Hellfest
Sign in to saveHellfest (), also known as Hellfest Summer Open Air, is a rock festival focusing on heavy metal music, held annually in June in Clisson, 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 biggest to exist in France. It has been referred to as "the most diverse extreme metal festival in the world," and is a favorite of many musicians to perform at.
Key facts
- Music festival.music_festival_name
- Hellfest
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- Music festival.caption
- Hellfest 2022
- Music festival.location
- Clisson, Loire-Atlantique, France
- Music festival.years_active
- 2006–present
- Music festival.dates
- Mid-June
- Music festival.attendance
- 420,000
- Music festival.capacity
- 60,000
- Music festival.founders
- Ben Barbaud and Yoann Le Nevé
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Hellfest (), also known as Hellfest Summer Open Air, is a rock festival focusing on heavy metal music, held annually in June in Clisson, 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 biggest to exist in France. It has been referred to as "the most diverse extreme metal festival in the world," and is a favorite of many musicians to perform at.
It originated in another music festival, the Fury Fest, held from 2002 to 2005, in different areas of Pays de la Loire. Hellfest took over in 2006 and over the years has seen a continuous rise in visitors, from 22,000 in the first edition, to 55,000 tickets sold per day in 2017. In 2022, the seven-day festival featured 350 bands and was attended by 60,000 people per day.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hellfest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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