Hellfest is the place to be this year – with only 20,000 people a day attending the grounds are intimate and the bands intense. This year sees classic headliners Alice Cooper, KISS, Motorhead and Twisted Sister right alongside some truly groundbreaking, genre-defining, underground bands: Immortal, GODFLESH, Sigh, Carcass and Atheist. There is something for everyone… a focus in this year’s band selection is desert rock with Weedeater, Mondo Generator, Brant Bjork and the Bros and even a reformed, edited lineup version of Kyuss! Small town France is a hospitable place to take in such a show, amidst the wine fields and misty clouds. And for the thrashers of the bunch we’ve got Overkill, Annihilator, Exodus, Sepultura and the masters of it all… Slayer. Get your ass on the plane, red wine in hand, and see more bands in week than you’ll see in your hometown in years.
-ERIK LINDHOLM
