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Hellfest 2013 Lineup
There are a few metal fests on the old must-attend wishlist, including, but not comprehensively, Wacken, 70,000 Tons of Metal, Summer Breeze, and Hellfest.
Hellfest 2013 is particularly on my list since Twisted Sister is there, and that’s a band I must see before we die. Of course there are plenty of other acts that are grabbing my attention, and it would be as painful as losing a particular appendage to choose between some of them.
Of course Def Leppard is interesting, especially if they play a set comprised mostly of pre-Hysteria stuff. KISS is obviously on my list, as is Down, Hellyeah (and those two bands should find a way to perform a couple songs together, if you know what I mean), ZZ Top, Stonesour, Helloween, Testament, Danzig, Symphony X, Prong, Arch Enemy, Ghost, Clutch, and, well, hell, I’ll let you read the lineup below.
Hellfest is basically the brainchild of a few friends from Clisson, France, and when it started, more or less officially, in 2002 at Furyfest, it attracted 400 people to a generally punk/hardcore show. After a few close calls with permanent closure, a couple relocations, Hellfest now has six stages and attracts roughly 40,000 rabid fans on each day of the fest.
This years lineup doesn’t quit, and officials are still adding to it. Just announced yesterday, Gojira has been added – and that makes things right since they’re French and performing to a home crowd has got to be tops.
Check out the lineup below and let us know which bands you’d want to see. Hey, and let us know if you’re going.
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Main Stage 1
Friday, 21 June
Def Leppard
Twisted Sister
Whitesnake
Europe
Saxon
Hardcore Superstar
Black Spiders
Kissin’ Dynamite
Saturday, 22 June
KISS
ZZ Top
Accept
Down
3 Doors Down
Krokus
Audrey Horne
Attentat Rock
Sunday, 23 June
Volbeat
Stonesour
Gojira
Danko Jones
Mustasch
Heaven’s Basement
Waltari
Main Stage 2
Friday, 21 June
Avantasia
Helloween
Kreator
Testament
Hellyeah
Heathen
Vektor
SSS (Short Sharp Shock)
Dr Living Dead
Saturday, 22 June
Korn
Bullet for my Valentine
Papa Roach
A Day to Remember
Parkway Drive
Coal Chamber
P.O.D.
Asking Alexandria
Skindred
Sunday, 23 June
Danzig
Lordi
Symphony X
Voivod
Mass Hysteria
Riverside
Prong
The Ghost Inside
The ARRS
The Altar
Friday, 21 June
At the Gates
Six Feet Under
Ceremonial Oath
Asphyx
Between the Buried and Me
Hooded Menace
Evoken
The Old Dead Tree
Captain Cleanoff
Saturday, 22 June
Morbid Angel
Candlemass
My Dying Bride
Amorphis
Sinister
Monstrosity
Misanthrope
Dead Congregation
T.A.N.K.
Sunday, 23 June
Arch Enemy
Hypocrisy
Moonspell
Wintersun
Cryptopsy
Misery Index
Krisiun
Haemorrhage
Pig Destroyer
The Temple
Friday, 21 June
God Seed
Carpathian Forest
Primordial
ABSU
Aura Noir
Tyr
Seth
The Great Old Ones
Saturday, 22 June
Immortal
Finntrolz
Belphegor
Rotting Christ
Kampfar
Equilibrium
Koldbrann
The Secret
Hell Militia
Sunday, 23 June
Cradle of Filth
Mardor
Dark Funeral
Ihsahn
Korpiklaani
Nachtmystium
Inquisition
Leprous
Stille Volk
The Valley
Friday, 21 June
Neurosis
Sleep
High on Fire
Black Breath
Black Pyramid
Pallbearer
Black Cobra
Eagle Twin
7 Weeks
Saturday, 22 June
Manilla Road
Cult of Luna
Masters of Reality
Red Fang
Karma to Burn
Witchcraft
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
Procession
Surtr
Sunday, 23 June
Swans
Ghost
Clutch
The Sword
Spiritual Beggars
Graveyard
My Sleeping Karma
Truckfighters
Eryn Non Dae.
The Warzone
Friday, 21 June
Sick of it All
Agnostic Front
Anti Flag
Terror
Deez Nuts
Negative Approach
Bane
Berri Txarrak
Vera Cruz
Saturday, 22 June
NOFX
Bad Religion
Converge
Gallows
The Casualties
Bury Your Dead
The Acacia Strain
Retox
Justine
Sunday, 23 June
The Toy Dolls
Buzzcocks
Atari Teenage Riot
Punish Yourself
Senser
Cockney Rejects
Le Bal des Enrages
Treponem Pal
The Decline
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