A few years after the dissolution of Soundwave Festival, here’s another event that’s worth whipping out your wallet chains for.

After endless rumours and hype, Download Festival has announced its arrival Down Under, with the debut event hitting Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on March 24, 2018. Headlining the whole event with an exclusive performance is KoRn, the band who dominated much of the nineties and noughties with chunky riffs, collaborations with Ice Cube and Nas, and that weird gibberish section of definitive single ‘Freak On A Leash.’

They’ll be joined by nu-metal colleagues Limp Bizkit, and we can only hope that Fred Durst’s red flexifit cap is still in tact. ‘Break Stuff’ live might just be the funnest and dumbest thing ever. Polarising pop-punk crew Good Charlotte will also be in attendance, as well as circle pit-inducing legends like Suicidal Tendencies (Mike Muir for President) and NOFX. Supergroup Prophets of Rage – consisting of members from Public Enemy, Cypress Hill and Rage Against The Machine – are another blockbuster addition.

“It is a great honour and very exciting that we are bringing Download Festival to Australia. Since the inception of Download UK in 2003, we have been looking for other territories to launch the festival and having successfully found a home for Download in France and Spain, we felt that the next country had to be Australia. Many rock fans from Australia have been in contact with us asking us to bring the festival to them – we have finally heard their calling and I cannot wait to put Download Australia on the map,” Download founder Andy Copping said.

See the full lineup below, with tickets on sale from 9:00am AEDT on Thursday, November 16 right here. Prepare to headbang your way down memory lane: