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2025 HELLFEST Festival Daily Lineups Revealed

By Tony Sanchez, @OculosCaecos, European Correspondent
Sunday, December 29, 2024 @ 9:57 AM


Taking Place June 19-22 In Clisson, France

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The Hellfest 2025 lineup brings both surprises and confirmations, reflecting the festival's evolving identity. Headliners include MUSE, KORN, LINKIN PARK, and SCOPRIONS, a mix that broadens Hellfest's scope beyond traditional metal. This development, though divisive among die-hard metal fans, acknowledges the aging of the scene and the need for new headliners to emerge, a challenge for any genre to stay relevant. Nostalgia may drive calls for acts like SLAYER or MORBID ANGEL to top the bill yearly, but festivals must adapt or risk stagnation.

My 2024 live report sorta predicted MUSE's debut as a headliner, and their inclusion signals Hellfest's willingness to take bold risks. The expansion into mainstream territory, however, isn't without controversy. Adding MUSE, while refusing Marilyn Manson due to unresolved allegations raises questions about whether Hellfest is navigating a broader cultural shift. This year's focus on diversity, highlighted by a Mainstage 2 lineup featuring female-fronted acts like wITHIN TEMPTATION, SPICA, SPIRITBOX, and KITTIE suggests a calculated effort to appeal to modern sensibilities. Whether this resonates with metal's core community remains to be seen.

Beyond the main stages, Hellfest retains its metal roots across four other stages, delivering a diverse program for fans of black, death, thrash, and doom. Lesser-known but genre-pioneering acts like LINDEMANN, HEILUNG, and SATCHVAI (featuring Steve Vai and Joe Satriani) add depth, ensuring that purists aren't left behind. The eclectic mix also includes reunions, like perhaps the much-anticipated return of ACID BATH to headline the Valley on Friday (?), and intriguing debuts from over 100 artists.

Despite the controversies, Hellfest continues to showcase the resilience and evolution of the extreme music scene. As the festival approaches, one thing is clear: Clisson remains a vital hub for metal, offering a unique blend of tradition and reinvention. The 2025 edition might not please everyone, but it's poised to offer a high-quality lineup to feed all eager ears.

Full Line-Up:

Thursday, June 19:
Mainstage 1

  • Korn
  • Till Lindemann
  • Airbourne
  • Apocalyptica
  • Skindred
Mainstage 2
  • Electric Callboy
  • Ultra Vomit
  • Imminence
  • Kim Dracula
  • Seven Hours after Violet
Warzone
  • The Hellacopters
  • Trubonegro
  • Soft Play
  • Street Dogs
  • Teen Mortgage
Valley
  • Orange Goblin
  • Monkey3
  • Pile Cat
  • Slomosa
  • Tar Pond
Altar
  • Jinjer
  • Whitechapel
  • Fit for an Autopsy
  • Mental Cruelty
  • Walkways
Temple
  • Alcest
  • Sunn O)))
  • Ihsahn
  • Thy Catafalque
  • White Ward
Friday, June 20:
Mainstage 1
  • Muse
  • The Hu
  • The Cult
  • Royal Republic
  • The Warning
  • Last Train
  • Vowws
  • Kashmir
Mainstage 2
  • Within Temptation
  • Heilung
  • Epica
  • Spiritbox
  • Kittie
  • Future Palace
  • Amira Elfeky
  • Charlotte Wessels
  • Sun
Warzone
  • Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter
  • The Damned
  • The Butchers Boys
  • The Real McKenzies
  • Leftover Crack
  • Lion's Law
  • Mike McColgan and the Bomb Squad
  • Chubby and the Gang
  • BetonArme
Valley
  • Very Special Guest
  • Pentagram
  • Masters of Reality
  • Dopethrone
  • Arabrot - Rite of Dionysus
  • Sandrider
  • Dirty Sound Magnet
  • Castle Rat
  • Wormsand
Altar
  • Exodus
  • Sacred Reich
  • Tankard
  • 3 Inches of Blood
  • Nervosa
  • Burning Witches
  • The Night Eternal
  • Hexecutor
  • Furies
Temple
  • In Extremo
  • Wind Rose
  • Trollfest
  • Sowulo
  • Manegarm
  • Luc Arbogast
  • Skiltron
  • Perchta
  • Morgaten
Saturday, June 21:
Mainstage 1
  • Scorpions
  • Satchvai Band (Joe Satriani and Steve Vai)
  • Black Country Communion
  • Myles Kennedy
  • Tremonti
  • The Southern River Band
  • Audrey Horne
  • Lucie Sue
Mainstage 2
  • Judas Priest
  • Dream Theater
  • Savatage
  • Peyton Parrish
  • Beyond The Black
  • Freak Kitchen
  • Ross The Boss
  • Majestica
  • ADX
Warzone
  • Turnstile
  • Defeater
  • Terror
  • Stick to Your Guns
  • Nasty
  • The Chisel
  • Spy
  • Pest Control
  • Last Hounds
Valley
  • Russian Circles
  • Have a Nice Life
  • Windhand
  • My Sleeping Karma
  • Conan
  • Stoned Jesus
  • Mars Red Sky
  • The Midnight Ghost Train
  • Howard
Altar
  • Leprous
  • Vola
  • The Ocean
  • Wheel
  • Persefone
  • Vulture Industries
  • Urn
  • Syk
  • Vestige
Temple
  • Bathory - Blood Fire Death
  • Abbath "Doom Occulta
  • Deafheaven
  • Grima
  • Spectral Wound
  • Agriculture
  • Tryglav
  • Witch Club Satan
  • Lunar Tombfields
Sunday, June 22:
Mainstage 1
  • Linkin Park
  • Cypress Hill
  • Refused
  • Eagles of Death Metal
  • Dead Poet Society
  • Blackgold
  • Ashen
  • Bastardane
Mainstage 2
  • Falling in Reverse
  • A Day to Remember
  • Motionless in White
  • Lorna Shore
  • Poppy
  • Novelists
  • Blood Command
  • The Chainsaw Motel
Warzone
  • Knocked Loose
  • Walls of Jericho
  • Gorilla Biscuits
  • Guilt Trip
  • Good Riddance
  • Pain of Truth
  • Gouge Away
  • Calcine
Valley
  • Jerry Cantrell
  • Health
  • Kylesa
  • Thou
  • Prayers
  • Faetooth
  • Crows
  • Black Bile
Altar
  • Dethklok
  • Unleashed
  • Cattle Decapitation
  • Gutalax
  • Signs of The Swarm
  • Une Misere
  • Guineapig
  • Tsar
Temple
  • Eisbrecher
  • The Kovenant
  • Priest
  • Shaarghot
  • Unto Others
  • AlukTodolo
  • The CemertaryGirlz
  • Gravekvlt


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