It is with intense disappointment that we announce that My Chemical Romance will not be coming to Australia to play Download. MCR have released the following statement today: “To our dearest friends – It is with heavy hearts that we have decided to postpone our performances in Australia and New Zealand. We felt this was the right decision for our fans, our […]

My Chemical Romance – (Only Aus Shows) Deftones || Jimmy Eat World || Clutch (Only Aus Shows)   Ministry || In Flames || Testament || Alestorm (Only Aus Shows) Carcass|| Lacuna Coil (Only Aus Shows) || Hands Like Houses In Hearts Wake|| The HU || Baroness|| Ne Obliviscaris Bodyjar || New Years Day || Clowns || Venom Prison SKYND || Thornhill ||Disentomb|| Stand Atlantic Plini || […]

Gather your heavy music mates and get ready….. Download will return to Melbourne (new home at Melbourne Showgrounds) and Sydney (back to Parramatta Park) in 2020! Melbourne Friday, March 20 || Showgrounds Sydney Saturday, March 21 || Parramatta Park 1st line-up announcement drops 8.30am Wednesday, Nov 6th Sign up to the newsletter at www.downloadfestival.com.au and follow across socials to make sure you are […]

Sydney Saturday March 9 || Parramatta Park Melbourne Monday March 11 || Flemington Racecourse Ozzy Osbourne Cancellation Airbourne Join Download 2019   SLAYER (Final World Tour) | JUDAS PRIEST (Only Aus Shows) | ALICE IN CHAINS | GHOST RISE AGAINST  (Only Aus Shows) | THE AMITY AFFLICTION (Only Aus Shows) | SUM 41(Only Aus Shows) | ANTHRAX | PENNYWISE (Only Aus Shows) |HALESTORM (Only Aus Shows) BEHEMOTH | ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES | AIRBOURNE  […]

Genre-melding rock outfit Hellions are gearing up for their biggest run of Australian headline shows to date this May, stopping off in Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, with special guests Yours Truly and Dregg lending their support nationally. The band have handpicked some of their favourite Aussie bands to join them along the way including Sleep Talk, The Beautiful Monument,Nautical Mile, Young Lions and Between You & Me. The Sydney four-piece have come off the back of a massive 2018, […]

Sydney Saturday March 9 || Parramatta Park Melbourne Monday March 11 || Flemington Racecourse Introducing the Ascension Stage to Download 2019 Featuring JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED | AVERSIONS CROWN | DEVILSKIN EAT YOUR HEART OUT | THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT   OZZY OSBOURNE (Only Aus Shows) SLAYER (Final World Tour) | JUDAS PRIEST (Only Aus Shows) | ALICE IN CHAINS  GHOST […]

OZZY OSBOURNE (Only Aus Shows) SLAYER (Final World Tour) | JUDAS PRIEST (Only Aus Shows) | ALICE IN CHAINS  GHOST | RISE AGAINST  (Only Aus Shows) | THE AMITY AFFLICTION (Only Aus Shows) SUM 41 (Only Aus Shows) | ANTHRAX | PENNYWISE (Only Aus Shows) HALESTORM (Only Aus Shows)| BEHEMOTH | ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES PREVAIL (Only Aus […]

Sydney Saturday March 9 || Parramatta Park Melbourne Monday March 11 || Flemington Racecourse SUM 41 (Only Aus Shows) PENNYWISE (Only Aus Shows) THY ART IS MURDER || POLARIS TWELVE FOOT NINJA || SLAVES || VOYAGER Are set to join OZZY OSBOURNE (Only Aus Shows) SLAYER (Final World Tour) | JUDAS PRIEST (Only Aus Shows) | ALICE IN CHAINS   GHOST | RISE AGAINST  (Only Aus Shows) | THE AMITY AFFLICTION (Only Aus Shows) | ANTHRAX  HALESTORM (Only Aus Shows)| […]

“I want to be exhausted when I come off that stage, otherwise I feel like I’ve cheated, I don’t want to cheat anybody, I have to be exhausted and I think that’s what the band does and I’m very proud to say that too.” From Release: It’s rare that a career gets a second shot, let alone a whole second […]

“There’s something to be said for playing with the same four guys for thirty years, there’s a sort of element of tightness that you can only get from that familiarity between those four characters…” From Release: Picture this… 1988, Bob Hawke is Prime Minister, Australia dumps $600 million bucks of tax payer cash on Expo 88, Home and Away hits […]

Sydney Saturday March 9 || Parramatta Park Melbourne Monday March 11 || Flemington Racecourse DOWNLOAD 2019  OZZY OSBOURNE SLAYER | JUDAS PRIEST | ALICE IN CHAINS GHOST | RISE AGAINST | THE AMITY AFFLICTION | ANTHRAX  HALESTORM | BEHEMOTH | ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES  I PREVAIL | CONVERGE | FRENZAL RHOMB | LUCA BRASI  CODE ORANGE | ANDY BLACK | THE FEVER 333  […]

Picture this… 1988, Bob Hawke is Prime Minister, Australia dumps $600 million bucks of tax payer cash on Expo 88, Home and Away hits our tellies for the first time, triple j launch the Hottest 100, Nintendo release the Game Boy, free University education is no longer an option, and over in Wellington NZ, the Southernmost capital city in the world, Jon Toogood and Tom […]

“Saturday’s event packed in the fans and sent them home happy…Download was the festival Melbourne’s hard-rock tribes had been waiting three years for.” The Age “Consider Download’s first trip Down Under a success. Same again in 2019 please.” Kerrang! In late March 2018, nearly 30,000 heavy music fans descended on Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne to attend Australia’s first ever Download Festival. Four […]

Maryland rockers CLUTCH are back with their 12th studio record ‘Book of Bad Decisions’ in-store September 7th, 2018 via their own Weathermaker Music label. The album was recorded at Sputnik Sound in Nashville, TN by producer Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather) and consists of 15 new tracks. “With Vance Powell as producer, we were able to make a very different kind of an album. The songs feel as […]

Nearly 30,000 heavy music fans descended on Melbourne on Saturday for Australia’s first Download Festival. After a smattering of rain to kick off, the rock gods smiled, the clouds parted, and pure rock fury ripped through Flemington. International superstars Korn, Prophets of Rage, Limp Bizkit, Mastodon, Gojira, Amon Amarth, and Sabaton delivered stand out sets. Couples got busy tying the […]

Food glorious food, sizzling burgers with mustard! While we’re in the mood, hot pizza and mushrooms! Tacos, donuts and Gozleme! What next is the question? In-di-gestion! Download Melbourne has a plethora of goodies to satisfy your appetite for degustation in 2018! Introducing………. Hell’s Kitchen, the result of asking a bunch of our closest pals and the most inspiring folk in […]

“The fact that Kingswood has made such an experimental move will surprise a lot of music lovers but after a couple of listens to After Hours, Close To Dawn you’ll be very thankful that they were brave enough to go in this direction.” – Heavy Mag “If you’re looking for the most complete work of 2017 to date: welcome.” – STACK “As […]

“If anger is an energy, Shihad’s fury is such that it could power a city for years.” Rolling Stone “Toogood is clearly pissed off with certain states of affairs, and he’s not afraid to say so; fittingly, his bandmates have outdone themselves to match his fury.” The Australian Shihad return to Australian stages this June and July for the first […]