HELLFEST. Now it’s time for the 16th edition of the most prominent festival on the metal planet. We take stock of the groups not to be missed in the programming, the line-up and practical information.
[Mis à jour le 15 juin 2023 à 6h45] From Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 June in Clisson, hundreds of thousands of metal lovers will meet in joy and good humor on the Clisson site. On the menu of headliners, the legends of hard rock Kiss Thursday, Motley Crue Friday, Iron Maiden on Saturday, or Slipknot And Pantera on Sunday.
A poster “which respects the primary essence of the festival”, summed up Ben Barbaud, the boss of Hellfest. But also novelties with Tenacious Dan American satirical hard-rock group led by theJack Black actorthe Californian rock band Incubus (which was to pass in 2020), Electric Callboya group of German electronicore which is exploding at the moment… Discover the complete line-up for the four days below:
- Mainstage 1 : Kiss, Hollywood Vampires, Generation Sex, Coheed and Cambria + 1 group.
- Mainstage 2 : Parkway Drive, Architects, In Flames, I Prevail, Code Orange.
- Altar scene : Testament, Dark Angel, Exodus, Holy Moses, Vektor, Evil Invaders, Schizophrenia, Aaleister.
- Temple Scene : Fields of the Nephilim, Paradise Lost, Lord of the Lost, She past away, Treponem Pal, The old dead tree, Strigoi, Blod.
- Valley Scene : Melvins, Dance with the dead, Legion of Doom, Mutoid Man, Empire State Bastard, Wolvennest, Doodsheshader + 1 group.
- Warzone Scene : Fishbone, Svinkels, Ludwig von 88, Poesie Zero, Voice of Hell Contest.
The concerts of the day of Thursday June 15 will begin in the middle of the afternoon on the 6 stages of the festival.
- Mainstage 1 : Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Alter Bridge, Skid Row, Elegant Weapons, British Lion, The Quireboys, P-Troll.
- Mainstage 2 : Sum 41, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, Motionless in White, Eths, Nothing More, Mod Sun, Escape The Fate, Vended.
- Temple scene : Behemoth, Dark Funeral, Harakiri for the sky, Imperial Triumphant, Blackbraid.
- Altar scene : Katatonia, Hypocrisy, Candlemass, Nightfall and Aephanemer.
- Valley Scene : Amenra, The Soft Moon, Birds in Row, Celeste, Today is the day.
- Warzone scene : Rancid, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordelo, Less than Jake, Cockney Rejects, The Chats, Comintern Sect, Peter Pan Speedrock, Syndrome 81.
- Mainstage 1 : Iron Maiden, Porcupine Tree, Carpenter Brut, Puscifer, Beast in Black, Riverside, Evergrey, Scarlean.
- Mainstage 2 : Within Temptation, Powerwolf, Arch Enemy, Seether, Asking Alexandria, Fever 333, Bloodywood, Cobra the Impaler.
- Temple scene : Venom Inc., Gorgoroth, 1349, Vreid, Der Weg einer Freiheit, 1914, ACOD, Belends, Hetroertzen.
- Altar scene : As I Lay Dying, Suffocation, Bloodbath, Aborted, Unearth, Full of Hell, Nostromo, Candy, Venefixion.
- Valley Scene : The Cult, Greg Puciato, Primitive Man, Weedeater, Helms Alee, Bongripper, LLNN, My Diligence + 1 group.
- Warzone scene : Blackflag, Municipal Waste, Stray from the path, Pro-Pain, Soul Glo, Mindforce, Spiritworld, Zulu, Hard Mind.
- Mainstage 1 : Slipknot, Pantera, Amon Amarth, Hatebreed, Hollywood Undead, Ho99o9, Florence Black, Do or Die.
- Mainstage 2 : Tenacious D, Incubus, Electric Callboy, Halestorm, The Distillers, Thundermother, Skynd.
- Temple scene : The Hu, Faun, Finntroll, Myrath, Saor, Svalbard, Kalandra, White Ward, Nature Morte.
- Altar scene : Meshuggah, Voivod, Lorna Shore, Born of Osiris, Gorod, Loathe, Ten56., The Dali Thundering Concept, Pestifer.
- Valley Scene : Clutch, Monster Magnet, Earthless, The obsessed, Stoned Jesus, Crowbar, King Buffalo, Spirit Adrift, Decasia.
- Warzone scene : The Ghost Inside, Rise of the Northstar, The Amity Affliction, Cane Hill, Paleface, End, Resolve, Beyond the Styx.
Since Tuesday February 14, the day the 20,000 day passes went on sale, the Hellfest ticket office has been fully booked. The official resale takes place at the partner REELAX TICKETS.
- 4 Day Pass : 339 €
- 4 Day Pass + Hellfest Book – The Bible : 400 €.
- 1 day pass : the information was not communicated by the organizers.
The great mass of metal which takes place on the lands of Clisson, a small peaceful town in Loire-Atlantique not far from Nantes, takes place over 4 days in 2023, from Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 June 2023, unlike previous years (the only exception with Knotfest in 2019). The organizers have therefore added an extra day, which suggests big names, to the delight of festival-goers.
At Hellfest, we sometimes feel like we are growing wings in terms of clothing. Many festival-goers dare improbable looks, competing in imagination. Scottish kilts, possessed nun outfits, 10-foot-long beards, diapers, superhero masks… But that’s not all:
Linternaute.com produced the photo report above on Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26, 2022, to make you relive the show of the memorable groups that paraded on the Mainstages during the last week of the double anniversary edition, before the arrival of Metallica as a final bouquet!