With Christmas only weeks away, we have the perfect stocking fillers for you and all your heavy music loving mates… write those letters to Santa and request your tickets to the official Download sideshows!
My Chemical Romance, Deftones, The HU, Baroness and In Flames are all serving up extra shows for New Zealand as well as playing Download festival in Melbourne and Sydney!
Download Festival Australia 2020 & Live Nation Presents
New Zealand Sideshows
IN FLAMES
Sunday 15th March | Powerstation | Auckland
TICKETS ON SALE 12PM (LOCAL) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6TH
My Live Nation pre-sale begins 12pm Wednesday, December 4th until 11am Friday, December 6th
THE HU
Monday 23rd March | Powerstation | Auckland
TICKETS ON SALE 1PM (LOCAL) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6TH
My Live Nation pre-sale begins 1pm Wednesday, December 4th until 12pm Friday, December 6th
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
+ Jimmy Eat World, Midnight Youth & Miss June
Wednesday 25th March | Western Springs Outter Fields | Auckland
Tickets on sale NOW
BARONESS
Thursday 26th March | The Tuning Fork | Auckland
TICKETS ON SALE 12PM (LOCAL) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6TH
My Live Nation pre-sale begins 12pm Wednesday, December 4th until 11am Friday, December 6th
Also performing in NZ from Download Festival but not a Live Nation event:
The Rock, Fuzen & Storm The Gates present
DEFTONES
+ special guests
Sunday 15th March | Trusts Arena | Auckland
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
About the acts:
Deftones
The multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning Deftones have sold more than 10 million records worldwide since they formed in Sacramento in 1988. Made up of Chino Moreno [vocals, guitar], Stephen Carpenter [guitar], Frank Delgado [keys, samples], Abe Cunningham [drums], and Sergio Vega [bass], Deftones distill movements of cinematic rock, psychedelia, and shoegaze into an inimitable sound independent of boundaries. Skating past genre lines, they remain cited as one of rock’s most influential and impactful acts. Deftones’ career spans three platinum albums – ADRENALINE [1995], AROUND THE FUR [1997], and WHITE PONY [2000] – as well as a 2001 Grammy Award, a gold album DEFTONES [2003], and countless critical plaudits. Following the success of DIAMOND EYES [2010] and KOI NO YOKAN [2012], GORE bowed at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 in 2016, moving over 71,000 units first-week and marking their highest chart position in 13 years. Not to mention, they curated, launched, presented, and headlined their own festival, Dia De Los Deftones, in 2018. Selling out both installments to date, the eclectic line-ups hosted everyone from Future and CHVRCHES to Gojira and Megan Thee Stallion.
In Flames
In Flames have never stopped moving forward during the more than 20 years they’ve been performing. The melodic death metal of the band’s early days has since evolved into a unique expression, manifested in 13 albums like ‘A Sense of Purpose’, ‘Sounds of a Playground Fading’, ‘Siren Charms’ and their latest release, ‘I, The Mask’ recorded in Los Angeles with multi Grammy-nominated producer, Howard Benson. 2019’s ‘I, The Mask’ charted #1 in Sweden and Austria, #2 in Germany and #1 in US Top Rock and Metal Albums. In Flames are a band that fans around the world can rely on.
THE HU
The HU is a band from Mongolia that blend hard rock and traditional Mongolian throat singing. Their first two videos Yuve Yuve Yu and Wolf Totem immediately went viral garnering the band over 30 million views. The explosive reaction to The HU resulted in enthusiastic coverage from media all over the world. Together they create rock music with traditional Mongolian instrumentation such as the Morin Khuur (horsehead fiddle), Tovshuur (Mongolian guitar), Tumur Khuur (jaw harp), guttural throat singing built around the pillars of heavy rock: distorted guitars, bombastic drums, and aggressive rhythms.
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
Formed in Newark, NJ, My Chemical Romance made its debut in 2002 with the independently released album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. The band signed to Reprise Records the following year and made its major label debut with 2004’s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, now 3x certified Platinum. The album contained the Platinum hit “I’m Not Okay (I Promise),” the Gold-certified “Helena,” and “The Ghost of You.” Rolling Stone hailed the 3x Platinum The Black Parade as one of the top albums of 2006. Lead single “Welcome to the Black Parade” topped both Billboard’s Alternative Songs tally and the UK Official Singles chart and is now 3x Platinum. The band toured extensively behind the album – appearing as characters from The Black Parade – and released the live album The Black Parade is Dead! in 2008. Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys was released in 2010 and topped Billboard’s Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts. It was followed by a series of singles later released as Conventional Weapons in 2013.
BARONESS
Grammy-nominated exploratory rock band Baroness will perform one show at the Tuning Fork in Auckland on Thursday, March 26, spilling triumphantly past genre barriers, their anthemic alt-metal hooks ricocheting between the circuitous twists of prog and jazz, the moody swirls of space-rock and noise, and the hypnotic pulses of trip-hop and 20th Century minimalism.
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