Download Fest Adds Korn, Limp Bizkit, Asking Alexandria, Parkway Drive, Converge, Motionless in White

by Ryan Minic | Jan 16, 2013

A number of new acts have been confirmed for UK’s Download Festival 2013, taking place on June 14-16 in Leicestershire at Donington Park.

Newly confirmed bands include: Limp Bizkit, Korn (with Brian “Head” Welch), Coal Chamber, Asking Alexandria, Parkway Drive, Down, Enter Shikari, Cancer Bats, Motionless in White, Converge, The Sword, among others.

They’ll join Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Motörhead, HIM, Alice in Chains, and A Day To Remember.

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