KISS, MÖTLEY CRÜE, IRON MAIDEN and SLIPKNOT will headline next year’s edition of Hellfest, set to take place June 15-18, 2023 in Clisson, France. Also scheduled to appear are DEF LEPPARD, PANTERA, HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES, PORCUPINE TREE, AMON AMARTH, ALTER BRIDGE and WITHIN TEMPTATION, among many others. The full lineup can be found on the poster below.
Hellfest 2023 confirmed performers:
IRON MAIDEN
KISS
MÖTLEY CRÜE
DEF LEPPARD
SLIPKNOT
PANTERA
HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES
ALTER BRIDGE
PORCUPINE TREE
GENERATION SEX
AMON AMARTH
PARKWAY DRIVE
SUM 41
WITHIN TEMPTATION
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
SKID ROY
ELEGANT WEAPONS
BRITISH LION
THE QUIREBOYS
P-TROLL
CARPENTER BRUT
PUSCIFER
BEAST IN BLACK
RIVERSIDE
EVERGREY
SCARLEAN
HATEBREED
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
HO99O9
FLORENCE BLACK
DO OR DIE
ARCHITECTS
IN FLAMES
I PREVAIL
CODE ORANGE
MACHINE GUN KELLY
PAPA ROACH
MOTIONTLESS IN WHITE
ETHS
NOTHING MORE
MOD SUN
ESCAPE THE FATE
VENDED
POWERWOLF
ARCH ENEMY
SEETHER
ASKING ALEXANDRIA
FEVER 333
BLOODYWOOD
COBRA THE IMPALER
TENACIUS D
INCUBUS
ELECTRIC CALLBOY
HALESTORM
THE DISTILLERS
THUNDERMOTHER
SKYND
FISHBONE
SVINHELS
LUDWIG VON 88
POESIE ZERO
VOICE OF HELL CONTEST
RANCID
FLOGGING OLLY
GOGOL BORDELLO
LESS THAN JAKE
COCHNEY REJECTS
THE CHATS
HOMINTERN SECT
PETER PAN SPEEDROCK
SYNDROME 81
BLACK FLAG
MUNICIPAL WASTE
STRAY FROM THE PATH
PRO-PAIN
SOUL GLD
MINDFORCE
SPIRITWORLD
ZULU
HARD MIND
THE GHOST INSIDE
RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR
THE AMITY AFFLICTION
CANE HILL
PALEFACE
END
RESOLVE
BEYOND THE STYX
AMENRA
THE SOFT MOON
BIRDS IN ROW
CELESTE
TODAY IS THE DAY
THE CULT
GREG PUCIATO
PRIMITIVE MAN
WEEDEATER
HELMS ALEE
BONGRIPPER
LLNN
MY DILLIGENCE
CLUTCH
MONSTER MAGNET
EARTHLESS
THE OBSESSED
SONED JESUS
CROWBAR
KING BUFFALO
SPIRIT ADRIFT
DECASIA
MELVINS
DANCEWITH THE DEAD
LEGION OF DOOM
MUTOID MAN
EMPIRE STATE BASTARD
WONVENNEST
DOODSESHADER
KATATONIA
HYPOCRISY
CANDLEMASS
NIGHTFALL
AEPHANEMER
AS I LAY DYING
SUFFOCATION
BLOODBATH
ABORTED
UNEART
FULL OF HELL
NOSTROMO
CANDY
VENEFIXION
MESSUGGAH
VOIVOD
LORNA SHORE
BORN OF OSIRIS
GOROD
LOATHE
TEN56
THE DALI THUNDERING CONCEPT
PESTIFER
TESTAMENT
DARK ANGEL
EXODUS
HOLY MOSES
VEKTOR
EVIL INVADERS
SCHIZOPHRENIA
ALEISTER
BEHEMOTH
DARK FUNERAL
HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT
BLACKBRAID
VENOM INC.
GORGOROTH
1349
VREID
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
1914
ACOD
BELEDS
HETQUERTZEN
THE HU
FAUN
FINNTROLL
MYRATH
SAOR
SVALBARD
HALANDRA
WHITE WARD
NATURE MORTE
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM
PARADISE LOST
LORD OF THE LOST
SHE PAST AWAY
TREPONEM PAL
THE OLD DEAD TREE
STRIGOI
BLOD
Hellfest is an annual open-air festival and one of the biggest metal festivals in all of Europe. After canceling the 2020 and 2021 installments due to the ongoing pandemic, Hellfest returned in 2022 and was held over two weekends, with seven days of performances from many of the biggest metal and hard rock acts in the world.
Headliners for the 2022 edition of Hellfest included GUNS N’ ROSES, METALLICA, JUDAS PRIEST, DEFTONES, GHOST and KORN. In 2023, Hellfest is moving to a four-day format to welcome more than 200 bands on the six stages of the festival. Metal legends, underground nuggets and sure values will mix to offer festival-goers the cream of extreme music.
Hellfest, which drew 180,000 people in 2019, generally features a lineup which is 90 percent made up of international acts and 20 percent of spectators coming from abroad. In the heart of the festival, the Hell City Square offers a walk into partner booths, a gallery of exhibitors, a huge metal market with a decoration worthy of the greatest science-fiction movies.
