Twenty two new acts have been confirmed to appear at the 2012 Download Festival.

Festival stalwarts Saxon will make their second appearance at Download in three years, while Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor will perform a solo set.

Also set to appear are Dropkick Murphys, Fozzy and Quireboys.

The 2012 festival is headlined by The Prodigy, Metallica and the original Black Sabbath.  Little Angels have reformed for the event.

The most rcent additions to the line-up in full:

Butcher Babies
Cancer Bats
Corey Taylor
Dropkick Murphys
Fozzy
Gun
Heavens Basement
James Cleaver Quintet
Kopek
Marmozets
Quireboys
Red, White & Blues
Rise To Remain
Saxon
Sebastian Bach
Soil
Sylosis
The Defiled
The Treatment
Upon A Burning Body
We Are The Ocean
While She Sleeps

Read a review of Saxon’s ‘Call To Arms’ here.
Read a review of ‘A Bit of What You Fancy’ by The Quireboys here.