Metallica will perform at Download Festival

Thrash metal band Metallica will perform at Download Festival, Donington Park on this year with his best-selling Black album.

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Download Festival 2012 will run from June 8-10. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday November 18.

The group said it's 10th birthday automatically entitled to celebrate a great festival as The Black Album by fans known as the Classic will perform.

Band co-founder and drummer Lars Ulrich said: "Six years is way too long to be away from the hallowed grounds of Donington Park. We are beyond psyched and feel privileged to come back once again to soak up the energy and vibe of the most legendary of festival sites."

The band's eighth visit to Donington Park will be. Monsters of Rock festival in 1985 and in 2006 played a free festival headlined.

Andy Copping, vice president of promotions at Live Nation, said: "I am absolutely bowled over that Metallica will be playing The Black Album at the 10th anniversary of Download.

"The album is up there as one of the greatest albums of all time, everyone knows the songs.

"The Download festival has come a long way since we first started in 2003 and to have Metallica back to help us celebrate this milestone is just fantastic."

The Black Album is number one in over 25 countries and more than 25 million copies sold worldwide.

It includes hits Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, Nothing Else Matters, and The Unforgiven.

Download Festiva tickets will go on sale on Friday

Download Festiva tickets will go on sale on Friday 15th July at 5pm.

The gorgeous festival which takes place at Donington Park from June 8 to June 10 next summer.

Download Festival headline Linkin Park, System Of A Down and Def Leppard this year, as well as sets from Bullet For My Valentine, Rob Zombie, Pendulum, Bring Me The Horizon and the return show from The Darkness.

Festival organizer Andy Copping also said recently that next summer's festival has booked all three headline acts, but who has refused to give any details.

Def Leppard performs 'Rocket' live at Download Festival

Def Leppard performs 'Rocket' (Extended Version) live at Download Festival (6/10/11) at Donington Park.

Download Festival held in Donington,

Download Festival held in Donington, alongside line-up performance from Linkin Park.

The gorgeous event takes place from June 11-13, also spotted on the stage to performances from Disturbed, Bullet For My Valentine, The Gaslight Anthem, Bowling For Soup and Rob Zombie.

Plain White T's, Floods, The Morning After and The Dead Lay Waiting also delighted fans.

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The Darkness at Britain's Download Festival on Friday (10Jun11)

The Darkness at Britain's Download Festival on Friday (10Jun11) kick on his return from the mission.British rockers, which earlier this year 2011, Donington Park, the annual rock event in the optimization stage set of 13 songs played.

Frontman Justin Hawkins acknowledged that the warm reception for download on performing actions that do not like where revelers often and throw bottles at the smell of "confusion" was later thanked the fans.

Midway through their set, Hawkins announced, "Tonight is already the best night of my life, thank you."

Headliners Def Leppard later commended Hawkins and his bandmates for their successful set, alongside singer Joe Elliott telling the crowd, "We want to thank The Darkness, who are back together again. Good for them."

Twisted Sister performances at Download Festival

Twisted Sister performances at Download Festival on 11th June 2011.

The even takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire United Kingdom can be video viewed below.

When asked in a recent interview with Rock Über there any plans for a new studio album release TWISTED SISTER to do, guitarist Eddie Ojeda said, "We have discussed it as a band, but right now it's not the focus of the band and definitely not something we plan on doing. But we never say never, because you never know what's gonna happen in the future. We may do a single here and there possibly; I don't really know.

"The way we see it is new material will take so long to write and record. When other bands do new material, it doesn't seem to get noticed and people still want to hear the old stuff.

"When I see bands play like [IRON] MAIDEN or [JUDAS] PRIEST, all these great bands, put out new stuff, it's all good, but when they play it live, the audience goes quiet on those songs, yet when they go back into 'British Steel' or 'Screaming For Vengeance', the audience comes back to life and, you know, we can see that and it's noted. It's one of those things, and it gets, like, what's the point in doing those things if it takes so long to do the thing then for people to catch on? Especially for bands like TWISTED, it's been so long between albums. It's one thing when you're current and people are following each album, but for some of the '80s bands, there are a lot of years between albums and coming up with a new one can be tough. . . We'll see what happens in the future, but at the moment it looks like a no for new TWISTED SISTER stuff."

TWISTED SISTER what he thinks about it is that in 2011 the band and getting a big European festival takes place on about them is good.

Eddie said, "It's just one of those things and we're glad it's still happening. It's kinda hard to explain, because you never really know why, and all of a sudden people just seemed to get it more than they ever did or they're just getting it. Whatever the reason, we're definitely grateful to get that recognition for what it is we do, but I also think that what we do is all so unique and different than what every other band does. It kinda creates that interest and people want to hear us because we are different and we're not really similar to other bands and what they do. We have something that's unique and it's still something people want to see and there are a load of people who never got the chance to see us back in the day."