Download Is More Than Just A Festival, It Changed My Life

NEWS 2020/06/09

Fourteen years ago this month, I went to my first Download Festival, and it affected me in ways I couldn’t have imagined. Growing up in the Midlands with little money and no access to seeing ‘big bands’ without travelling an hour or more to Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield etc, the idea of Download was like a dream. A hundred bands, none of which I’d seen before, all in one place with my mates. Yes please. While Reading & Leeds is seen as the go-to festival for those who’ve just finished their A-Levels, Download is the real ‘rite of passage’ festival for those who like it heavy (sorry Franz Ferdinand, but like hell was I missing Metallica). But we hadn’t even finished our A-Levels, we were 16 and still studying, and as you’d expect from a four teenage boys left unsupervised for s...

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2010 release, the fifth album from the Alt-Metal outfit, produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem) and mixed by noted engineer Andy Wallace. The album is the first from the band without drummer James the Rev Sullivan, who passed away in December. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy plays drums on the album. Over the years, Avenged Sevenfold has built a fanatical fan base that includes more than one million fans on Facebook. They have also attracted 93 million plays on MySpace.

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