Hellfest Summer Open Air Festival

News - 3rd February - THE FINAL HELLFEST LINE UUP ANNOUNCEMENT IS HERE!
The D day has come, all the soldiers are now gathered for the final assault that will at last able us to conquer the new territory in which Hellfest will take place for several years to come. Victory is a foregone conclusion with over 60 new bands backing us up, who should quickly be joined by legions of troopers from the Metal Nation!

The last bands are:
GUNS N' ROSES, MEGADETH, MOTLEY CRUE, REFUSED, DROPKICK MURPHYS, BIOHAZARD, TURBONEGRO, WITHIN TEMPTATION, ABYSSE, ALL SHALL PERISH, ARSON ANTHEM, ASCENSION, BEHEMOTH, BELENOS, BENIGHTED, BIG BUSINESS, BLACK BOMB A, BUKOWSKI, CANCER BATS, CELESTE, D-A-D, DISCHARGE, DOOMRIDERS, EDGUY, ENTOMBED, GOTTHARD, HANK III, HAMLET, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, IHSAHN, INSOMNIUM, JESUS CROST, KORITNI, LASTING VALUES, LITURGY, LOCK UP, MOONSORROW, NECROPHAGIA, OBITUARY, OCTOBER FILE, SATYRICON, SEBASTIAN BACH, SHINING, SUBLIME CADAVERIC DECOMPOSITION, SUFFOCATION, SUNNO))), THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX, THE BRONX, THE OBSESSED, THE RODEO IDOT ENGINE, TRAGEDY, TREPALIUM, UNEARTH, UNSANE, URIAH HEEP, VITAMIN X
+ 10 other bands yet to come!

Unfortunately ALL PIG MUST DIE & WHITECHAPEL has canceled their performances.

News - 24th January - KING DIAMOND RETURNS!
Playing only 2 European festival in 2012, ex-Mercyful Fate vocalist has been confirmed for Hellfest.  One of the most iconic heavy metal-musicians in Scandinavian history is Danish vocalist King Diamond. He made it big in the early 80s with the now legendary Mercyful Fate, and moved on in 1985 to his own namesake constellation.

News - 28th November - 49 MORE BANDS ANNOUNCED FOR HELLFEST LINE UP FOR 2012!
No less than 49 new acts have been announced for the rock and metal festival, which will take place in Clisson, France on 15th - 17th June next year.

Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Girlschool, Exodus, Dog Eat Dog, Madball, Pentagram, Enslaved, Brujeria and Devil Driver are all newly confirmed to play. Acid King, All Pigs Must Die, Alpha Tiger, August Burns Red, Betraying The Martyrs, Blood Red Throne, Brain Police, Brutal Truth, Channel Zero, Darkest Hour, Death Angel and Djerv will also be at the festival next year.

Do Or Die will play, along with Dying Fetus, Emmure, Emmure, L Espirit Du Clan, Extinction Of A Mankind, Gamabomb, Glorior Belli, H2O, Hoods, Integrity and Lizzy Borden. Merrimack, Molly Hatchet, Nasum, Origin, Saint Vitus, Suicidal Angels, Taake, Vomitory, Walls Of Jericho, Whitechapel, Year Of No Light and Yob complete the list of new announcements.

Three-day passes are available now, priced at 124EUR.

News - 21st November - BLACK SABBATH JOIN HELLFEST LINE UP FOR 2012!
Reformed and already playing a number of gigs next year, BLACK SABBATH have been confirmed as headliners for next year's Hellfest!

News - 13th October - FIRST BAND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CONFIRMED DATES FOR 2012!
Hellfest will be taking place from the 15th to 17th June 2012 at Clisson and organisers have announced the first batch of bands for next year’s festival:

Blue Oyster Cult, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Trivium, Hatebreed, Dimmu Borgir, Aborted, Alcest, All For Nothing, Amenra, Anaal Nathrakh, Aosoth, Arcturus, ASG, Avulsed, Benediction,Colour Haze, Crashdiet, Darkspace, Death Before Dishonor, The Devil’s Blood, D.usk, Dyse, From Ashes Rise, Haemorrhage, House of Penance, In Extremo, Monkey 3, Napalm Death, Necros Christos, Orange Goblin, Oranssi Pazuzu, Rompeprop, Solstafir, Spudmonsters, Strife, Thou, Ufomammut, Unexpect, Vanderbuyst, Victims, Vulture Industries, Winterfylleth.

HELLFEST 2012 LINE UP

Friday 15th June
MAIN STAGE
Megadeth, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gotthard, Molly Hatchet, Lizzy Borden, Bukowski, Alpha Tiger + 1 more

MAIN STAGE 02
King Diamond, Dropkick Murphys, Turbonegro, Heaven Shall Burn, The Bronx, Black Bomb A, Hamlet, Betraying The Martyrs + 1 more

THE ALTAR
Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Brujeria, Nasum, Vomitory, Unexpect, Benediction, Benighted, Trepalium

THE TEMPLE
Amon Amarth, Satyricon, Moonsorrow, Shining, Darkspace, Endstille, Sólstafir, Belenos, Merrimack

THE WARZONE
Tradegy, From Ashes Rise, Arson Anthem, The Spudmonsters, Discharge, Victims, Vitamin X, Extinction Of Mankind + 1 more

THE VALLEY
Hank III, Colour Haze, Orange Goblin, The Atomic Bitchwax, Brain Police, Thou, Doomriders, Celeste + 1 more

