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First Bands Announced For Download Festival 2009

posted Feb 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM by Diamond Oz.  (15 Comments)

Photo of Slipknot

Band Photo: Slipknot (?)

The first batch of bands have been announced for Britain's Download Festival. Slipknot appear to be one of the three headliners and will be joined by The Prodigy, Motley Crue, Korn, Dragonforce, DevilDriver and Pendulum. According to Scorpio PR, Limp Bizkit, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, God Forbid, Lamb Of God and Marilyn Manson will also appear at the event.

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15 Comments on "First Bands Announced For Download Festival 2009"

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1. Detmetal20 writes:

Really Limp Bizkit??

# Feb 9, 2009 @ 6:44 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
Diamond Oz's avatar

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2. Diamond Oz writes:

I'm shocked. With the exception of Pendulum and Dragonforce, this isn't a bad lineup! And as I've said numerous times before, I love Limp Bizkit so I'd like to see them. Shame I got sod all cash.

# Feb 9, 2009 @ 6:46 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. BrianSD writes:

Limp Bizkit's first disc had a couple of alright songs but the last one or two were so poppish and stupid. I remember hearing those song like my way and rollin and thought to myself "what are they thinking?" they dug their own grave but i guess they're getting a 2nd chance.
seeing them playing alongside Devildriver, god forbid and lamb of god is just weird.

# Feb 9, 2009 @ 10:33 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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4. FetusGoulash writes:

i just dont understand y they gota put def lepperd and whitesnake alongside god forbid and l.o.g
thats like saying cannibal corpse featuring tori amos...... o wait they did that

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 1:58 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. FetusGoulash writes:

btw got the tour dates?

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 1:59 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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6. brandedcfh420 writes:

DL and whitesnake, holy fuk. i guess download wants garbage bands as well!!

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 11:12 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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7. Diamond Oz writes:

I saw both Def Leppard and Whitesnake at Graspop last year on the friday. Def Leppard were surprisingly good, much better live than you'd expect. The less I say about Whitesnake's performance the better.

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 11:58 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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8. brandedcfh420 writes:

right-o oz. WS was never any good, imo.

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 12:03 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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9. Lord Assenfroth writes:

God forbid and lamb of god should feel embarrased sharing a stage with limp bizkit and marylin mansonfag maybe they'll give all them nu-metal b****es a punch in the face while they represent REAL metal

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 2:04 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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10. Jackrum writes:

so korn and slipknot make their yearly brownload gig. whoop dee doo... Bloodstock need to announce their line up

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 3:35 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
Diamond Oz's avatar

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11. Diamond Oz writes:

They already have announced a bunch of bands for Bloodstock

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 3:47 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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12. Eccentricity writes:

I'm just really trying to imagine what sort of person would actually be interested in all of these bands. Could their lineup get any more eclectic?

# Feb 10, 2009 @ 5:55 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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13. AOC SHEA writes:

Lamb of God arnt playing, Randy said in an interview that there not doing it cause of them plkaying Knebworth.
GUTTED
but all others sound really good so far, Limp Bizkit will be cool inless they do songs liek behind blue eyes and sh** like that lol
Whitesnake will be aweome and Motley crue will be even better

# Feb 17, 2009 @ 9:55 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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14. Drummer Dan writes:

Hey...AOC SHEA, you got a link for the interview with Randy stating that they aint appearing at the Download Festival?

# Feb 24, 2009 @ 12:52 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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15. Dan619 writes:

this line up looks great to me, whitesnake and def leppard are both awesome live, all the band so far look great! looks like it was a line up for me! haha

# Feb 28, 2009 @ 10:51 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address

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