Regarding HELLFEST(OG)

Official Statement Regarding HELLFEST V 1.0 6/25

To those who care,

I began speaking with Josh Trustkill successful June of 2024 astir bringing backmost Hellfest for 2025. I explained that it was thing that I had already been reasoning astir doing successful Syracuse arsenic it was coming up connected the 20 years of it coming to its abrupt extremity successful 2005. I precise explicitly explained to him my concerns for what it would look similar to bring the fest backmost from the dormant aft 2 decades. With today's euphony fest situation it would request to beryllium done with tact and readying and astir importantly it had to stay existent to what the festival was ever about. It could NOT conscionable beryllium a dumbed down inexpensive currency grab. The Hellfest marque has a batch of heft, it's beauteous notorious and beauteous rapidly it could get that nostalgia and notoriety monetized and served up. I was precise adamant that if Hellfest did marque a instrumentality of sorts that immoderate benignant of a motion indispensable beryllium made successful Syracuse. Its a smaller marketplace than wherever we had it successful 04(and would of successful 05) successful NJ, but determination needed to beryllium a sizable amusement oregon fest successful Syracuse to grant wherever it each began. In our talks we thought determination mightiness beryllium aggregate events implicit the summertime astir the northeast, it was each speculation and possibility.

Trustkill Records was 1 of the bigger and good known sponsors of Hellfest implicit the years. Due to communal branding, friendships, set relationships and a myriad of different things it made bully consciousness to squad up. I expressly told Josh that astir everyone other that had ever worked with oregon for Hellfest successful the past had ripped it off, stolen from it, taken vantage of it, utilized it to their ain ends and helped origin it to person a ton of problems. So I had superior spot issues, but since I had implicit the years ne'er had thing but a bully narration with him I was beauteous assured that we could enactment thing out. Haha! Whoops.

There were immoderate issues trying to get the Hellfest domain back. Some feline had it and wanted a batch of wealth for it, Josh tried negotiating with the feline for it, helium yet settled for respective 1000 dollars. I offered astatine 1 constituent to conscionable divided the outgo with Josh conscionable to get it but helium refused. In information erstwhile helium procured the domain etc, one was unaware and that was precise evidently intentional.

With the Hellfest namesake up successful the aerial , the precise evident Hellphyra fest was started successful its stead. The branding, logo, and hybrid sanction are/were a placeholder until Hellfest was procured. I conjecture if Hellfest.com was ne'er made disposable past it would person conscionable stayed Hellphyra, But arsenic soon arsenic Hellfest.com was available, the 2 brands started to beryllium utilized interchangeably. So overmuch truthful that present someway the archetypal time of the 3 time Hellphyra fest is successful fact, Hellfest.

I tried to get progressive with Hellphyra amusement and erstwhile I asked for my set to play, I was denied. I was, however, asked for 1 of my aged bands, Found Dead Hanging to bash a reunion show. We could not marque it enactment that weekend. (Though possibly we should have, due to the fact that I didnt adjacent get offered a fucking summons to a amusement called Hellfest, though I deliberation the HF tattoo mightiness get maine in) At immoderate constituent a fewer months agone connection with Trustkill became erratic and pointless. After countless refusals to reply questions and explicate what the hellhole helium was doing it became evident that helium had gone wholly rogue.

I outright asked him if his intentions were to effort and consecutive up bargain the hardcore festival that one created and conscionable enactment similar due to the fact that helium bought a domain sanction that it was going to alert and helium conscionable ignored me. But I conjecture that's what's going on, truthful present we are, due to the fact that wealth ruins everything. This isn't the archetypal clip Hellfest has been hijacked. When the France HF guys asked to usage the sanction successful the aboriginal 2000s and I declined, they conscionable did it anyway. I conjecture it worked retired beauteous bully for them, but they consecutive up stole the name. There was nary deal, nary sale, nary rights, conscionable bully ole intelligence spot theft and a fuck you. Those dudes are sidesplitting it, but I mean, they are French, truthful I conjecture it's a wash.

Whatever the hellhole is happening connected July 4th 2025 successful NJ is NOT Hellfest, it looks similar a truly chill show, but it's conscionable not Hellfest. That's not however it works. You don't hijack idiosyncratic else's thought by mounting them up, cutting them out, buying a domain sanction and conscionable ignoring the existent information that you didn't make the event. And the feline who created the lawsuit did not motion disconnected connected you conscionable taking his thought and cashing successful connected it with a Wish mentation of a fest. The information that Trustkill and whoever other progressive had to spell down my backmost and prevarication and deceive radical already sucks each the integrity and spot retired of the full happening and conscionable proves that it's 100% conscionable utilizing the sanction and the marque to currency in, marque wealth and get out.

There are/were talks of a large Hellfest successful NJ successful 2026, I'm beauteous definite I won't beryllium involved. And it volition not beryllium Hellfest. It volition beryllium a elephantine currency drawback wealth scam to marque you deliberation you are going to seizure a portion of the magic from the aboriginal 2000s. It'll beryllium dormant inside, due to the fact that the bosom of Hellfest volition beryllium sitting successful NY.

Hellfest was ne'er astir the money, it was ever astir doing thing fucking rad. It was astir riding connected the borderline of chaos and hanging retired with each your friends. Hellfest is infamous due to the fact that it adapted and overcame insurmountable likelihood and mountains of bullshit. Never for wealth oregon for country cred oregon to merchantability records. It was a crushed to conscionable up with each your friends and bash thing insane.

I inactive really emotion hardcore, I play successful a mates bands. I'm inactive Straight Edge and I telephone crap for what it is. I mislaid everything successful 2005 and present I was 20 years aboriginal acceptable to spell again, but nary 1 other seems to really wanna bash thing rad. They conscionable privation to fuck radical implicit and get paid.

To beryllium clear, Trustkill did not commencement oregon make Hellfest. Trustkill was an advocator and a sponsor of Hellfest for years. There was surely communal payment and precise evident transverse promotions that tied the 2 entities together. However they were some wholly abstracted companies. Due to the precocious level of branding etc, it's precise tenable to deliberation that Trustkill successful information owned oregon controlled Hellfest, this is simply not true. This couldn't beryllium evidenced immoderate further than erstwhile it got thrashed successful 2005 and I unsocial was the 1 to walk 2 years yet losing a suit against the venue and its genitor companies.

I should person addressed this sooner but I was hoping to enactment retired an amicable solution. I garbage to ticker Hellfest travel backmost from the dormant and get exploited. I garbage to ticker Syracuse get near behind. You tin imitate each you privation but it's conscionable a inexpensive c copy. You can't bargain authenticity. You cant spell connected a podcast and conscionable archer everyone that bringing backmost hellfest was your idea, arsenic if it was yours to bring backmost successful the archetypal place. I mean what the fuck are we doing here? Is that hardcore? Or is that conscionable business? Its not the mode I bash shit. No 1 other has the existent tone of this anserine festival ingrained into them. It is excessively large a portion of my beingness to fto idiosyncratic other conscionable bargain it, fuck it up and unreal everything is cool. Fuck you, its not cool.

There volition beryllium much to come, KEITH IN HELL