I mentioned this to some of my friends who like heavy metal type music and they had heard of this event, although it’s not really within the realms of my musical knowledge which becomes uncertain when it gets loud.
Located around 30 kilometres south-east of Nantes is Clisson, home of Hellfest, France’s largest extreme music festival and one of the biggest metal events in Europe. Founded in 2006, it now attracts more than 280,000 visitors across four days, with stages devoted to metal, hard rock, punk and hardcore music. For most of the year Clisson is an attractive little town of vineyards, medieval buildings and riverside scenery, before June arrives and it is temporarily occupied by several hundred thousand people wearing black T-shirts and discussing which form of screaming is the most musically sophisticated.
I’m sure it’s very lovely and I had a look at the food vendors at this year’s festival and they seemed quite appealing. At least that’s something that I would have properly understood.