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News : Download Festival Australia to be announced soon…hopefully.

By on September 26, 2017

https://downloadfestival.co.uk

Rumors are afoot with the highly anticipated announcement of Download Festival making its way to Australia at some point in the near future. According to two former promoters of the now defunct Soundwave Festival, the announcement will come sooner rather than later.

Former Soundwave alumnus, Chris O’ Brien, who is now the General Manager of touring for Destroy All Lines recently took to Twitter in response to a question about the festival and advised it will be announced “next month”.

In addition, former head honcho of the Soundwave Festival, AJ Maddah, says we should expect the announcement in “a few weeks”.

Neither promoter has commented whether they’ll be apart of the Download Festival. But rest assured we will be in good hands as Live Nation are the festival organisers who originally purchased the Australian domain name for the Download Festival last year. Live Nation has been responsible for the recent Stone Sour and Black Sabbath ‘The End’ Australian tours, among countless others.

The Download Festival began at Donnington Park in the UK in 2003, and has since become one of the biggest annual music festivals on the planet. In 2016, the French edition of Download was created with similar line-ups to the UK edition, but not identical. Most recently the festival organisers created Download Madrid which will make its debut in 2018.

This year’s line-up of Download Festival in the UK featured the likes of Aerosmith, System of a Down, Sabaton, Opeth, Slayer Airbourne and heaps more. Click here to check out the full line-up for Download Festival 2017.

Stay tuned to Metal Obsession for further updates.

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