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Download Festival adds 12 more bands and announces stage splits

Puscifer, Cancer Bats, Static Dress, Hundred Reasons and more have been added to Download Festival…

With little over a month to go, Download Festival have announced a dozen more bands and revealed the stage splits across the weekend.

Joining the already stacked line-up, Download have unveiled the following names across the four-day weekend: Cancer Bats, Casey, Hundred Reasons, State Champs, Static Dress, Puscifer, Punk Rock Factory, Haken, Snayx, Redhook, Rituals and Cherry Bombs.

These 12 bands join a stellar bill that features headline performances from Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot and two nights of Metallica playing completely different sets.

But who else will you be able to fit in across the weekend? Here are the stage splits for this year's Download…

Thursday

Apex Stage

Metallica, Alter Bridge, Halestorm, Jinjer, Mammoth WVH

Opus Stage

Five Finger Death Punch, Puscifer, Hundred Reasons, The Bronx, Cancer Bats, Cherry Bombs

The Avalanche Stage

State Champs, Mom Jeans, Punk Rock Factory, Fearless Vampire Killers, Tigress

Dogtooth Stage

Perturbator, Haken, A.A. Williams, Caskets, Mimi Barks, Snayx

Friday

Apex Stage

Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Pendulum, Neck Deep, Hot Milk, Nova Twins, Stand Atlantic

Opus Stage

Evanescence, Within Temptation, Asking Alexandria, Epica, Elvana, Smash Into Pieces, The Warning

The Avalanche Stage

VV, PUP, The Blackout, Crawlers, Aviva, As December Falls, Redhook, Fixation

Dogtooth Stage

Carpenter Brut, GWAR, Empire State Bastard, Brutus, Ingested, Undeath, Pupil Slicer, Witch Fever, Taipei Houston

Saturday

Apex Stage

Metallica, Disturbed, Alexisonfire, Clutch, Ice Nine Kills, FEVER 333, Polaris

Opus Stage

Placebo, Simple Plan, Three Days Grace, Motionless In White, Carcass, Municipal Waste, Stray From The Path, Static Dress

The Avalanche Stage

Coheed And Cambria, Deaf Havana, Bob Vylan, nothing,nowhere., Kid Kapichi, Casey, BLACKGOLD, Rituals

Dogtooth Stage

Monuments, Greg Puciato, Spirit Adrift, Enola Gay, Bambie Thug, Beauty School Dropout, Lake Malice, Kid Bookie, Antisaint

Sunday

Apex Stage

Slipknot, Parkway Drive, I Prevail, Behemoth, The HU, Lorna Shore, Bloodywood

Opus Stage

Ghost, The Distillers, Palaye Royale, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Avatar, The Amity Affliction, SiM, Blind Channel

The Avalanche Stage

Electric Callboy, Set It Off, MOD SUN, Cleopatrick, Jazmin Bean, Joey Valence & Brae, Taylor Acorn, Crashface

Dogtooth Stage

Hatebreed, Touché Amoré, Terror, Soen, Green Lung, Soul Glo, The Meffs, HAWXX, Graphic Nature, Beauty School

Stage times are yet to be announced, but it's safe to say we're going to be doing a lot of running around all weekend!

Download Festival takes place June 8 – 11 at Donington Park, Derbyshire.