Asgrim

I’m really looking forward to Hellfest, which begins this Friday (although we leave Portsmouth on Wednesday evening for the overnight ferry to Le Havre). In fact, it’s nearly rivaling Wacken in my “festival opinion”. It actually has more bands I like than Wacken this year, it’s nearer, the journey is easier, and it’s less “sold out”. Wacken has started disappointing me more and more over the last couple of years, booking bands I’m not so keen on such as Bullet for my Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold and Killswitch Engage. Yeah, they’re metal, but not my kind of metal. I’m starting to think about abandoning the organisation behemoth that is getting to Wacken for a much simpler task of booking a ferry + 2/3 hour car journey to Clisson, France. We’ll see what the festival is like soon and I’ll have a much more educated opinion.

So here’s the line-up, I’m excited!

Venom, In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, Carcass, Testament, Sick of it All, Paradise Lost, Katatonia, Mayhem, Madball, Death Angel, Marduk, Septic Flesh, Danko Jones, Baroness, Krisiun, Job for a Cowboy, Alchemist, Born From Pain, Bleeding Through, Rotting Christ, Throwdown, Eluveitie, Evile, Ultra Vomit, Ava Inferi, Kruger, Raintime, Red Mourning, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Cavalery Conspiracy, Apocalyptica, Iced Earth, Ministry, Porcupine Tree, Candlemass, Sonata Arctica, Satyricon, Anathema, Sodom, Punish Yourself, Treponem Pal, Airbourne, Disfear, Nightmare, Legion of the Damned, Anaal Nathrakh, Haemorrhage, Impaled Nazarene, Black Tide, Belphegor, The Old Dead Tree, Shining, Watain, Today is the Day, Benighted, Blazing War Machine, Slayer, Motorhead, Nofx, Opeth, Morbid Angel, Meshuggah, At the Gates, My Dying Bride, Obituary, Rose Tattoo, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Envy, Eths, Forbidden, Cult of Luna, Dying Fetus, Misanthrope, Comeback Kid, Neecrophagist, Primordial, Municipal Waste, Shai Hulud, The Ocean, Rotten Sound, Arkhon Infaustus, Origin, Between the Buried and Me, Ghost Brigade, Year of No Light