This year's Download festival is set to be the biggest festival in the UK (thanks to Glastonbury taking a year out), now in its 10th year and with some of the biggest names in Rock & Metal on the line up it's likely to be the loudest too. It's also likely to sell out (Weekend, Camping and Saturday day tickets are already sold out) with only a few Friday & Sunday day tickets still available.

With over 140 bands playing across 5 stages there is always going to be something for everyone, the only downside to this is the bands you miss, but it's a festival so you have to make your choice and stick with it.

Last year festival promoter Andy Copping promised something special for Download's 10th anniversary and boy has he delivered, the headliners ooze quality this year there is something for the young (The Prodigy), something for the old (Metallica) and something for the very old (Black Sabbath), add to the mix Slash, Devin Townsend, You Me At Six, The Mission, Rise Against and Periphery as the 3 main stage headliners you get to see the issue some people will have trying to choose who to watch and who to miss.

The Prodigy headline the main stage on Friday, a just reward for their previous 2 apperanaces at Download, expect a high octane performance from Essex's finest. 

Metallica are set to perform their biggest record of all time in its entirety, get ready to hear "The Black Album" in all its glory, the band are revisiting the nineties by bringing back their legendary "Snakepit" for those lucky fan club members who have a wrist band.

Black Sabbath return to play the hallowed turf of Donington 7 years after their last performance and what will be only their second show this year. If you are going to watch a band this year at Download make it Black Sabbath, after all these are the guys who started the genre Download is built around. A lot has been said about the original line up and the omission of Bill Ward, but for those of us lucky enough to witness the gig in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago we can assure you it's going to be one hell finale.

But its not all about the headliners, Lawnmower Deth, Skindred, The Quireboys, Europe, Heavens Basement, Megadeth, Trivium, Steel Panther, Saxon, The Union, Refused, Black spiders, Ghost, Soundgarden, Anthrax..... The list goes on and on. 

See you in the "snake" pit....if you're lucky enough

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