{"id":100741,"date":"2025-11-03T21:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=100741"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:31:36","slug":"download-festical-2026-first-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/download-festical-2026-first-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Guns N&#8217; Roses, and More Announced for Download 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The festival announcements keep rolling in, and it is the turn of the\u00a0<strong>Download Festival<\/strong> to reveal its first wave of bands. It will feature headliners <strong>Limp Bizkit<\/strong>, <strong>Linkin Park<\/strong>, and <strong>Guns N&#8217; Roses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement sees over 90 names being announced, including<strong> Bad Omens<\/strong>, <strong>Cypress Hill<\/strong>, <strong>Trivium<\/strong>, <strong>Halestorm<\/strong>, <strong>Electric Callboy<\/strong>, <strong>Pendulum<\/strong>, <strong>The All-American Rejects<\/strong>, <strong>Mastodon<\/strong>, <strong>BABYMETAL<\/strong>, <strong>Architects<\/strong>, <strong>Ice Nine Kills<\/strong>, <strong>Tom Morello<\/strong>, <strong>Black Veil Brides<\/strong>, <strong>Drowning Pool<\/strong>, <strong>Bush<\/strong>, <strong>Feeder<\/strong>, <strong>Periphery<\/strong>, <strong>Ash<\/strong>,<strong> The Pretty Reckless<\/strong>, <strong>letlive.<\/strong>, <strong>Static-X<\/strong>, <strong>Spineshank<\/strong>, <strong>R\u00d8RY<\/strong>, <strong>Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/strong>, <strong>Magnolia Park<\/strong>, <strong>TX2<\/strong>, <strong>AS IT IS<\/strong>, <strong>Story Of The Year<\/strong>, <strong>Sleep Theory<\/strong>, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>View the full list below.<\/p>\n<p>It will be\u00a0<strong>Linkin Park<\/strong>&#8216;s first time headlining in 12 years, when they performed\u00a0<em>&#8216;Hybrid Theory&#8217;<\/em> in full. <strong>Guns N&#8217; Roses\u00a0<\/strong>will return as headliners seven years on from their 2018 Saturday night slot. Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>Limp Bizkit<\/strong> will be headlining for the first time, having previously headlined the second stage in 2013. They also appeared as sub-headliners to <strong>Avenged Sevenfold\u00a0<\/strong>in 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ah-infobox\" style=\"max-width: 80%; margin: 0 auto 20px auto; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #000; text-align: center;\"><style>.ah-infobox p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }<\/style><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100749\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DXXIII-4.5-640x800.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DXXIII-4.5-640x800.webp 640w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DXXIII-4.5-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DXXIII-4.5-768x960.webp 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DXXIII-4.5-1228x1536.webp 1228w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DXXIII-4.5.webp 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Limp Bizkit<br \/>\nGuns N&#8217; Roses<br \/>\nLinkin Park<\/p>\n<p>Bad Omens<br \/>\nCypress Hill<br \/>\nTrivium<br \/>\nArchitects<br \/>\nElectric Callboy<br \/>\nHalestorm<br \/>\nIce Nine Kills<br \/>\nBABYMETAL<br \/>\nPendulum<br \/>\nThe Pretty Reckless<br \/>\nBlack Veil Brides<br \/>\nBehemoth<br \/>\nMastodon<br \/>\nThe All-American Rejects<br \/>\nFeeder<br \/>\nCavalera<br \/>\nStatic-X<br \/>\nBlood Incantation<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Ash<\/div>\n<div>Bloodywood<\/div>\n<div>Bush<\/div>\n<div>Dogstar<\/div>\n<div>Hollywood Undead<\/div>\n<div>Imminence<\/div>\n<div>Kublai Khan TX<\/div>\n<div>letlive.<\/div>\n<div>LANDMVRKS<\/div>\n<div>Mammoth<\/div>\n<div>Paleface Swiss<\/div>\n<div>Periphery<\/div>\n<div>P.O.D<\/div>\n<div>R\u00d8RY<\/div>\n<div>Scene Queen<\/div>\n<div>Set It Off<\/div>\n<div>Sleep Theory<\/div>\n<div>Social Distortion<\/div>\n<div>Story Of The Year<\/div>\n<div>South Arcade<\/div>\n<div>The Plot In You<\/div>\n<div>Thornhill<\/div>\n<div>Those Damn Crows<\/div>\n<div>thrown<\/div>\n<div>Tom Morello<\/div>\n<div>We Came As Romans<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>ANKOR<\/div>\n<div>As Everything Unfolds<\/div>\n<div>AS IT IS<\/div>\n<div>Boundaries<\/div>\n<div>Catch Your Breath<\/div>\n<div>Corrosion of Conformity<\/div>\n<div>Decapitated<\/div>\n<div>Die Spitz<\/div>\n<div>Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/div>\n<div>DRAIN<\/div>\n<div>Drowning Pool<\/div>\n<div>Ego Kill Talent<\/div>\n<div>Elder<\/div>\n<div>Gatecreeper<\/div>\n<div>Headwreck<\/div>\n<div>Holywatr<\/div>\n<div>ivri<\/div>\n<div>James and the Cold Gun<\/div>\n<div>Lake Malice<\/div>\n<div>Lakeview<\/div>\n<div>Last Train<\/div>\n<div>Lowen<\/div>\n<div>Magnolia Park<\/div>\n<div>Melrose Avenue<\/div>\n<div>Mouth Culture<\/div>\n<div>Nasty<\/div>\n<div>Native James<\/div>\n<div>Nevertel<\/div>\n<div>PUSSYLIQUOR<\/div>\n<div>Rain City Drive<\/div>\n<div>Return To Dust<\/div>\n<div>Self Deception<\/div>\n<div>Silent Planet<\/div>\n<div>Slay Squad<\/div>\n<div>Snot<\/div>\n<div>Spineshank<\/div>\n<div>Spitting Glass<\/div>\n<div>Sweet Pill<\/div>\n<div>Sweet Savage<\/div>\n<div>TAILGUNNER<\/div>\n<div>The Pretty Wild<\/div>\n<div>Tropic Gold<\/div>\n<div>TX2<\/div>\n<div>unpeople<\/div>\n<div>vianova<\/div>\n<div>Wayside<\/div>\n<div>Zero 9:36<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>When and where is Download Festival XXIII?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Download Festival XXIII<\/strong> will take place from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14 June, 2026 at Donington Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the first 90+ acts announced for DLXIII! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559],"tags":[3325],"class_list":["post-100741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-download-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Guns N&#039; 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