Empress’s first appearance at Download Festival – and they’re barely into double figures when it comes to gigging – was a tough slot: they were up against Alice In Chains over on the Main stage. Still, our boys done good.

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Walking Papers are a band with Duff McKagan, and guys from The Missionary Position and Screaming Trees. Do you like those bands? Then you will like this band.

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We made Black Moth one of our picks from the entire Download Festival line-up in our preview podcast the other week, and they did not disappoint over on the Red Bull stage – keep your eyes on this lot.

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Owls. Riffs. Norway. KVELERTAK.

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LOOK! It’s a picture of Doris Yeh, aka Doris Thunder Tears. We know what you’re like. We know why you’re coming to look at our gallery of photos from Chthonic’s set at Download Festival 2013.

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Josh Homme spent a lot of Queens of the Stone Age’s set talking about taking LSD. Because hey, when you’re a giant ginger man who could probably crush 95% of the festival’s attendees’ heads in the crook of your arm, no-one is going to tell you otherwise.

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We love hanging out with Swedish people at festivals. They always try to pour more beer down our throats. We didn’t hang out with Katatonia this weekend, but we imagine they’d have tried to do that, which makes them okay in our book.

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Karnivool are Australian prog. That’s all we could get out of Raz when we asked him to sum them up for this intro speil. The weather at Download Festival 2013 wasn’t good enough for us for us to get a BBQ to make tired, cliched jokes about throwing shrimp on it at them.

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Look at Troy from Mastodon, pretending he can’t hear the crowd. We heard the Download Festival crowd for Mastodon from the other side of the arena. They were more than a little but rowdy.

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Lemmy is still alive. Lemmy is at Download Festival. Lemmy and Motörhead RULE ALL.

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