Download Festival is a British
rock festival, held annually at
Donington Park in
Leicestershire, England, since 2003. It is the most popular British summer
rock and
heavy metal festival and has hosted some of the biggest names in rock and metal including
Slipknot,
Saxon,
Black Sabbath,
Metallica,
Rammstein,
Iron Maiden,
Slayer,
Muse,
Motörhead,
Aerosmith,
Linkin Park,
AC/DC,
Def Leppard,
Kiss,
Judas Priest,
Status Quo,
Motley Crue,
Journey,
ZZ Top,
Whitesnake,
Thin Lizzy, and
Guns N' Roses. One innovation at the 2015 festival was the massive technological surveillance by police in conjunction with festival organizers
Live Nation UK.
RFID wristbands and
facial recognition technology was used to compare visual scans of attendees against a European criminal database.