Stage splits and more acts for Download

Download takes place at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, over the weekend of 9-11 June. Weekend tickets are still available HERE!

Day tickets go on sale next Wednesday (3 May) priced at £55 per day.

As well as announcing seven new acts, organisers have also revealed details of stage splits and band running orders for the first time. Download 2006 will go something like this... 

FRIDAY 9 JUNE

MAINSTAGE
TOOL
DEFTONES
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
COHEED & CAMBRIA
SOULFLY
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD

THE SNICKERS STAGE
THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS
ATREYU
INME
CLUTCH
SEVENDUST
FISHBONE
DREDG
BLEEDING THROUGH
THROWDOWN

GIBSON/ MYSPACE. COM
GINGER & THE SONIC CIRCUS
BACKYARD BABIES
CATHEDRAL
ENGERICA
MY AWESOME COMPILATION
THE AUDITION

SATURDAY 10 JUNE

MAINSTAGE
METALLICA
KORN
TRIVIUM
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
STONE SOUR
ALICE IN CHAINS
ARCH ENEMY
BLOOD SIMPLE

THE SNICKERS STAGE
ALTER BRIDGE
OPETH
WITHIN TEMPTATION
SECRET MACHINES
BILLY TALENT
DEVIL DRIVER
SIKTH
JOHNNY TRUANT

GIBSON/ MYSPACE. COM
KILLING JOKE
REUBEN
THIS IS MENACE
10 YEARS
FLYLEAF
MANIC
TO MY SURPRISE
EXIT TEN
STONEGARD

SUNDAY 11 JUNE  

MAINSTAGE
GUNS N' ROSES
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
CRADLE OF FILTH
LACUNA COIL
In Flames
36 CRAZYFISTS
DRAGONFORCE
HATEBREED

THE SNICKERS STAGE
THE PRODIGY
ALEXISONFIRE
EIGHTEEN VISIONS
HUNDRED REASONS
AIDEN
FIGHTSTAR
FROM FIRST TO LAST
SOILWORK
ZEBRAHEAD
GOD FORBID

GIBSON/ MYSPACE. COM
SICKOFITALL
SKINDRED
MONEEN
BLINDSIDE
PROTEST THE HERO
MENDEED
LAUREN HARRIS
VOODOO SIX
BRING ME THE HORIZON
THE ZICO CHAIN
WINTERVILLE

OTHER ACTS CONFIRMED: EVERGREY, GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY

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