Ahhh so we had a massive annocment at
9 this morning and like shit I was awake at 8.40 somehow, I’m not a morning
person and I don’t like coffee so this was the best start that I theoretically
could have hoped for seeing as the rest of the day involved a pointless journey
to Cardiff and back. But here goes:-
Ima just make my way down the poster
so KoRn return to Download after a 1 year
break, nothing against Korn and I always plan on seeing them, but I never do,
this time however there here without the back-up of their new dub step back ups
and will have to rely on the classics I guess, I have nothing against that and
seeing them positioned belowBullet For My Valentine (personal opinions aside)
gives a fair reflection to the drawing power of possibly three of the biggest
bands of the last 20 years. Despite everything that’s happened with this band,
they are always welcomed at Download and check out their performance from 2009
for universal approval.
Enter Shikari finally the band I’ve been
waiting for to be announced for years are coming and their armed with possibly
their best album to date and two steller performances from Reading and a show
that I caught in Cardiff last year with LetLive and Your Demise. Currently
writing this I am 11 days away from actually going to my first overseas gig to
watch them team up with the Cancer Bats in Paris, ohh the joys of travel. Maybe
Shikari could have been higher up on this stage, especially taking into their
chart success and the quality of bands playing last year, I can only presume it
is because of Shikari’s lack of appearances that have led to their position,
still however, they have the possibility to be the band of the day.
Down every festival needs a southern head
nod, a time when you can just sit back with a bear in the sun (Hopefully, I
don’t want to jynx that shit) and just be tranced by excellent tunes and just
nod your head. Down bring heavy riffing and a bluesy beat something seldom gets
much mainstream approval, however this supergroup do their music like nobody
else.
Asking Alexandria, again, personal opinions aside, this
band are in the decent position on the main stage to finally make a name for
themselves. A few years ago there was a lot of buzz around this band and I
tried to check them out in ’11 but the tent was jam packed… since then however
the band seemed to have gone quiet whilst vocalist hasn’t seemed to gain much
sympathy from the metal audience. Who knows?
On to what looks like the Saturday and there’s Alice in Chains,
As far as I’m concerned this band need no justification for being on this bill
at all, the bands return has singled them out as one of the best hard
rock/metal bands of the 90’s whilst 2009 album ‘Black Gives Way to Blue’ (my album
of the year for that year) shows that Cantrell and co. reinvigorated with a new
vocalist still have what it takes.
UFO?
Yeah don’t know anything about them, sorry, but I’m sure they’ll pull a decent
crowd. Young Guns however have a lot to prove, I’m not
too sure how their last album went down, but I haven’t heard anything from the
band since the release of the single Bones, still there were some anthemic
songs on that album, and along with ‘All of Our Kings Are Dead’ they should
pull off a good show.
Onto Friday, I have no idea how I
missed Parkway Drive,
I can only assume I was tired, or taken in by another band announced, more on
that later. Great band, probably my standout band at Sonisphere 2011 and the
best band on the bill at the Bring me the Horizon shows earlier in the years,
armed with a decent bone crunching album, Parkway are on their way to owning
this festival just by showing up. Five
Finger Death Punch, what happened to these guys, again a few years
ago everyone was raving about them, and then the guitarist went missing… and
then did the rest of the band really, I know they released an album last year
that had a good single but I didn’t check it out, so maybe they can regain some
ground this time round.
Now here is the band I am now going to
see, I don’t care how many times I have to see them, or where, the Cancer Bats are coming and by the looks of thing
are taking their place on the main stage this year. I don’t know if that’s a
good thing or not, but I thought it would be a bad thing for Gallows and I was
proved wrong and the same with Suicide Silence. Eitherway, Cancer Bats Rule.
Gaslight Anthem, honestly I’m
not the biggest fan of the hard rocking band, however during the monsoon of
Download in 2011, The Gaslight Anthem we’re the first band that made me smile
the entire day, with really good tunes and a blatant want to be performing at
Download the band won me over and really put to shame many of the bigger bands
on the bill that day.
And now the bands without stages:-
Jimmy Eat World- that’s a stock that’s fallen,
last time they were at Download they were sub-headliners, I predict they’ll
still be pretty high on the second stage however and a chance to see pop-punk’s
21st century hero’s
can’t be snuffed at.
3 Doors Down- Never really got into them,
but everyone must know Kryptonite, right?
VolBeat—What a band, awesome hard rock
band who love to perform and have the tunes to back it up, an excellent
addition to any line-up.
Airbourne—or YEAHBOURNE, over the last
few times Airborne have played UK festivals they have a got themselves a
reputation as a hard rocking party band that are literally climbing the walls
on stage, so it will be interesting to see where they take it this time round
Motionless
in White—I actually quite like their gothic industrial music
but that could be because there making music I wish Manson was still capable of,
it will be interesting to catch them live.
Amon
Amarth—VIKING METAL, BRUTAL AND CATCHY! Class.
Converge—A
formidable band both live and on record, Converge bring a Grindcore/hardcore
sound made for tents at festivals for people to go ape-shit.
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