Download Festival To Announce 22 Bands Of A 'Variety Of Genres'

Download Festival will be unveiling 22 new acts - not 19 as previously claimed - this coming Monday.

In a posting on the official Download Facebook page, the rock festival promised a “variety of genres” and “something for everyone”.

The posting reads: “22 more bands. Announced midnight on Monday. The promise of a 'variety of genres' and 'something for everyone'. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty damn excited.”

Amongst those strongly rumoured to be playing are Slash, Steel Panther, Killing Joke, Mastodon and Trivium.

The new bands will join headliners AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine and Aerosmith, plus the likes of Stone Sour, Them Crooked Vultures, Deftones, Stone Temple Pilots, 30 Seconds To Mars, Stone Sour and Wolfmother.

Download Festival takes place at Donington Park over the weekend of June 11th to the 13th 2010.