Hellfire Festival Explained

Music Festival Name:Hellfire Festival
Years Active:2009
Genre:Heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal

The Hellfire Festival was a heavy metal festival held twice in 2009. The first edition of the festival was held at the O2 Academy in Islington, London in February and the second at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in November. The events were organized by the Transcend Music Group.

Hellfire I

The first edition of the Hellfire Festival was held from Friday, 20 February to Sunday, 22 February 2009 at the 02 Academy in Islington, London. More than 32 bands appeared at the festival spread over two stages and across the three days.[1] Tickets for the festival were priced at £16.50 (Friday), £20.00 (Saturday), £18.00 (Sunday) or £50 for a three-day pass.

Main Stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Overkill
Exodus
Gama Bomb
Torture Squad
Firewind
Alestorm
Panic Cell
The More I See
The Defiled
Godsized
Breed 77
Sabbat
Warrior Soul
Exit Ten
Anterior
Outcryfire
The Hollowed Earth Theory
Metalloid
Scuzz Stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Stage ClosedAnnotations of an Autopsy
Trigger the Bloodshed
The Rotted
Burning Skies
Dead Beyond Buried
RSJ
Scar My Eyes
Malefice
Sacred Mother Tongue
Romeo Must Die
Forever Never
Cinders Fall
Idiom
Soul Destruction
Imicus

Hellfire II

The second edition of the Hellfire Festival was to take place from Friday, 6 November to Sunday, 8 November 2009 in Halls 8 and 9 of the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, in conjunction with the Music Live exhibition.[2] More than 38 bands were to appear at the festival spread over three stages and across the three days[3] but the Friday was cancelled due to poor ticket sales. This led to a confusing stage allocation, where 4 stages were listed but with only three locations. Tickets were priced at £25 per day or £55 for a three-day pass.

Main Stage
Friday (cancelled)SaturdaySunday
CKY (cancelled)
Cancer Bats (cancelled)
Electric Eel Shock (cancelled)
Saxon
Anvil
Benediction
Blaze Bayley
Evile (cancelled)
Sacred Mother Tongue
Beholder
Fields of the Nephilim
My Dying Bride
Anathema
Katatonia
October File
Seretonal
The Big Cheese Stage
Friday (cancelled)SaturdaySunday
The Dead Formats (cancelled)The Rotted
Malefice
Ted Maul
Gama Bomb
The More I See
Viatrophy
(cancelled)Bury Tomorrow
Scar My Eyes
Outcry Collective
The Painted SmilesBlakfish
Lost Souls Club
Arthemis
Huron
The Scuzz Stage
Friday (cancelled)SaturdaySunday
Senser
Fei Comodo
Esoterica
Deaf Havana
Imicus
Mayra Roxx
New Device
Viking Skull
The Cumshots
Spit Like This
Tesseract
No Made Sense
Xerath
the Morning After

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hellfire One . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090901135450/http://www.hellfirefestival.com/one/?page=lineup . 1 September 2009 .
  2. Web site: Hellfire joins Music live . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604061534/http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/hammer-sponsored-hellfire-festival-hooks-up-with-music-live/ . 4 June 2011 .
  3. Web site: Hellfire Two.