The 2020 installment of Download Festival was already loaded with acts such as System of a Down, Killswitch Engage, and Babymetal. Today, the organizers shook things up by adding over 40 more acts.

One noticeable act is Funeral For A Friend, who reunited for benefit shows last summer. The band will be headlining the The Avalanche Stage, which also features newly announced band Bowling For Soup. The Main Stage will be rocked by newly added groups Alter Bridge, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, and Wage War. For the Second Stage, The Distillers, Mastodon, and The Darkness will make their presence felt. The Dogtooth Stage will be electrified by performances from Sepultura, Higher Power, and Haken.

You can check the updated festival lineup below. Download Festival takes place at England’s Donington Park from June 12 through June 14. Tickets are on sale right now.

In support of his recent album Empath, Devin Townsend will embark on a headlining tour through North America early next year.

Announced on Tuesday, the trek kicks off on February 27 inside Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre, and it will have its last stop inside San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on March 25. Musicians joining his live band will be revealed in the future.

Joining Townsend on this tour as support are Haken, who are plugging their latest album Vector, and The Contortionist, who released their new Our Bones EP back in August.

Tickets will go on sale tomorrow (October 25) at 10 a.m. local time. Devin Townsend will end 2019 with a trek across Europe with Haken.

Empath is the proper follow up to Townsend’s 2014 solo album Dark Matters.

Devin Townsend tour dates

November 15 - Paris, FRA – Salle Pleyel

November 16 - Antwerp, BEL – Trix

November 17 - Tilburg, NET – 013

November 18 - Hamburg, GER – Gruenspan

November 20 - Turku, FIN – Logomo

November 21 - Helsinki, FIN – Cirkus

November 23 - Stockholm, SWE – Munchenbryggeriet

November 24 - Oslo, NOR – Sentrum Scene

November 25 - Copenhagen, DEN – Amager Bio