{"id":76908,"date":"2019-09-23T17:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=76908"},"modified":"2019-09-23T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T22:17:08","slug":"download-fest-2020-bands-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=76908","title":{"rendered":"DOWNLOAD FEST 2020 &#8211; Bands Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download11-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76909\" width=\"272\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download11-1.jpg 959w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download11-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download11-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download11-1-600x601.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download11-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download11-1-768x769.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\nA handful of artists have been revealed for the 2020 installment of the UK&#8217;s Download Festival, which will take place June 12-14, 2020 in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Headliners for the event are Iron Maiden, Kiss, and System Of A Down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Additionally, Deftones, Korn, The Offspring, Gojira, Alestorm, Black Veil Brides, Of Mice &amp; Men, Daughtry, and Disturbed have also been confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Tickets for the event go on sale this Wednesday, September 25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/people\/kiss-iron-maiden-and-system-of-a-down-to-headline\/article_7bb17cbb-0281-5227-bdc0-c25b070bd926.html\">St. Louis Dispatch<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">The &#8216;Rock and Roll All Nite&#8217; group, who embarked on their final &#8216;End of the Road World Tour&#8217; in January, will rock Donington Park&#8217;s main stage one last time on June 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/genedork.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76915\" width=\"432\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/genedork.jpg 720w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/genedork-600x428.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/genedork-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Frontman Gene Simmons said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve said it before, Download Festival audiences are the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&#8220;They are up for whatever is thrown at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&#8220;KISS is going to come fully prepared to rock their world in 2020 to say Thank You for always showing up for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Whilst guitarist Paul Stanley promised to bid farewell in spectacular style to thank their UK fans for supporting them for more than four decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">He added: &#8220;Download will be the culmination of 47 years of unapologetic bombast and spectacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&#8220;We will make this a fitting farewell to a country and its people whose music remains the blood in our veins.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Iron Maiden and System of a Down join KISS as the headliners for next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DL2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DL2020<\/a> announcement is (officially) here&#x1f918;&#x1f525; Get ready to ROCK with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kiss<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IronMaiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IronMaiden<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/systemofadown?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@systemofadown<\/a> and MORE!&#x1f918;&#x1f525; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Barclaycard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Barclaycard<\/a> customers can enjoy 48 hours of exclusive presale access + get 10% off before general sale on Wed 25 at 2pm &#x1f39f;&#x1f449; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6tvIs7tIDz\">https:\/\/t.co\/6tvIs7tIDz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JwIp7Vdsp2\">pic.twitter.com\/JwIp7Vdsp2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Download Festival (@DownloadFest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DownloadFest\/status\/1176119048775639041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p><\/p><\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of artists have been revealed for the 2020 installment of the UK&#8217;s Download&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76916,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76908\/revisions\/76916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}