It helped that as soon as they got onto the stage with opener Pitbull Terrier, they managed to be utterly compelling, as they bewitched this heavy metal crowd with their wild energy. But this Download crowd were non judgemental as they danced along to Die Antwoord’s crystal sweet, childlike vocals with electro dance beats and menacing English and Afrikaans raps. When they first attracted the world’s attention with their 2009 single Enter The Ninja, it was hard to know what to make of them. Composed of rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser, a male and female duo and their mysterious producer, God, (formerly known as DJ Hi-Tek) who wore a body morphing mask and orange jumpsuit, and who shared his riser with a twerking dancer. The hair raising chorus of Until The World Goes Cold had the crowd singing again but it was new song The Heart From Your Hate that could well be a constant staple of the bands repertoire in the future as the crowd lapped up its anthemic feel and sang along to the chorus.Īs always a highlight of the bands set was the crushing call of In Waves which the band finished their set with, sending tides of bodies rolling towards the crash barriers, proving that it had been a great start to the evening’s entertainment.įrom the sublime to the possibly ridiculous, it was the turn of the South African hip hop group, Die Antwoord to take to the stage. Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr and Like Light To Flies were greeted like the old friends that they are as the crowd vociferously sung every word. Other songs from the album followed such as the delightful Beyond Oblivion, whilst the instrumental passage of Sever The Hand had the audience whirling around in a cauldron of mosh as bassist Paolo Gregoletto and drummer Alex Bent whipped everybody into a calculated frenzy. They opened with the album title track, with its dual guitar solo as its centrepiece and the shared vocals between front man Matt Heafy and guitarist Corey Beaulieu, which complemented each other perfectly. Having released their fifth album, the Sun And The Sentence in 2017, there was bound to be a few songs from it on their set list. Up first was American heavy metal band from Orlando Florida, Trivium, a four piece band who have sold over one million records worldwide and who are no stranger to the Download stage having played there in 20, before headlining their first festival at Bloodstock in 2015. Slipknot, Die Antwoord and Trivium performing at the Download Festival Donington Park on Saturday 15th June 2019įor the second day of Download at Donington Park, the rain kept away but the mud remained, although it did not detract from the anticipation of the line up that was set to grace the main stage on Saturday.
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