Download announcements are like buses. You don't get one for ages, then you get three at once!
5 bands already announced  - Def Leppard, Down, Twisted Sister, Trash Talk and Duff McKagan's Loaded. And here are some more.
Sheffield hell raisers Bring Me The Horizon are joined by the multi million selling, Grammy nominated Disturbed, plus Chicago alt-rockers Madina Lake. Download will be Madina Lake’s first UK live performance with bassist Matthew Leone, following his recovery from a brutal attack in his hometown of Chicago last year. 
Fresh from their US tour, Black Stone Cherry have also been added to the Download Festival line up, joined by London political punk rockers The King Blues, American pop-punk band Bowling For Soup, folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner, the ‘battle metal brilliance’ of Finland’s Turisas as well as multi-million selling US pop-rockers Cheap Trick.
And finally, set to have the crowds head-banging in the mosh pits across the weekend, American metalcore band All That Remains join the bill, along with Northampton metallers Sacred Mother Tongue, the hotly tipped metalcore of Asking Alexandria, Christian rock act The Devil Wears Prada, new kids on the block Straight Line Stitch, Midlands rockers Jameson Raid and Japanese self confessed devil worshippers Ghost.