Devil Driver
The lovely Devil Driver played the main stage early on and were everyone you’d want from a foxy heavy metal group.
Despite being on at 12.50, when most of the festival-goers were trying to open their eyes and cope with the splitting headache brought on by the night before there was still a sea of leather clad rockers checking out the Roadrunner Recordsband from California.
Anyone who knows Devil Driver will be well aware that they are famed for their circle pits, and with it being Download Festival, and the sun shining, the band decided it was time to attempt a world record for the largest circle pit recorded at a gig (having had a previous attempt at the same record in 2007).
Although the pit was pretty spectacular to watch from the safety of the hill, we will have to wait until those boffins at Guinness World Records HQ decide whether it makes it into the book before we can start calling them record holders.
Proving that you don’t have to be arrogant to be a musician, these guys interacted with the crowd the whole way through their set, growling down the microphone as if he’d smoked 20 a day for the past 30 years. Classy.
Rocking harder than a shoddy caravan, Devil Driver’s set was one of the best early acts of the whole day in my eyes.
I caught up with the band over the course of the weekend to chat about how they were enjoying the festival and what we can expect from them in the coming months, be sure to check out our interview later this week.
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