Hellfest Open Air 2009

[Guardian of Asgaard]

The headliners of the festival will be Manowar and Heaven And Hell. Other bands on the bill include Anthrax, Amon Amarth, Sacred Reich, Stratovarius, The Misfits, Gorgoroth, Epica, Destruction, Cathedral, Napalm Death, Entombed, Devildriver, Enslaved, Backyard Babies, Heaven Shall Burn, Melechesh, Misery Index, God Forbid, The Business, Mad Sin, Aura Noir, Electric Wizard, Orange Goblin, Grand Magus, Gama Bomb, Whitechapel, Suicide Silence, Wolves In The Throne Room, Torche, Kylesa, Outlaw Order, Parkway Drive, All Shall Perish, Forged In Flame, Friar Rush and Holy Hell.

Seventy more bands (including a third headliner) are still missing and will be announced in the next few months. Next to the main stage, second stage and discovery stage, the 2009 edition will also have another fourth stage mainly covering punk and hardcore bands.

This very evening also marks the official sneak preview party of the new Hellfest 2008 DVD, held in five cities all around France (Paris, Nantes, Grenoble, Toulouse and Lyon). Next to a preview showing of the Hellfest DVD, these parties will also exclusively reveal the first 30 bands of the 2009 edition. The Hellfest DVD will be released tomorrow (November 28), but a trailer can already be watched in high quality at this location.

Source: http://www.metalstorm.ee/events/news_comments.php?news_id=7750

 

[amon666]

 

[tagradh]

That's pretty fucking weak compared to this year.

 

[False Joe]

Arg.
Started off good, then turned into some kind of doom/metalcore clusterfuck.

BUTMANOWAR :O

 

[The Butt]

Heaven and Hell, Amon Amarth, Gorgoroth, Napalm Death, and Enslaved completely redeem all the shit bands on this list, IMO.

 

[Knarfi]

Heaven and Hell, Amon Amarth, Gorgoroth, Napalm Death, and Enslaved completely redeem all the shit bands on this list, IMO.

But just these few bands are not worth paying a shitload and traveling to france

 

[Seonadh]

Last year was kickass, and the first few bands TBA weren't amazing either, but it turned out to be awesome... This year sucks so far, but there are still nearly 70 bands TBA, so I keep hope! Also, all Punk/Hardcore shit will be held on a fourth and separate stage this year, and so not mixed in with music on the other stages like this year! The budget has gone up from 2M€ to 2,4M€, so there should be more taps/showers and toilets as well, and Iron Maiden will come and play this year, so the organiser said in an interview last year... Also the audience will go up from 13,000-14,000 this year to about 18,000-19,000 next year. So it all depends on the bands! Plus for all the fat and dirty bingers out there, there will be strip-tease and wrestling this year!^^

 

[The Butt]

But just these few bands are not worth paying a shitload and traveling to france

That's true. But were I already in France, I'd probably go and see this thing. :V

 

[bathory...]

Man, Europe gets all the good stuff. The US gets goddamn ozzfest

 

[Seonadh]

Man, Europe gets all the good stuff. The US gets goddamn ozzfest

Maybe! But you do get crazy tours! I mean last year you had tours like Dimmu Borgir + Behemoth + Keep Of Kalessin or Amon Amarth + Belphegor + Ensiferum
I mean if we had tours like that in France it'd be amazing!
As it stands, Germany gets about 10 or 15 dates on every tour, and here in France we get one in Paris, and occasionally one in Lyon. If we're very lucky we get Marseille as well. So basically if you live in France the concert tickets represent nothing next to the transport you have to pay for!

 

[tagradh]

I still think, as far as metal tours go, London (England) is the best place to be, 99% of the tiem anyway.

 

[The Butt]

Man, Europe gets all the good stuff. The US gets goddamn ozzfest

Chill, you guys get the Maryland Deathfest.

 

[bathory...]

Seonadh and The Butt, you also have to take into account that the US is pretty big, so to see Amon Amarth this fall, I had to get a parent to drive me like 2 hours north of where I live, The Maryland Deathfest is like an 8 hour train ride, I don't remember the Dimmu Borgir tour or where that was, and the Pagan Knights Tour gets about two and a half hours south of me, at it's closest point is 3 hours away. So, yeah it's in the US, but for some people like me who live halfway between Wooster/Boston and New York City (I'm about 2 hours from Wooster and 2 and a half hours from NY), and don't have a license then you're kind of stuck. If there was like one big 3 day festival somewhere in the states, then it might be worth it for me to fly there and camp out, but there's really nothing as long as Wacken, Hellfest, or BOA in the States.

I don't mean to complain so much, just explaining my situation.