Hellfest returns with four new days of concerts dedicated to extreme music. Mark your calendars, Hellfest awaits metalheads from Thursday June 19 to Sunday June 22, 2025. On the programming side, Hellfest has revealed the first three names for its next edition. Three groups to also discover in preview during its “Hellfest Warm-Up Tour”!
Here is the unmissable French musical event for all metal fans and other lovers of music with powerful decibels… Every year since 2006, the Hellfest Summer Open Airbetter known under the name of Hellfesthosts a very large number of groups, mainly with metal roots and, to a lesser extent, punk and hardcore.
With several tens of thousands of festival-goers and the passage of internationally renowned cult groups such as Alice Cooper, Kiss, Rammstein, Motörhead or even Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Tool and Deep Puprle, the Hellfest has established itself as one of the main European music festivals and as one of the main cultural events in France.
In 2024, the festival dedicated to extreme music once again pulled out all the stops by inviting a host of prestigious artists, including Metallica, Corey Taylor, Bruce Dickinson, Queens of the Stone Age, Babymetal, Brutus, Megadeth or Avenged Sevenfold, Machine Head, Mass Hysteria, Kerry King from Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies.
After so much emotion, festival-goers Hellfest can't wait to find the site of Clisson for again headbanger to the rhythm of great heavy metal, punk, hard rock, black metal or even progressive metal bands!
So, mark your calendars! THE Hellfest announces his return near Nantes from Thursday June 19 to Sunday June 22, 2025. And once again, the Hellfest has decided to delight your ears by offering four days of concerts and festivities.
Side 2025 programmingwho will have the honor of making you pogo and jump next summer? For now, the suspense remains as to the complete line-up, but the Hellfest has decided to keep its festival-goers waiting by revealing the names of the first three groups expected in Clisson next June.
It turns out that these three groups are also scheduled under the Hellfest Warm-Up Tour which will stop in 16 cities in France next spring. “For this 2025 formula (from the Hellfest Warm-Up Tour, editor’s note), you will have the chance to discover in preview three groups which will be scheduled for the next edition of Hellfest” announces the festival on its social networks. So, who is it? Who will have the honor of making this 2025 edition of the Hellfest Warm-Up tour and set foot on one of the stages of Hellfest in Clisson in June 2025?
Well, the festival has confirmed the presence of the French metalcore band Novelistsfrom the 100% female Brazilian team, Nervosaand the famous Welsh ragga metal band, Skindred. For the rest of the line-up and the programming by day and by stage, stay tuned!
Hellfest 2025, the program
- SKINDRED
- NERVOSA
- NOVELISTS
- …
Until then, we'll let you (re)discover the 2024 edition of Hellfest in images!
Hellfest 2024: a look back at the day of Sunday June 30
We couldn't miss the biggest metal festival in France, with more than 180 bands on the bill to discover over 4 days less than 3 hours by train from Paris! Going out in Paris means getting out of the capital for a few days to let you experience the 17th edition of Hellfest as if you were there. A look back at 10 selected moments from this Sunday, June 30, 2024, the final day of the festival. [Lire la suite]
Hellfest 2024: a look back at the day of Saturday June 29
We couldn't miss the biggest metal festival in France, with more than 180 bands on the bill to discover over 4 days less than 3 hours by train from Paris! Going out in Paris leaves the capital for a few days and lets you experience the 17th edition of Hellfest as if you were there. A look back at 10 selected moments from this day of Saturday June 29, 2024. [Lire la suite]
Hellfest 2024: a look back at the day of Friday June 28
We couldn't miss the biggest metal festival in France, with more than 180 bands on the bill to discover over 4 days less than 3 hours by train from Paris! Going out in Paris leaves the capital for a while in order to let you experience the 17th edition of Hellfest as if you were there! A look back at 10 selected moments from this Friday, June 28, 2024.
[Lire la suite]
Hellfest 2024: a look back at the day of Thursday June 27
This year again, we couldn't miss the biggest metal festival in France, with more than 180 bands on the program to discover over 4 days and less than 3 hours by train from Paris! Going out to Paris means getting away from the capital for a few days and allowing you to experience the 17th edition of Hellfest as if you were there! This Thursday marked the first day of this 2024 edition of the extreme music festival. A look back at 10 selected moments from June 27, 2024. [Lire la suite]
