Coheed and Cambria are currently over in Europe , performing their seminal album Good Apollo IV in full . Their set at Download consisted of material pretty much exclusively off that album , performing the likes of The Suffering , and Wake Up for the first time in many years . As always with Coheed and Cambria , the strength of Claudio Sanchez ’ s vocals really pull through on bigger stages . Also special attention needs to be taken to the completely in sync rhythm section of the band , who have found their groove together to propel Coheed and Cambria to another level of tightness .
And then there ’ s A Day To Remember . Toilets rolls , t-shirt cannons , pyro , fireworks and If It Means A Lot To You … It ’ s awesome ! Need we say more ?
The surprise set of the weekend comes in the form of The Devin Townsend Project . Having not seen the band before , it was a phenomenal treat to catch them play a hugely varied mix of tracks from their back catalogue . Frontman Devin Townsend , as always , captivates the crowd with humour , intense flamboyance and technical proficiency . The backing band looked as though they were enjoying every second of the performance , as they pulled probably the biggest crowd on the Zippo Encore stage so far .
Saturday night sees the incredible trio that are Biffy Clyro close the day by headlining Main Stage . Many people in the lead up to their set had questioned whether Biffy were the right choice for a Download headliner . Are they rock enough ? Are they Download enough ? Well , they absolutely smashed it and put on what was the most memorable set of the weekend . Topless as ever and perfect as always , they riff and growl their way through new songs such as Wolves Of Winter and Animal Style , nation favourites such as Many Of Horror and Bubbles , and even take us back to the early days with There ’ s No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake . Frontman Simon , even gives his own little rendition of Aerosmith ’ s I Don ’ t Wanna Miss A Thing , with which he jokes that ’ ll get him a bigger sing-a-long than anything Biffy would play . But he spoke to soon , as tonight , ending things on Stingin ’ Belle , the crowd scream back with nothing but pure adoration for this band . There ’ s fireworks and nothing but an incredible feeling left at Download after that set .
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