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
2015 Artist Lineup
Godsmack
Lamb of God
- Ace Frehley
- Ahab
- Airbourne
- Alestorm
- Alice Cooper
- Anthrax
- Arch Enemy
- Arkona
- Armored Saint
- Asg
- At The Gates
- Beastmilk
- Billy Idol
- Biohazard
- Birds In Row
- Bloodbath
- Body Count
- Bölzer
- Breakdust
- Broken Teeth
- Cannibal Corpse
- Carach Angren
- Children Of Bodom
- Cock And Ball Torture
- Code Orange
- Coffins
- Cradle Of Filth
- Craft
- Dark Tranquillity
- Dead Kennedys
- Deep In Hate
- Defeater
- Der Weg Einer Freiheit
- Despise You
- Desultory
- DRI
- Dying Fetus
- Elder
- Ensiferum
- Enthroned
- Envy
- Eths
- Exodus
- Eyehategod
- Faith No More
- Fallujah
- Finntroll
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Glowsun
- Godsmack
- High On Fire
- Hirax
- Hollywood Undead
- Hypno5e
- In Extremo
- In Flames
- Iron Reagan
- Judas Priest
- Khold
- Killing Joke
- Korn
- Lamb of God
- Les Ramoneurs De Menhir
- Les Wampas
- Life Of Agony
- Limp Bizkit
- Machete
- Madball
- Marilyn Manson
- Mayhem
- Merauder
- Meshuggah
- Midnight Ghost Train
- Morgoth
- Motörhead
- Mütiilation
- Ne Obliviscaris
- Necrowretch
- Nidingr
- Nightwish
- No Return
- NOFX
- Nuclear Assault
- Obituary
- Off!
- Orange Goblin
- Orchid
- Prostitute Disfigurement
- Providence
- Red Fang
- Rise Against
- Rise Of The Northstar
- Russian Circles
- Saint Vitus
- Samael
- Samsara Blues Experiment
- Satyricon
- Scorpions
- Shape Of Despair
- Skinless
- Skyforger
- Slash
- Slipknot
- Sticky Boys
- Terra Tenebrosa
- Terror
- The Answer
- The Atlas Moth
- The Crown
- The Exploited
- The Great Old Ones
- The Haunted
- The Quireboys
- The Wounded Kings
- Trap Them
- Tribulation
- Triptykon
- Truckfighters
- Twitching Tongues
- Vallenfyre
- Venom
- Vitamin X
- Vorkreist
- Weedeater
- Witchthroat Serpent
- Wolf Brigade
- Wovenhand
- ZZ Top
