Hellfest, also called Hellfest Summer Open Air, is a rock festival focusing on heavy metal music, held annually in June in Clisson, France. Its high attendance makes it the French music festival with the largest audience. It is also one of the biggest metal festivals in Europe and the first to exist in France.
It originated from another music festival, the Fury Fest, held from 2002 to 2005, in different areas of Pays de la Loire. Hellfest took over in 2006 and over the years has seen a continuous rise in visitors, from 22,000 in the first edition, to 55,000 tickets sold per day in 2017. In 2022, the seven-day festival featured 350 bands and was attended by 60,000 people per day.
Its programming is primarily focused on hard rock and metal on the two main stages, while each of the four other festival’s stages are dedicated to a particular style like black metal, death metal, doom metal or stoner metal, making possible the presence of groups such as Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Motörhead, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, ZZ Top and KISS, as well as that of Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse or Anthrax.
BRING ME THE HORIZON
Papa Roach
Breaking Benjamin
The Plot In You
We Came As Romans
Deep Purple
Alice Cooper
The Pretty Reckless
Alestorm
Mikkey Dee with Friends “Playing Motörhead Classics”
Social Distortion
Alkaline Trio
Lagwagon
Shelter
Satanic Surfers
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
The Inspector Cluzo
Elder
Truckfighters
Björn
Neural Effect
Rivers of Nihil
Devanegic
Skaphos
Skáld
Heilung
Bornkagnar
Winterlyght
Perchta
IRON MAIDEN (Run For Your Lives Tour)
Helloween
Accept
Queensrÿche
Sortilège
Wings of Steel
Blackrain
Sabaton
Opeth
Sepultura
Bloodwood
Tesseract
Brothers of Metal
Return to Dust
Urævana
The Dillinger Escape Plan
La Dispute
Ceremony
Pogo Car Crash Control
Point Mort
The Gift
Gridiron
Wake the Dead
Mastodon
Slift
Torche
Stoned Jesus
Primitive Man
Rezn
Yarostan
Dragunov
Blood Incantation
Portrayal of Guilt
Decapitated
Sylosis
Sinsaenum
Blood Red Throne
Crypta
Esodic
Impureza
The Gathering
My Dying Bride
Carach Angren
Tréldom
Enneler
Ponte del Diavolo
Kills
Mourir
LIMP BIZKIT
A Perfect Circle
Tom Morello
Static-X
Enhancer
House of Protection
Thornhill
Slay Squad
Volbeat
Megadeth
Anthrax
Cavalera “Chaos A.D.”
Oranssi Pazuzu
Gatecreeper
Escuela Grind
Insanity Alert
Locomuerte
While She Sleeps
Lionheart
Kublai Khan TX
CBK
Madball
This Is Hell
Combust
False Reality
Cult of Luna
Amenra
The Young Gods
Isis as Astronaut
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Psychonaut
Fange
Brutus
Gold Capsule
Aeon
Septicflesh
Obscura
Severe Torture
Defeated Sanity
Cabal
Profanation
Dvkr
Behemoth
Old Man’s Child
Aura Noir
Oranssi Pazuzu
Gaerea
Hideker
Vigils
THE OFFSPRING
The Hives
Rise Against
Pennywise
The Bouncing Souls
The Bones
The Dwarves
Not Scientists
Bad Omens
Architects
Three Days Grace
Black Veil Brides
Pressive
Benevolent
Renovatio
The Funeral Portrait
Agnostic Front
Circle Jerks
7 Seconds
No Fun At All
D.R.I.
A Wilhelm Scream
20 Years of Ace
Karen Did
Down
Acid Bath
Corrosion of Conformity
Eyehategod
Silient Green
Black Tusk
Autor
Alta Rossa
Napalm Death
Forbidden
Six Feet Under
Filth
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
Bloodstain
Tempt Fate
Wolves in the Throne Room
Ulver
Austere
Silhouette
