For the hard rock and metal lovers out there, France’s Hellfest is an annual must-see event, and the 2023 edition is no different. Organizers have just unleashed a massive lineup of acts that will take over Clisson, France the weekend of June 15-18, 2023, with KISS, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden and Slipknot headlining the bill.
After having to cancel the 2020 and 2021 editions, organizers wanted to return in a major way and staged seven days of performances over two weekends for 2022. Now scaling back to four days, the quality still remains intact with some of rock and metal’s biggest names coming to rock audiences.
Some of 2023’s biggest tours will make stops as part of Hellfest. Motley Crue and Def Leppard are taking their tour around the world after spending 2022 together on The Stadium Tour in the U.S. KISS continue their “End of the Road” run with a Hellfest stop. The Pantera celebration tour touches down in Clisson, France and Slipknot and Iron Maiden remain top draws.
Other names of note on the 2023 bill include Def Leppard, Pantera, Hollywood Vampires, Alter Bridge, Parkway Drive, Architects, Sum 41, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, Motionless in White, Rancid, As I Lay Dying, The Cult, Porcupine Tree, Within Temptation, Black Flag, Clutch, Amon Amarth, Tenacious D, Incubus, The Ghost Inside, Melvins and plenty more. There’s 179 bands in total and you can see the full lineup below.
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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
BLACKBRAID
BLACK FLAG
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
DOODSESHADER
DO OR DIE
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
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT
INCUBUS
IN FLAMES
I PREVAIL
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
PALEFACE
PANTERA
PAPA ROACH
PARADISE LOST
PARKWAY DRIVE
PESTIFER
PETER PAN SPEEDROCK
POESIE ZERO
PORCUPINE TREE
POWERWOLF
PRIMITIVE MAN
PRO-PAIN
P-TROLL
PUSCIFER
RANCID
RESOLVE
RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR
RIVERSIDE
SAOR
SCARLEAN
SCHIZOPHRENIA
SEETHER
SHE PAST AWAY
SKID ROW
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
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