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
Social Distortion
All Time Low
Lagwagon
Shelter
Satanic Surfers
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
The Inspector Cluzo
Elder
Truckfighters
Igorrr
The Halo Effect
Rivers of Nihil
Devangelic
Skaphos
Skáld
Feuerschwanz
Borknagar
Winterfylleth
Perchta
IRON MAIDEN (Run For Your Lives Tour)
Helloween
Ultra Vomit
Accept
Queensrÿche
Sortilège
Wings of Steel
BlackRain
Sabaton
Opeth
Sepultura
Bloodywood
Tesseract
Brothers of Metal
Return to Dust
Uravena
The Dillinger Escape Plan
La Dispute
Malevolence
Ceremony
Dying Wish
Point Mort
Die Spitz
Gridiron
Wake the Dead
Slift
Loathe
Torche
Stoned Jesus
Conjurer
Rezn
Yarostan
Dragunov
Blood Incantation
Periphery
Decapitated
Sylosis
Sinsaenum
Blood Red Throne
Crypta
Esodic
Impureza
The Gathering
My Dying Bride
Rotting Christ
Carach Angren
Trelldom
Einherjer
Ponte Del Diavolo
Killus
Mourir
LIMP BIZKIT
A Perfect Circle
Tom Morello
Static-X
Enhancer
House of Protection
Thornhill
Slay Squad
Volbeat
Megadeth
Anthrax
Cavalera "Chaos A.D."
Crisix
Gatecreeper
Escuela Grind
Insanity Alert
Locomuerte
Hatebreed
Lionheart
Kublai Khan TX
Cro-Mags
Trash Talk
Cancer Bats
King 810
Combust
False Reality
Mastodon
Cult of Luna
Amenra
The Young Gods
God Is An Astronaut
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Psychonaut
Fange
Bruit ≤
Cold.Capsule
Deicide
Carcass
Septicflesh
Obscura
Severe Torture
Defeated Sanity
Cabal
Profanation
Dvrk
Behemoth
Old Man's Child
Aura Noir
Oranssi Pazuzu
Gaerea
1914
Non Est Deus
Hulder
Vigljós
THE OFFSPRING
The Hives
Rise Against
Pennywise
The Ataris
The Bones
The Dwarves
Not Scientists
Bad Omens
Architects
Three Days Grace
Black Veil Brides
President
Resolve
Revnoir
The Funeral Portrait
The Adicts
Agnostic Front
Circle Jerks
Buzzcocks
Drain
End It
Maid of Ace
Karen Dió
Down
Acid Bath
Corrosion of Conformity
Eyehategod
Soilent Green
Black Tusk
Gnome
Alta Rossa
Napalm Death
Suicidal Angels
Possessed
Six Feet Under
Fulci
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
Bloodstain
Tempt Fate
Mayhem
Marduk
Wolves in the Throne Room
Scourge
Gehenna
Thy Light
Midnight Odyssey
Silhouette
