It's that excruciating time of year again where we must all make some tough decisions, because set times for Download Festival 2020 are officially here!

Get excited Maniacs - the lineup for Download Festival Australia is here! Following the success of its 2018 debut in Melbourne, Download Festival Australia will make its return in 2019 with an additional date in Sydney.

After a hugely successful campaign this past March, Australia's shiny new heavy music festival DOWNLOAD will once again return in 2019 for its sophomore year.

In its much anticipated debut, organisers slung together a bevvy of fantastic international and local acts such as KORN, LIMP BIZKIT and NORTHLANE and now, they're back for round two! 

Trivium’s Paolo Gregoletto took a few minutes to hang out withRoadrunner Recordsbackstage at Download Festival! He talked about how the band go about preparing for festivals, what makes Download so special and who his favourite festival bands are!

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Trivium’s Corey Beaulieu spoke toGetYourRockOutbefore the band’s set atDownload Festivalrecently and revealed that the band are planning on having a new album ready for release next year!

Corey also spoke about how their new drummer is fitting in with the band and whether he’ll become a permanent fixture.

Watch this space!

Philip Anselmo was recently at Download festival withDown and he caught up withRoadrunner Records UK! He shared his opinion on why heavy music attracts so many people, talked about how the songs from the latest Down EP are going live and revealed who he considers to be a legendary festival band!

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It’s coming up to 10 years sinceTrivium releasedAscendancy andCorey Beaulieurecently spoke to theMike James Rock Show about how the band are planning to mark the occasion! They also talked about what it was like to be on tour withKillswitch Engage and hint that there could be a live DVD in the works!

Joel StroetzelofKillswitch Engage recently caught up with theMike James Rock Show backstage atDownload festival, which was definitely the place to be! Joel talked about which tracks fromDisarm The Descent go down well live and how the band is progressing on writing a new album!

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