June 15-18, 2023; Headliners KISS, SLIPKNOT, MOTLEY CRUE, IRON MAIDEN

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By Tony Sanchez

The 2023 Hellfest Open Air lineup was unleashed days ago to reveal another astonishingly promising event with 180 bands confirmed so far. After a 2022 edition that spawn over two weekends featuring over 300 bands that made up for the 2020 and 2021 cancellations due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hellfest organizers have scaled the festival back down to 4 days, which is still pretty huge.

Even though the scale is back to somewhat normal, the bands set to headline this 16th edition are no less massive: KISS, MOTLEY CRUE, IRON MAIDEN and SLIPKNOT along with Def Leppard, Hollywood Vampires, Pantera, Alter Bridge, Amon Amarth, Porcupine Tree, Puscifer, Parkway Drive, Sum 41 Incubus, Tenacious D and Architects to name a few and that’s only for the main stages.

A lot of first timers in this edition and big name headliners on the other 4 stages like The Cult, Black Flag, Melvins, Gorgoroth, Clutch, Meshuggah, Rancid and Testament.

As usual, the 4-day Passes sold out within a few hours, weeks before the lineup was even announced. A testimony on the faith the hellbangers have in the organizers’ ability to always secure gigantesque lineups.

As we’ve seen in the recent past, lineups are always susceptible to change within the next 6 months but we know the 16th edition of Hellfest will definitely be a banger!

Current Lineup in Alphabetical Order:

• 1349
• 1914
• 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
• STONED 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
• UNEARTH
• VEKTOR
• VENDED
• VENEFIXION
• VENOM INC.
• VOICE OF HELL CONTEST
• VOIVOD
• VREID
• WEEDEATER
• WHITE WARD
• WITHIN TEMPTATION
• WOLVENNEST
• ZULU