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Download Festival is a British rock festival, held annually at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England since 2003. It is the most popular British summer rock and heavy metal festival and has hosted some of the biggest names in rock, and metal including Saxon, Slipknot, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Kiss, Judas Priest, Status Quo, Motley Crue, Journey, ZZ Top, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Guns N' Roses. One innovation at the 2015 festival will be massive technological surveillance by police in conjunction with festival organizers Live Nation UK. RFID wristbands and facial recognition technology will be used to compare visual scans of attendees against a European criminal database.