Music Festivals

Music Festivals // Hellfest 2010

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Hellfest (French pronunciation: ​[ɛlfɛst]), also called Hellfest Summer Open Air, is a rock festival focusing on heavy metal music, held annually in June in Clisson in Loire-Atlantique, France. Its high attendance makes it the French music festival with the largest turnover. It is also one of the biggest metal festivals in Europe and the first to exist in France.

Hellfest festival is going to take place in June of this year in France.  One of the highlights of the festival is a performance by Godflesh, Justin Broadrick’s (Napalm Death, Jesu) band which broke up in 2002.

Other bands on the bill include:

Kiss / Immortal / Twisted Sister / 16 / Asphyx / 7 Seconds / Agnostic Front / Arch Enemy / Architects / Atheist / Behemoth / Black Cobra / Bloodbath / Born From Pain / Candlemass / Carnifex / Count Raven / Crowbar / Dark Funeral / Decapitated / The Devil’s Blood / Dying Fetus / Earth Crisis / Eluveitie / Ensiferum / Ex Deo / The Faceless / Finntroll / Freak Kitchen / General Surgery / Ghost Brigade / Gwar / Kampfar / Katatonia / Knuckledust
Magrudegrind / Monkey 3 / My Dying Bride / Necrophagist / Negura Bunget and many more

Ilya S.

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