The first wave of acts set to perform at HellFest 2025 have been announced. Check them out below.
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Next year’s instalment of the metal music festival will take place on June 19-22 in Clisson, France, and tickets are now available to purchase here.
This week, a colossal list of other artists and bands were confirmed to play – though the festival notes that one “very special guest” is still to be announced.
Over the course of the four-day bash, 184 acts will play across the festival’s six stages, with Linkin Park, Korn, Muse, and Scorpions leading the bill.
Elsewhere on the lineup are The Cult, Within Temptation, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Spiritbox, Exodus, Judas Priest, Turnstile, Dream Theater, Refused, Cypress Hill, Falling in Reverse, Knocked Loose, Eagles of Death Metal, and more.
Check out the full poster below.
The news follows Korn previously promising new music for 2024. “Yeah, new music coming out next year,” guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch explained in 2023. “I don’t know, we’re just kind of in hiding right now, just doing our own thing.”
The band’s 14th and most recent studio album, ‘Requiem’, arrived in early 2022. Around the time of its release, Davis revealed they had already begun working on its follow-up.
Earlier on their current tour, Korn played deep cut ‘Hey Daddy’ live for the first time in 25 years.
For Linkin Park, the headline slot marks one of their first festival dates since announcing their comeback earlier this year, with Dead Sara’s Emily Armstrong enlisted as vocalist on their new album ‘From Zero’.
As for Muse, the band’s Chris Wolstenholme made headlines last month when he launched a new band called Chromes and dropped two new singles.
Before then, frontman Matt Bellamy recorded a score for an Audible version of 1984, and shared behind-the-scenes images of the process. It was done for a new audio thriller based on George Orwell’s dystopian classic, which was shared on April 4 – exactly 40 years after the date of the protagonist’s first diary entry.
