Download Festival unveils 2025 District X line-up: Vengaboys, Funeral For A Friend, & more

Download Festival has unveiled its 2025 District X lineup, featuring Vengaboys, Funeral For A Friend, and Choir Noir, among others. District X was announced by the festival, which will be held from June 13, 2025, to June 15, 2025, at Donnington Park in England, UK, on March 26, 2025, with a later post amplifying the District X shows on March 27, 2025:

The District X lineup is listed below:

• Vengaboys
• Funeral For A Friend
• Dougie Poynter
• Justin Hawking Rides Again
• Modestep DJ Set
• Aled Phillips Kids in Glass Houses DJ Set
• Lucha Britannia and Slay Duggee present ‘Destruction in The Doghouse’
• The End of The World Party
• Liam Corner (Cancer Bats)
• Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth DJ Set)
• Now That’s What I Call A 00S Mixtape presented by Sophie K
• Zoe London
• Bongo’s Bingo
• Dave Hill
• Hang The DJs
• 90s and 00s Raveyard
• Alex Barker
• Alternative Anthems
• Attitude Era
• Battlesnake
• Choir Noir
• Decade
• Defender of The Riff
• Delight
• Emo Drag Karaoke
• Face Down Presents Emo Prom
• Famous First Words
• Feelin’ This
• Gatekeeper
• Heavy Metal Sports
• K1
• Jon Mahon
• Master of Pop Hits
• Metal Night
• Nu-Castle
• Old Time Sailors
• On Wednesdays We Wear Black
• Panic! At The Bingo
• Rock Kids
• Rockstar
• Salty Sweat Sugar
• The Scratch
• She They Press Play
• Sophie
• Stokes
• Supa Dupa Fly
• Tasmin Taylor
• Thanks for The Memories
• Uprawr

There will also be quizzes which are listed below:

• Never Mind The Download Pub Quiz
• Download’s Korn Quiz with Kitty Cowell
• Download’s Green Day Quiz with Kitty Cowell
• Download’s Sleep Token Quiz with Kitty Cowell

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Download Festival 2025 main stage lineup

The lineup for Download Festival's 4 main stages—Apex Stage, Opus Stage, Avalanche Stage hosted by Kerrang! Radio and Dogtooth Stage are listed below. The full lineup for all the stages is available on the official website of the festival.

Download Festival Apex Stage lineup:

• Bleed From Within
• Bullet For My Valentine
• Boston Manor
• CKY
• Don Broco
• Green Day
• Hatebreed
• Jimmy Eat World
• Jinjer
• Korn
• Loathe
• Mesuggah
• Orbit Culture
• Palaye Royale
• Poppy
• Power Trip
• Rise Against
• Shinedown
• SIM
• Sleep Token
• Spiritbox
• Static Dress
• Weezer

Download Festival Opus Stage lineup:

• Airbourne
• Alien Ant Farm
• Awolnation
• Currents
• Dirty Honey
• Eagles of Death Metal
• Jerry Cantrell
• Kim Dracula
• Lorna Shore
• Municipal Waste
• Myles Kennedy
• Northlane
• Nothing More
• Opeth
• Polaris
• Seven Hours After Violet
• Sex Pistols (Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glenn Matlock) featuring Frank Carter
• Sophie Llyod
• Starset
• Steel Panther
• The Darkness
• The Ghost Inside
• The Scratch
• The Southern River Band
• Within Temptation

Download Festival Avalanche Stage hosted by Kerrang! Radio lineup:

• Amira Elfeky
• Arrows In Action
• Bad Nerves
• BEX
• Crossfaith
• Dayseeker
• Dead Poet Society
• Dead Pony
• Elliot Minor
• Harpy
• House of Protection
• Karen Dio
• Kids in Glass Houses
• Lolo
• Mallory Knox
• McFly
• Me First and The Gimme Gimmes
• Mothica
• Smash Into Pieces
• Spiritual Camp
• Split Into Chain
• The Meffs
• Trophy Eyes
• Turbonegro
• Twin Atlantic
• Unpeople
• Venus Grrlls

Download Festival Dogtooth Stage lineup:

• Alcest
• Anaal Nathraak
• Apocalyptica
• Archers
• Artio
• Bastardane
• Battlesnake
• Cattle Decapitation
• Cradle of Filth
• Eivor
• Faethooth
• Fit For An Autopsy
• Gore
• Graphic Nature
• Holy Wars
• Kittie
• Lastelle
• Neckbreakker
• Novelists
• Presidents
• Riding The Low
• Sikth
• Survive Said The Prophet
• Svalbard
• Sylosis
• Teen Mortgage
• The Funeral Portrait
• The Haunt
• Underside
• Unprocessed
• Vola
• Vower
• Vowws
• White Chapel
• Windhand
• Zetra

Download Festival will be held at the Donnington Park in Leicestershire, England. Alongside the festival's key edition at Donnington Park, the festival has also been held in Scotland, Germany, Japan, and France. The festival was started in 2003.