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
2023 Artist Lineup
Arch Enemy
Asking Alexandria
Clutch
Coheed and Cambria
Gogol Bordello
Halestorm
Hatebreed
In Flames
Incubus
Kiss
Machine Gun Kelly
Parkway Drive
Rancid
Seether
Slipknot
Testament
- ABORTED
- ACOD
- AEPHANEMER
- ALEISTER
- ALTER BRIDGE
- AMENRA
- AMON AMARTH
- ARCH ENEMY
- ARCHITECTS
- AS I LAY DYING
- ASKING ALEXANDRIA
- BEAST IN BLACK
- BEHEMOTH
- BELEDS
- BEYOND THE STYX
- BIRDS IN ROW
- BLACK FLAG
- BLACKBRAID
- BLOD
- BLOODBATH
- BLOODYWOOD
- BONGRIPPER
- BORN OF OSIRIS
- BRITISH LION
- CANDLEMASS
- CANDY
- CANE HILL
- CARPENTER BRUT
- CELESTE
- CLUTCH
- COBRA THE IMPALER
- COCHNEY REJECTS
- CODE ORANGE
- COHEED AND CAMBRIA
- CROWBAR
- DANCEWITH THE DEAD
- DARK ANGEL
- DARK FUNERAL
- DECASIA
- DEF LEPPARD
- DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
- DO OR DIE
- DOODSESHADER
- EARTHLESS
- ELECTRIC CALLBOY
- ELEGANT WEAPONS
- EMPIRE STATE BASTARD
- END
- ESCAPE THE FATE
- ETHS
- EVERGREY
- EVIL INVADERS
- EXODUS
- FAUN
- FEVER 333
- FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM
- FINNTROLL
- FISHBONE
- FLOGGING OLLY
- FLORENCE BLACK
- FULL OF HELL
- GENERATION SEX
- GOGOL BORDELLO
- GORGOROTH
- GOROD
- GREG PUCIATO
- HALANDRA
- HALESTORM
- HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY
- HARD MIND
- HATEBREED
- HELMS ALEE
- HETQUERTZEN
- HO99O9
- HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
- HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES
- HOLY MOSES
- HOMINTERN SECT
- HYPOCRISY
- I PREVAIL
- IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT
- IN FLAMES
- INCUBUS
- IRON MAIDEN
- KATATONIA
- KING BUFFALO
- KISS
- LEGION OF DOOM
- LESS THAN JAKE
- LLNN
- LOATHE
- LORD OF THE LOST
- LORNA SHORE
- LUDWIG VON 88
- MACHINE GUN KELLY
- MELVINS
- MESSUGGAH
- MINDFORCE
- MOD SUN
- MONSTER MAGNET
- MOTIONTLESS IN WHITE
- MÖTLEY CRÜE
- MUNICIPAL WASTE
- MUTOID MAN
- MY DILLIGENCE
- MYRATH
- NATURE MORTE
- NIGHTFALL
- NOSTROMO
- NOTHING MORE
- P-TROLL
- PALEFACE
- PANTERA
- PAPA ROACH
- PARADISE LOST
- PARKWAY DRIVE
- PESTIFER
- PETER PAN SPEEDROCK
- POESIE ZERO
- PORCUPINE TREE
- POWERWOLF
- PRIMITIVE MAN
- PRO-PAIN
- PUSCIFER
- RANCID
- RESOLVE
- RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR
- RIVERSIDE
- SAOR
- SCARLEAN
- SCHIZOPHRENIA
- SEETHER
- SHE PAST AWAY
- SKID ROY
- SKYND
- SLIPKNOT
- SONED JESUS
- SOUL GLD
- SPIRIT ADRIFT
- SPIRITWORLD
- STRAY FROM THE PATH
- STRIGOI
- SUFFOCATION
- SUM 41
- SVALBARD
- SVINHELS
- SYNDROME 81
- TEN56
- TENACIUS D
- TESTAMENT
- THE AMITY AFFLICTION
- THE CHATS
- THE CULT
- THE DALI THUNDERING CONCEPT
- THE DISTILLERS
- THE GHOST INSIDE
- THE HU
- THE OBSESSED
- THE OLD DEAD TREE
- THE QUIREBOYS
- THE SOFT MOON
- THUNDERMOTHER
- TODAY IS THE DAY
- TREPONEM PAL
- UNEART
- VEKTOR
- VENDED
- VENEFIXION
- VENOM INC.
- VOICE OF HELL CONTEST
- VOIVOD
- VREID
- WEEDEATER
- WHITE WARD
- WITHIN TEMPTATION
- WONVENNEST
- ZULU
