AVENGED SEVENFOLD Confirmed For U.K.'s DOWNLOAD Festival

November 29, 2010

Orange County, California's AVENGED SEVENFOLD has been confirmed for next year's edition of the Download festival, set to take place June 10-12, 2011 at Donington Park in Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Also scheduled to appear is the reunited SYSTEM OF A DOWN.

"We had such an amazing time on our recent U.K. tour we couldn't wait to come back!" AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows tells Kerrang! magazine. "It will be a weekend that will go down in the history books. We couldn't be more thrilled to be playing the festival of festivals!"

A limited number of weekend with camping tickets for Download 2011 will go on sale at 9 a.m. on Friday, December 3 at www.downloadfestival.co.uk. This "early-bird" offer ends at 5 p.m. on Monday, December 20, and will include three-day and five-day camping options. The popular Download RIP packages will also go on sale on December 3, and will include yurtels, pod pads, tipis, kip and kits, yurtys, gypsy caravans, kabin kreek, camping caravans and even a luxury bus.

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