20 bands announced for Download Festival 2011

Fans heading to this year’s Download Festival are patiently waiting for the announcement of twenty bands this evening but it looks like Classic Rock jumped the gun and announced all twenty before removing the news story. Sadly for Classic Rock the page went out and is available through Google search and RSS readers for all to view.

The twenty said bands to join headliners System Of A Down and Linkin Park, as well as Avenged Sevenfold and Rob Zombie are:

1. Alice Cooper
2. Alter Bridge
3. Black Veil Brides
4. Buckcherry
5. Bullet For My Valentine
6. Clutch
7. The Cult
8. The Damned Things
9. Danzig
10. Escape The Fate
11. FM
12. The Gaslight Anthem
13. GWAR
14. Hollywood Undead
15. Masters of Reality
16. Mr Big
17. Pendulum
18. Rise To Remain
19. Korn
20. Sacred Mother Tongue

The official announcement will be made later tonight but we know that the major magazines and websites already know the current line-up via a confirmation from the Kerrang editor on Twitter so this list is likely legit and you can look forward to seeing these twenty acts between 10-12^th June.