The Download gods have spoken… and they’ve finally delivered the chaos everyone’s been screaming for.
Scooter - Germany’s most successful techno export and certified rave overlords - are officially joining Download Festival 2026, headlining the Avalanche Stage in what’s already shaping up to be a historic year at Donington.
The festival returns 10 – 14 June 2026 to the spiritual home of rock, and tickets are already flying: www.downloadfestival.co.uk For years, Download die-hards have been shouting “HYPER! HYPER!” into the void. This time? The void shouted back. And booked Scooter.
THE LINE-UP ALREADY LOOKS UNHINGED
Scooter join a stacked 2026 bill led by the holy trinity of Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses, and Linkin Park, plus huge names like:
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Electric Callboy
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Pendulum
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Cypress Hill
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Trivium
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Bad Omens
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The All-American Rejects
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Halestorm
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BABYMETAL
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Ice Nine Kills
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Dogstar
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Bush
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Ash
…and honestly, so many more it’s getting silly.
WHY SCOOTER AT DOWNLOAD IS A BIG DEAL
With 30 million records sold, 2.5 billion streams and over 1000 sold-out shows across the globe, Scooter aren’t nostalgia - they’re a phenomenon. From The Logical Song and How Much Is The Fish? to For Those About To Rave, their catalogue is basically engineered in a lab to cause limbs to fly.
Download 2026 will be their first ever appearance at Donington, and if the crowd response is anything like the years of requests, this might be one of the wildest Avalanche headline sets in festival history.
AND IN OTHER HUGE NEWS… PUNK HAUS ARE BACK
Yep.
We’re returning to Download Festival for 2026 - bigger, better, louder, and with a few surprises up our sleeve.
New prints. New collabs. New chaos.
If you thought last year was mad… just wait.