Saturday 16th June
MAIN STAGE
Guns n' Roses, Within Temptation, Edguy, Sebastian Bach, Koritni +3 more

MAIN STAGE 02
Machine Head, Exodus, Sacred Reich, Channel Zero, Death Angel, Gama Bomb, Suicidal Angels +1 more

THE ALTAR
Entombed, Napalm Death, Aborted, Origin, Necrophagia, Avulsed, Haemorrhage, Rompeprop, Jesus Cröst

THE TEMPLE
Behemoth, In Extremo, Enslaved, Taake, Djerv, Ascension, Necros Christos, Oranssi Pazuzu, Glorior Belli

THE WARZONE
Refused, Darkest Hour, Unearth, Dog Eat Dog, Cancer Bats, October File, Emmure, The Rodeo Idiot Engine + 1 more

THE VALLEY
Saint Vitus, The Devil's Blood, Yob, Unsane, Big Business, Ufomammut, Amenra, Asg, Dÿse

Sunday 17th June
MAIN STAGE
Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, D-A-D, Girlschool, Crashdïet, Anderbuyst

MAIN STAGE 02
Lamb of God, Trivium, Hatebreed, Devildriver, Walls Of Jericho, August Burns Red, All Shall Perish, Do Or Die, L'esprit Du Clan

THE ALTAR
Children of Bodem, Suffocation, Lock Up, Brutal Truth, Insomnium, Dying Fetus, Blood Red Throne, Hour Of Penance, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition

THE TEMPLE
Dimmu Borgir, Arcturus, Ihsahn, Vulture Industries, Anaal Nathrakh, Liturgy, Winterfylleth, Aosoth

THE WARZONE
Biohazard, Madball, Strife, Integrity, H2o, Death Before Dishonor, Hoods, All For Nothing, Lasting Values

THE VALLEY
Sunno))), The Obsessed, Pentagram, D.Usk, Acid King, Monkey 3, Alcest, Year Of No Light, Abysse

HISTORY

Although on a smaller scale, Hellfest is France's distinguished answer to Wacken, Download and the other major European metal festivals.

Spawned from the remains of the financially troubled FuryFest and a passion to keep metal firmly on the French musical map, the festival has guaranteed an illustrious metal gathering since 2006.

Hellfest - Line Up 2011
Angel Witch, Bad Brains, Belphegor, Church Of Misery, Converge, Coroner, odheimsgard, Doro, The Exploited, Grave, The Haunted, In Solitude, Karma To Burn, Malevolent Creation, Mayhem, The Melvins, Morne, My Sleeping Karma, Nasty, Orphaned Land, Raw Power, Septicflesh, Shai Hulud, Sodom, Therion, Triptykon, Valient Thorr, The Young Gods, Your Demise, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Opeth, Black Label Society, Therion, Coroner, Kreator, Sodom, Mayhem, Bolt Thrower, 1349, Ancestors, Arkona, Arma Gathas, Athiest, Audrey Horne, Black Dahlia Murder, Comeback Kid, Dagoba, Electric Wizard, Exhumed, Eyehategod, Firewind, Ken Mode, Hawkwind, Korpiklaani, Krisiun, Kylesa, Masters Of Reality, Mekong Delta, Pain of Salvation, Red Fang, Skeletonwitch, Skyforger, Unleashed, Vader, Judas Priest, Back to Basics, In Flames, Down, Dark Tranquility, Duff Mackagan's Loaded, Static-X, Thin Lizzy, Iggy And The Stooges, Rob Zombie, Apocalyptica, Cavalera Conspiracy, The Answer, Alter Bridge, Kyuss Lives!, Monster Magnet, The Cult, Mr Big, Ufo, Cradle Of Filth, Morbid Angel, Meshuggah, Clutch, Corrosion Of Conformity, Goatsnake, Ghost, Destruction, Municipal Waste, Whiplash, Maximum The Hormone, Hammerfall, Crucified Barbara, Black Rain, Suicide Silence, Hail Of Bullets, Gorguts, Morgoth, Tsjuder, Turisas, Grand Magus, Anal Cunt, Total Fucking Destruction, Terror, D.R.I., Us Bombs, The Dwarves, Architects, Times Of Grace, Knut, Kruger, Deez Nuts, Lyzanxia, Sup, Klone, Svart Crown, Impureza, Hangmans Chair, Zuul FX

Hellfest - Line Up 2010
Fear Factory, Sepultura, Infectious Grooves, Deftones, KMFDM, Mass Hysteria, Evile, Tamtrum, Biohazard, Arch Enemy, Sick of it All, Hypocrisy, Finntroll, Walls of Jericho, Crowbar, Swallow the Sun, Gorod, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, Slash, Airbourne, Y&T, Delain, Electric Mary, Carcass, Immortal, Annihilator, Nevermore, Anvil, Raven, Tankard, Born From Pain, Dew Scented, Kiss, Motorhead, Stonesour, Saxon, UDO, Primal Fear, Freak Kitchen, Vulcan, Slayer, Exodus, Devin Townsend Project, Behemoth, Enisferum, Eluvitie, Sabaton, Blaspheme, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Doom, Brant Bjork and the Bros, Mondo Generator, Yawning Man, Rwake, Weedeater, Black Cobra, Saviours, 16, Solace, Omega Massif plus many many more…..

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