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
2014 Artist Lineup
Clutch
Hatebreed
Rob Zombie
Seether
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- Acid King
- Aerosmith
- Alter Bridge
- Angelus Apatrida
- Angra
- Annihilator
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Ays
- Behemoth
- Benighted
- Bl’ast!,
- Black Sabbath
- Blockheads
- Blue Pills
- Brutality Will Prevail
- Buckcherry
- Burning Heads
- Carcass
- Caspian
- Clutch
- Conan
- Crossfaith
- Crowbar
- Crushing Caspars
- Dagoba
- Darkness Dynamite
- Death
- Death Angel
- Deep Purple
- Defeater
- Destroyer 666
- Dordeduh
- Downfall Of Gaiia
- Downset.
- Dozer
- Electric Wizard
- Eluveitie
- Emperor
- Enslaved
- Equilibrium
- First Blood
- Floggin Molly
- Fueled by Fire
- Gehenna
- Godflesh
- Gorgoroth
- Gorguts
- Hail Of Bullets
- Hark
- Hatebreed
- Herder
- House Of Broken Promises
- Iced Earth
- Impaled Nazarene
- In Solitude
- Incantation
- Iron Maiden
- Kadavar
- Kataklysm
- Killers
- Kylesa
- Last Resort
- Lez Zeppelin
- Lofofora
- Loudblast
- Lowrider
- Mad Sin
- Mars Red Sky
- Megadeth
- MGLA
- Millencollin
- Misconduct
- Misfits
- MOD
- Monster Magnet
- Nightmare
- Nile
- Nocturnus AD
- Obliteration
- Of Mice and Men
- Paradise Lost
- Powerwolf
- Pro-Pain
- Pungent Stench
- Queensryche
- Repulsion
- Rob Zombie
- Royal Thunder
- Satan
- Satan’s Satyrs
- Saviours
- Scorpion Child
- Seether
- Sepultura
- Shining
- Skid Row
- Slapshot
- Slayer
- Sognametal
- Soilwork
- Solstafir
- Soulfly
- Soundgarden
- Spirit Caravan
- Status Quo
- Stick Your Guns
- Subrosa
- Supuration
- Tagada Jones
- Temple of Baal
- The Black Dalhia Murder
- The Bones
- The Ruins Of Beverast
- Therapy!
- Toxic Holocaust
- Trivium
- Trollfest
- Tsjuder
- Turbonegro
- Turisas
- Ulcerate
- Unida
- Unleashed
- Urfaust
- Vreid
- Walking Papers
- Walls Of Jericho
- Watain
- Watertank
- We Came As Romans
- Weekend Nacho’s
- While She Sleeps
- Witch Mountain
- Year Of The Goat
- Zodiac
