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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS: Gi Weekly | Download Festival 2017 Special | Devin Townsend, Mark Tremonti, Doug Aldrich, Satchel

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Last weekend, the biggest date in the rock and metal calendar took place as 80,000 people descended on the hallowed grounds of Donington Park, Leicestershire for the 15th annual Download Festival and Guitar Interactive Magazine was on-site to document some of the highlights of the event.

Jonathan Graham interviews some of the great guitarists appearing at download festival 2017, see links below.

Devin Townsend 1:01
Satchel 17:58
Björn Gelotte 26:07
Mark Tremonti 37:35
Tim Sult 48:21
Doug Aldrich 57:44
Roman Surman & Jack Tankersley 1:09:33
Golden Gods Round Up 1:16:34

The Metal Hammer Golden God Awards in association with Orange Amplification winners are…

Best New Band: Venom Prison
Best Underground Band: Pallbearer
Best UK Band: Architects
Breakthrough Band presented by World Of Tanks: Avatar
Best Live Band presented by Monster Energy: Mastodon
Best International Band presented by Nuclear Blast: Avenged Sevenfold
Best Independent Label: Nuclear Blast
Dimebag Darrell ‘Shredder’: Joel O’Keeffe
Best Game: ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ by Iron Maiden
Riff Lord presented by Century Media: Devin Townsend
Inspiration presented by Spinefarm Records: Exodus
Best Album: ‘Magma’ by Gojira
Icon presented by Udiscover Music: The Dillinger Escape Plan
Defender Of The Faith presented by Orange Amplification: Ben Ward & Sandie Soriano
Spirit Of Hammer: Prophets Of Rage
Golden God presented by Roadrunner Records: Black Sabbath

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30 Responses

  1. Nice interview to Tremonti!!

  2. Excellent interview of mark tremonti !
    Excellent questions asked !!

  3. awesomeness 🙏 🙏

  4. Devin is me in every situation.

  5. The person next to chris looks like "emo onision" lol

  6. Wow I feel so old I remember when I bought physical albums. Haha now I have to argue with my mother to get me a physical album. She's always pressuring me to just go download it off of iTunes.

  7. I feel like social media is either full of haters, fangirls or grandpas who are bitching around that a band changed their sound.

  8. is it just my phone or is there like no audio?

  9. Jeremy Fox says:

    Hah, Mark doesn't know the exact dates, and tickets are almost sold out already 😀 😀 😀 ✊ ✊ ✊

  10. This video deserve more views

  11. merci merci merci !!!

  12. Amazing job guys! cheers

  13. Adam Thorn says:

    Nice video you have there.

  14. Interview times below.

    Devin Townsend 1:01
    Satchel 17:58
    Björn Gelotte 26:07
    Mark Tremonti 37:35
    Tim Sult 48:21
    Doug Aldrich 57:44
    Roman Surman & Jack Tankersley 1:09:33
    Golden Gods Round Up 1:16:34

  15. It surprises me that AB still sounds great despite the sound problem! most bands would sound like diarrhea shit

  16. Zion Yang says:

    Terrible Mixing and Cameras, missed most of the solos and we can't even hear mark's guitar. So bad and they never fix it, every year the same things

  17. Alex Marx says:

    Hey tnx for this!

  18. 6stringJim says:

    Doug seems like such a cool guy no wonder he's been in so many great bands.

  19. Tinmantin says:

    Great show lads. Is there a part 2?

  20. When I die, I think I want Satchel to do my eulogy.

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