Photo Credit: Evan Forget
The Scene
The postcard-perfect French village of Clisson, known for its historic ruins and picturesque river, transforms one weekend each June into the heavy metal mecca known as Hellfest. More than 160 bands show up to perform on six stages with subgenres that include pagan metal, stoner, punk, thrash, grind, and black metal. The 150,000+ extreme music typically spend the weekend camping and exploring the wide-ranging Hellfest experience. Act quick. Hellfest sells out every year.
Festival Poster
2016 Artist Lineup
Anthrax
Bad Religion
Bring Me The Horizon
Disturbed
Halestorm
Jane's Addiction
The Offspring
Volbeat
- Abbath
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed
- Agressor
- Alea Jacta Est
- All Pigs Must Die
- Amon Amarth
- Anthrax
- Architects,Archgoat
- Arthemis
- Asphyx
- Atreyu
- Audrey Horne
- August Burns Red
- Aura Noir
- Backtrack
- Bad Religion
- Behexen
- Black Sabbath
- Blind Guardian
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Brodequin
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Bury Tomorrow
- Caliban
- Cattle Decapitation
- Converge
- Corrosive Elements
- Cowards
- Crobot
- Cruachan
- Dark Fortress
- Dark Funeral
- Deicide
- Delain
- Dirty Fonzy
- Discharge
- Disturbed
- Dopethrone
- Down
- DragonForce
- Dropkick Murphys
- Drowned
- Dust Bolt
- Earth
- Empyrium
- Enslaved
- Entombed A.D.
- Entrails
- Fallujah
- Fleshgod Apocalypse
- Foreigner
- Fu Manchu
- Ghost
- Glenn Hughes
- Goatsnake
- Gojira
- Grand Magus
- Gutterdammerung
- Halestorm
- Hangman’s Chair
- Harm’s Way
- Hatebreed
- Havok
- Heaven Shall Burn,Heidevolk
- Hegemon
- Hermano
- Inquisition
- Insomnium
- Jambinai
- Jane’s Addiction
- Joe Satriani
- Kadavar (GER)
- Kampfar
- Katatonia
- Killswitch Engage
- King Diamond
- King Dude
- Korn
- Korpiklaani
- Kvelertak
- Kylesa
- Le Bal Des Enrages
- Lecherous Gaze
- Les Sales Majestes
- Loudness
- Ludwig Von 88
- Magma
- Mantar
- Marduk
- Mass Hysteria
- Megadeth
- Melvins
- MGLA
- Monolord
- Moonreich
- Moonsorrow
- Municipal Waste
- Myrkur
- Napalm Death
- Nashville Pussy
- Nightmare
- No One Is Innocent
- Orphaned Land
- Otargos
- Overkill
- Paradise Lost
- Power Trip
- Primordial
- Rammstein
- Ratos De Porão
- Raveneye
- Refused
- Rival Sons
- Sacred Reich,Sadist
- Saviours
- Shinedown
- Sick Of It All
- Sixx AM
- Skálmöld
- Skeletal Remains
- Slayer
- Solefald
- Stille Volk
- Stonebirds
- Stoned Jesus
- Strife
- Sunn
- Taake,Terrorizer
- Tarja
- Testament
- The Amity Affliction
- The Offspring
- The Shrune
- The Skull
- The Toy Dolls
- The Vision Bleak
- Thy Art Is Murder
- Torche
- Tremonti
- Turbonegro
- Turnstile
- Twisted Sister
- UK Subs
- Undead Prophecies
- Unsane
- Vader
- Valkyrie
- Victims
- Vision Of Disorder
- Volbeat
- Walls Of Jericho
- Windhand
- Winter
- Witches
- With The Dead
- Within Temptation
- Wo Fat
