Download Festival: Is The UK’s Biggest Metal Festival Really All That Scary?

Since 2003, Donnington Park in Leicestershire has played host to the UK’s biggest gathering of rock and metal fans; the Download Festival. Ever since the dawn of the modern rock, it has been looked at as a genre for the outcasts, the freaks and the alternative. With stories of Ozzy Osbourne biting a head off a live bat on stage, Marilyn Manson proclaiming himself the ’Anti-christ Superstar’, huge mosh pits breaking out, and plenty of angry lyrical content, it’s easy to see why some would see Download Festi