Download Kicks of on 12th

The 2009 Download begins on June 12–14 at Donington Park. Headlined bands are confirmed Faith No More, Slipknot and Def Leppard. Other notable performers include Limp Bizkit, who are playing with their original line-up for the first time since 2001, Trivium returning for their third appearance and first head lining spot, and Anvil, the band featured in the 2008 film Anvil! The Story of Anvil. A fourth stage, the "Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage", will also be appearing at this year's festival. This stage will be touring other UK festivals, such as T in the Park in Balado, Scotland, and the Underage Festival in Victoria Park, London. On the Thursday before the festival, much like Download 2007, Silent Descent will be playing a set in the camp site area in the bell tent.

On 19 May, it was revealed in an interview with Andy Copping on Music Channel Scuzz that there will be secret sets from 2 as of yet unknown bands.

Bands on Main stage:

Faith No More

Korn

Limp Bizkit

Killswitch Engage

Billy Talent

Staind

The Blackout

Hollywood Undead

Slipknot

Marilyn Manson

Pendulum

Dragonforce

Down

Hatebreed

DevilDriver

Five Finger Death Punch

Ripper Owens

Def Leppard

Whitesnake

ZZ Top

Dream Theater

Journey

Black Stone Cherry

Skin

Tesla

Stone Gods

2nd stage monsters:

Mötley Crüe, Opeth , Lacuna Coil, Bring Me the Horizon, Dir en grey, Parkway Drive

A Day to Remember, In This Moment, Steadlür, The Prodigy, Chris Cornell, You Me At Six

The Answer, Static-X, Fightstar, In Case of Fire, Hardcore Superstar

Symphony Cult

The Crave

Trivium

Papa Roach , Buckcherry, Clutch, Shinedown, Volbeat, Karma to Burn , Sevendust , God Forbid,

Suicide Silence , Trigger the Bloodshed, Sacred Mother Tongue

Tuborg Stage

Meshuggah , Duff McKagan's Loaded, Backyard Babies, Voivod, Middle Class Rut , Lauren Harris , Sylosis , Bleed from Within , Hunting the Minotaur

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage:

Blackhole, New Device, DissolvedIn, Linchpin, Don Broco, The Outcry Collective, White Man Kamikaze, Young Guns, Tripswitch, The Instigators, The Ghost of a Thousand

This City, People In Planes, My Passion, The Auteur, None The Less, 13 Riots, Forever Never

Serpico, The Computers, Japanese Voyeurs, Auger Bane, We Are the Ocean, Flood of Red

Exit Avenue, First Strike, Twin Atlantic, Attack! Attack!, Logan, Fei Comodo, Jett Black,

Million $ Reload, Raucous Jays, Fall from Grace