The 2024 edition of Hellfest is approaching. big steps. After having experienced a particularly difficult year, notably driven by controversies and financial problems, the festival reassures its audience by lifting the veil on its flagship project:the Keeper of Darkness.
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an ultra ambitious project for hellfest 2024
A festival of metal and extreme music, Hellfest also opened to the public. a wider range of artists in recent years. Enough to annoy the most conservative, but also and above all to attract a new audience. And it worked: 240,000 festival-goers came to the festival. Clissons in 2023. Shortly after the end of this edition, places for 2024 were announced. put up for sale, provoking the outcry of the public, who had not yet had time to recover financially.
Speaking of financial difficulties, the Hellfest got scared. His most ambitious project for the 2024 edition almost fell short. batch to cause of subsidy problem. This is an impressive sculpture called the Keeper of Darkness, on which teams from the La Machine company are working, based in Paris. Nantes. But all's well that ends well, and the sculpture appeared in public this Wednesday.
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the guardian of darkness appears in public
We already had was able to see photos of the Guardian of Darkness in full construction, allowing us to discover part of her face. We also knew how to do this. what it should look like, because the general outline of the sculpture had been determined. revealed. But given the difficulties encountered, we could fear the final result.This will not be the case, as proven by the images captured by a passerby nearby. Nantes this Wednesday, while the sculpture was out in the streets of the city. Shared by our colleagues from Ouest-France, these allow you to lay eyes on a woman with upturned horns, and equipped with eight legs.
According to the information revealed, the Guardian of Darkness is a 10 meter high sculpture which will welcome festival-goers to the entrance, and who will be able to move around.We can't wait to see it in action!