Download Festival 2022 brings together a vast array of the best rock and heavy metal acts from around the world, but how do attendees work out who the essential bands to see are? With more than 100 bands playing and lots of potential for clashes and missing out on great performances, setting a plan is as important as working out what to pack.
In 2022, Download Festival can boast headline sets by Kiss, Iron Maiden, and Biffy Clyro, but they are far from the only bands on show. Across the whole spectrum of rock music, many sub-genres, and multiple disciples, fans in attendance will get a vast smorgasbord of heavy metal to choose from. Whether you like it stoner, progressive, doom, death or nu, it's all there.
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Download Festival 2022's line-up will deliver something for everyone, regardless of your generic preferences, which is always one of its chief selling points. But which bands on the line-up will offer such essential experiences that the entire weekend scheduled should be built around them? Here are the bands you can't miss from Download Festival 2022.
Though you know what you get from a Kiss live show, there are few live experiences that can rival the pageantry and spectacle involved. The New York veterans are as polished as you'd expect from touring in six different decades and they rank high in this year's feel-good factor rankings. Expect lots of bells ad whistles.
The Scottish flag bearers of rock have played every level of Download over their 27-year career and rightly sit at the top of Sunday's list on the main stage. Their live show is phenomenally polished, more energetic than their recorded work and can always be relied upon to throw in some
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