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Word of mouth spread like wildfire, and the mob went wild. The Aussies insisted on a meter platform featuring a six-ton train, two sets of cannons and a giant bell. The spiritual home of rock! Foo Fighters , Pearl Jam and Van Halen have all verbally confirmed to headline the festival, but then subsequently have not played for numerous different reasons.

However, the festival was given the green light in May to proceed as a Government test event, following a number of smaller pilots and the Brit Awards in May. Latitude, which is also run by Festival Republic, announced on Friday it would be going ahead between July 22 and July 25 in Suffolk.

ES Money. The Escapist. You can call this one a homecoming. As one of the most important metal bands of the 90s and beyond, System Of A Down are genuine gamechangers and worthy headliners of this celebrated event. Promoting their fourth album, '10, Days', Tool displayed an effortless ability to take the main stage and own it. Returning to Download for their second headline slot and third appearance overall, Metallica celebrated the 20th anniversary of 'Master Of Puppets' by the playing the album in full.

Fortunately Lars was in good health this time around. After threatening to walk off after bottles were thrown onstage, both band and audience settled in for some hard rocking, with Axl Rose declaring, "I'm actually having quite a good time now! I couldn't have said that an hour ago! Playing an epic song set, Kiss brought their spectacular live show to this side of the Atlantic.

Though perhaps the less said about Gene Simmons' bass solo, the better. The only punk band to have headlined the Download festival, The Offspring brought the pogo the headbangers.

There's probably a song title there…. Returning for their first live shows in 11 years, Faith No More served to confirm just how much they'd been missed. Slipknot's first headline appearance at Download would also be their last UK performance with bassist Paul Gray before his death in Their performance was later released as the live DVD, ' sic nesses'.

Worthy headliners, indeed…. Headlining a day of torrential rain, classic rock overlords Aerosmith brought a touch of glamour to the otherwise sodden environs of Download.

Slotted in between the release of 's 'A Thousand Suns' and 's 'Living Things' album, Linkin Park made their third headlining appearance at Download. Fusing heavy metal with techno, The Prodigy lit up the Download festival after a wet start forced the cancellation of some acts.

For their third Download headliner, the metal titans that are Metallica elected to play the whole of their eponymous album — in reverse order. Despite being treated for cancer, Tony Iommi played as strongly as ever as Black Sabbath went through some of their biggest career highlights including 'War Pigs', 'Children Of The Grave' and 'Paranoid'.