Hellfire Festival

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 Festival
GenreHeavy metal, thrash metal, death metal
Years active2009
Websitehellfirefestival.com

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
Friday Saturday Sunday

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
Friday Saturday Sunday

Stage Closed

Annotations 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.

  • Mistress of Ceremonies: Katie Parsons (Not in attendance)
Main Stage
Friday (cancelled) Saturday Sunday

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) Saturday Sunday

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 Smiles Blakfish
Lost Souls Club
Arthemis
Huron

The Scuzz Stage
Friday (cancelled) Saturday Sunday

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

Metal Hammer Stage Terrorizer Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Exit Ten
The Plight
Savage Messiah
Rise To Remain
The Arusha Accord
The Casino Brawl
Fury UK

Trigger the Bloodshed
Abgott
Cinders Fall
Imperial Vengeance
Ingested
No Consequence
Carcer City

  • Evile were originally booked to play the main stage on Saturday, but pulled out following the death of their bass player Mike Alexander. They were replaced on the bill by Blaze Bayley.

References
  1. "Hellfire One". Archived from the original on 1 September 2009.
  2. "Hellfire joins Music live". Archived from the original on 4 June 2011.
  3. "Hellfire Two".
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