But, by the time we're throttling towards the finish line at 500mph – via the magnificent Holy Wars… The Punishment Due – that feels like a discussion for another day. Naturally, the messy removal of founding bassist Dave Ellefson in 2020 remains a talking point for many in the massive crowd. Peace Sells and Symphony Of Destruction, too, remain compositions as fine as any over which fans here have ever thrown horns and spilled beers.
Having first touched down at the UK's home of heavy metal all the way back in 1988, Dave and the boys know that classics like Hangar 18, The Conjuring and Sweating Bullets are ingrained in the fabric of the place at this point. Anyone alarmed by that fatalistic title needn't worry, though, because the LA thrash legends have long since proven that they've years worth of fuel left in the tank. Towards the end Saturday evening's Opus Stage headline set, Dave Mustaine reveals that Megadeth have a new album – their 16th – called The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead coming this September. (with an obligatory blast of Metallica's Fuel) everyone watching's been either beaten into submission or torrentially swept along. By the time they launch into gleefully gobby closer Spit. somehow even more abrasively steroidal than what we've heard before.
It's the glimpses of fresh material from upcoming full-length debut Explicit: The Mixxxtape that prove more intriguing, though, with the likes of D.R.I.L.D.O.
Time-tested bangers like Salma Hayek (dedicated, wishfully, by Milkie to her "wife"), along with their now-trademark cover of N.E.R.D.'s Lapdance duly delight the faithful. Instead, they demand every ounce of attention, cranking their thumping mash of unapologetic vulgarity, singalong sloganeering and scattergun pop-culture pulls to maximum volume. Tearing on with the chaotic obnoxiousness of campsite lunatics who've not bothered going to bed, Sam Matlock and Milkie Way don't give a shit about our bangovers. Like a spoonful of Marmite on your Sunday morning toast, chances are you'll either love or loathe main stage openers WARGASM. and Blind bring something feral out in every millennial metalhead in attendance, there's something lacking that won't be back ’til the slapmaster supreme return to the fold. But though Freak On A Leash, A.D.I.D.A.S. Shoots & Ladders rolls off Jonathan Davis' brilliant bagpipe solo into its endlessly creepy nursery-rhyme tangle. Cold erupts, somehow, as a serendipitous breeze whips across site. Start The Healing salves our weekend-long wounds. Of course, the obliterating, elasticised likes of Dead, Falling Away From Me and Got The Life absolutely smash us. Without keystone bassist Reginald 'Fieldy' Arvizu (who's still back home tackling some lingering personal problems), however, there's just a little of their normal gut-thumping heft lacking this weekend. As the Bakersfield baddies level a site-spanning crowd under Sunday's setting sun, it feels those nu-metal fanatics might well have a point.
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There are many at Download 2022 who believe that Korn are far better equipped to close the festival than actual Sunday headliners Biffy Clyro.
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