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.
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 Stage Closed Annotations of an Autopsy Trigger the Bloodshed The Rotted Burning Skies Dead Beyond Buried
Scar My Eyes Malefice Sacred Mother Tongue Romeo Must Die Forever Never Cinders Fall Idiom Soul Destruction Imicus 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.
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 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 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 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