Live Review: Download Festival 2025 – Friday
From rising melodic rock to anthemic emo rock classics, to bonafide punk legends, here’s what we saw on day 1 of Download Festival 2025.
23rd June 2025
From rising melodic rock to anthemic emo rock classics, to bonafide punk legends, here’s what we saw on day 1 of Download Festival 2025.
Find out where you can see SikTh, Kids In Glass Houses, Superheaven, Orbit Culture, Snayx, and Lastelle in the coming months
Today sees new releases from Malevolence, Yungblud, HAIM, Badflower, En Masse, Last Hounds, Death Pill, Hiroe, and more.
With a new label home of Century Media, the genre-bending metallers serve up a synth-driven journey of self-discovery and rebirth.
Quirky Minnesota pop-punk make a comeback as they announced their first album in a decade. Also, hear its first single – ‘She Is Afraid’.
Watford collective will be taking new album ‘Slow Fade’ out on the road in the Autumn.
This week sees releases from Metallica, Letlive., Queens of the Stone Age, The Cure, Buckcherry, The Young Hearts, Archers, and more.
Prog metallers’ 11th album will be released in September. Take a listen to its first single.
Grace and The Trauma Tropes provide a rebellious punk anthem celebrating LGBTQ+ goths and punks with ‘Wearing Black’.
Ahead of a summer of UK and EU dates, listen to the Scottish rocker’s first new material in four years.
Canadian favourites deliver a healthy dose of rage, and reality with ‘The Lash’s latest preview.
Pop-loving melodic metalcore band Archers pick out 10 songs you HAVE to witness at Download Festival 2025.
The Maryland trio’s second album, ‘Earthkeeper’, will arrive this summer. Hear their massive new single, ‘Anita Ride’.
Swedish kick the doors wide open as they detail their new album, set to be released in October.
The Watford math/emo collective’s new single blends math-rock charm with pedal steel, and nostalgia for MSN chats and Limewire downloads.
Listen to the lengthy second act of ‘No One Was Driving the Car’ ahead of its September release.
Gnarly Californian hardcore punks look to the future ahead of releasing their third album in November.
The Welsh ragga metal mob will be hitting up rarely visited towns and cities later this year.
Preview the must-see bands at Download Festival 2025. From legends to rising stars, here’s who to catch at Donington Park this weekend.
Theatrical punk rockers deliver their “most over-the-top and unashamedly dramatic” single to date.
Today sees new releases Turnstile, Volbeat, Katatonia, My Chemical Romance, The Prestige, Mother Mother, Battlesnake, and more
Ahead of their live debut at Download, the much-talked about band share their second single… and also unmask.
Baltimore hardcore heroes deliver a widescreen, genre-bending and triumphant fourth record that grows with every listen
Slam Dunk Festival sets the bar high as its 2025 gathering delivers a stellar all-dayer with plenty of outstanding sets.
Hear its first single ahead of the album’s August 22nd release.