Avenged Sevenfold confirm Download Festival

Avenged Sevenfold after the great success on their recent sold-out UK tour have confirmed their participation for Download Festival 2011.The event will going to take place at Donington Park, UK between 10-12 June.Through out the Jan and Feb'11 the band has set out for US tour.

Vocalist M. Shadows said 'After such an amazing time on our current tour in the UK we couldn't wait to come back. That's why we are excited to play the festival of all festivals! Yes, Avenged Sevenfold will be playing Download Festival and it will be a weekend that should go down in the history books! We couldn't be more thrilled'

Ticket go on sale for the Download Festival 2011

Download festival tickets are due go on sale next year for festival. The event in Dannington will be headlined by System Of A Down and linkin Park runs from 10-12 July.

Organisers said kindly this month, Rob Zombie will also perform at the festival.

Ticket had been go on sale to the weekend next year but will now be available from tomorrow due to “overwhelming public demand”.

Linkin Park to play Download 2011

The 2011 Download Festival had been confirmed to play by Linkin Park.

Linkin Park fourth album The Thousand Sun was a great hit and went to number two in the UK,they will be join System Of A Down and Grammy award-winning musician-director Rob Zombie at Donington Park in June next year.

Frontman Chester Bennington said: "We are very excited to be playing Download again next year. It's one of the best festivals in the world and it's always an honour to play in front of such a great crowd. We can't wait!"

System Of A Down return for Download festival

At the Castle Donington event on 10-12 June,the Armenian-American band will top the bill.

A headliner for Download Festival has been confirmed by Metal band System Of A Down who have just ended at a five year "hiatus".

In a statement the group said they had "no master plan" but were "playing these shows simply because we want to play together again".

Tickets go on sale on Friday 3 December.

System Of A Down - Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan - have released five studio albums to date.

Their most famous tracks included Toxicity, Chop Suey! and Sugar.

Last year's Download Festival was headlined by AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine and Aerosmith.