: While She Sleeps put on yet another metalcore masterclass in Donington

At Download 2024, metalcore maestros While She Sleeps gave the UK’s biggest rock weekender a spectacle of rage, hooks and pyro

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"A supremely assured return from a band who are intent on creating something fresh, new and exciting." Kittie have completed one of modern metal's great comebacks with Fire

Twenty five years on from nu metal breakthrough Spit, Fire proves that Kittie are a vital modern metal band with plenty left to say

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Cello, synths, bagpipes and melodic death metal: Scottish husband-and-wife duo Hand Of Kalliach are doing folk music a little differently

Hand Of Kalliach are your favourite folk metal band you haven't heard of yet

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"At a certain point we beat Britney Spears!" How Ice Queen made Within Temptation symphonic metal's first superstars - and changed heavy music forever

With Ice Queen, Within Temptation helped to crystallise the scene we know today as symphonic metal

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"This is going to be the best show of our career!" Black Veil Brides and Creeper announce spooktacular co-headline Wembley Arena show

Goth rock BFFs Black Veil Brides and Creeper will team up for a historic show at one of the UK's most legendary venues

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Gene Simmons wishes he was harder on former Kiss members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss over their substance abuse issues

Kiss star Gene Simmons says if he was harder on them, Ace and Criss might have been in the band until the final shows

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"It's just not going to happen": Geezer Butler shares his doubts about a final Black Sabbath show

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler also says he still doesn't know why original drummer Bill Ward was fired

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“I’ve come to the conclusion that madness is sometimes a decision”: how Devin Townsend quit weed, unscrambled his brain and made the classic Ki album

The story behind The Devin Townsend Project’s 2009 debut album, Ki

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“What we’ve done is to move beyond metal. There are so many ideas here that expand our horizons”: how Judas Priest reached for the sky with divisive double album Nostradamus

Judas Priest released their controversial double album Nostradamus on June 16, 2008

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“These bikers came bursting into our place. I’m sure we would have been killed”: how violence, rocket attacks and the Cold War helped Voivod make 80s prog-thrash masterpiece Dimension Hatröss

The story of Voivod’s ground-breaking 1988 album Dimension Hatröss, the album that helped shaped modern prog metal

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