With Download Festival 2026 already looking like one of the bills to beat next summer, we’ve gone through the first line-up announcement to outline who’ll be hitting Donington Park in June.
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One of metalcore’s (statistical) bands of the moment make their UK return, packing a short headline set that’s made up for by the stacked undercard of Crystal Lake, UnityTX and Graphic Nature.
Their status as a streaming phenomenon is one thing, but it’s not nearly enough to save thrown’s debut from the doldrums of generic, entirely unmemorable metalcore.
Another three days of prog, hardcore, metal and everything roundabout descends onto Manchester for another stacked RADAR Festival, with headline sets from TesseracT, Leprous and The Midnight, plus Ithaca, Holding Absence, Blood Command, Humanity’s Last Breath, Dirty Loops and plenty more.
What Half Me lack in innovation, they more than make up for with a metalcore throwdown that knows how to hit unmistakably hard.
In this Review Round-Up, the great new album from Devon Kay & The Solutions heads up a variety of EPs from Telltale, Crown Magnetar and thrown.