Enlarge imageBy Richard Smirke
LONDON (Billboard) - AC/DC will headline this year's edition of U.K. metal/rock festival Download, taking place June 11-13 at the Donington Park motor racing circuit.
Other performers include Them Crooked Vultures, Stone Temple Pilots, Deftones, Wolfmother, Megadeth, Bullet For My Valentine and Motorhead.
Download was launched in 2003 as a replacement for the Monsters of Rock festival, which ran at Donington until 1996.
AC/DC's appearance will mark the fourth time the veteran Anglo-Australian rock act has played the historic site, although the first time in its current Download guise.
The festival's daily capacity will be increased from last year's 85,000 sell-out to an unspecified number. Organizers said Download would be the U.K.'s second-biggest festival after Glastonbury, which will have a total capacity of 177,500 this year.
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Separately, AC/DC is releasing a greatest-hits set of sorts to tie in with the upcoming "Iron Man 2" film. The 15-track soundtrack, set for release April 19, makes up the entire musical accompaniment to the film. The debut video, "Shoot to Thrill" was shot last month in Buenos Aires during the band's Black Ice World Tour. The film debuts internationally on April 18, and in North America on May 7.
AC/DC has never released an official hits set, although the band did toss together six previously released songs for the 1986 album "Who Made Who," a soundtrack to the Stephen King movie "Maximum Overdrive."
The set list for "Iron Man 2" is: "Shoot to Thrill," "Rock 'N' Roll Damnation," "Guns for Hire," "Cold Hearted Man," "Back in Black," "Thunderstruck," "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)," "Evil Walks," "T.N.T.," "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be," "Have a Drink on Me," "The Razor's Edge," Let There Be Rock," "War Machine" and "Highway to Hell."
