Association HAMMER OF GONES is a french non profit organisation.

• Goal : to promote local metal bands and to organize live events

• Style : extreme metal  (death métal, black métal, thrash métal, grind métal...)

• Where : Lyon and suburbs

HOG wanted to reserve this date but did not find any available venue

Our first festival with 5 local band to promote

Coproduction with Music Division for this black metal gig

Reserved for a coproduction with Music Division but attributed to Printemps de Bourges festival

HOG wanted to reserve this date but did not find any available venue

BELENOS cancels this tour

First gig with death metal bands

Local venue MJC Bron cancels after agreement

Cancelled by tour manager Metalysee Agency after agreement

Our second festival with 5 french bands to promote with Sacral and Adipocere collaboration

Another coproduction with Music Division for this death et thrash metal show. Kreator made some live recording.

First evening with a lot of metal, a lot of gifts and a lot of beer.

HOG wanted to reserve this date but did not find any available venue

Death metal gig to start this year

YATTERING missed last month but leads a 100% polish gig

HOG wanted to reserve this date but did not find any available venue

Huge success of this gig. SOLD OUT. Huge pressure to inaugurate a new Lyon's stage which opens to metal but with a lack of preparation which will create overflows. These will be charged to HOG thereafter.

Canceled by HOG due to lack of reservation

Our festival takes the name of HAMMER SMASHED FEST for his 3rd edition. 8 french bands to promote.

This great death metal show is the sum of 2 sets in the same venue and on the same day ! Some bands have already played with us. Our staff have proven themselves with 8 groups to manage.

After the big death metal show, a little underground black metal show on a small underground scene.

Second evening with a lot of metal, a lot of gifts and a lot of beer.

A show for main stream public proposed by Decibel's Storm in co-production with Music Division..

HOG booked NINKASI KAO for this date. A last minute co-organization had to be conceded because of a duplicate reservation.

A small, promising stage for an show combining two sets, but a disagreement between managers will relegate ABORTED to 3rd place to its dismay. We can note the presence of MASTODON, then little known.

We tried 2 successive sets with a single ticket. The 1st one with black and death metal

We tried 2 successive sets with a single ticket. The 2nd one with black metal

Our annual HAMMER SMASHED FEST with international headlining. BEHEMOTH helps to promote local bands.

The tour was cancelled by head band

Canceled by the Metalysee agency which considers "bad technical equipment" of the CCO stage

Canceled by HOG for failure to meet deadlines by Metalysee Agency

One last small date in this venue which is doomed for demolition. A grind metal show followed by a metal evening for the same price. Note that the poster announces "the most brutal grind band on the planet".

This FREE festival, funded by the City of LYON, leaves the field open for our promotion of local extreme metal bands. VADER voluntarily came to lead. The HAMMER SMASHED FEST usually scheduled for this date is rescheduled to September.

A new edition of our HOG festival to promote local metal underground bands. Italian band FORGOTTEN TOMB leads. This is the second festival of this type this year.

Metallian Concerts propose his festival #2 to HOG to make the job in Lyon.

DISSECTION's comeback came through Lyon with this major date. HOG added local HYSTERIA band to warm the stage.

A new metal evening in the new Ninkasi Ampère bar with a metal atmosphere, promotion of albums, showdown, blind test, prizes to be won and Ninkasi beers at negotiated prices.

Note : the shortage of beer at the end of the evening.

EPICA comes in Lyon with 2 french bands for thos show

Tour canceled following an accident by the MARDUK's drummer

An underground local show to test a new small venue.

A new show in CCO but who deserved a smaller venue

Tour postponed by the band

An appropriate set to validate this small venue and the 1st low-cost show called "BLOODY SUNDAY"

2nd low-cost show called "BLOODY SUNDAY" with death gore. Unfortunately the last in this venue following the refusal of the stage to continue for technical maladjustment.

HOG has a stand at this show to build relationships with local players in the concert industry and to introduce the association to an informed public or not. Distribution and sale of CDs and tour posters.

A new edition of our regular HOG festival to promote local metal underground bands. DECAPITATED leads and GOREROTTED joins.

Note : WHISPER-X made a live video with title HAMMER SMASHED FEST

Another big death metal show with added 2 sets in the same date

Cult band ARCTURUS in Lyon.

Following a last minute withdrawal from the Transbordeur, HOG was able to schedule this date unexpectedly, to everyone's satisfaction.

This new venue having to be the replacement hall after the demolition of the Confluent, this concert could not be assured because of the delay of its opening. Cancelled by HOG due to lack of other available room

Canceled by HOG because the date was too close to the Geneva date with the same set.

Another cancellation in this venue for same reason. Cancelled by HOG due to lack of other available room

A black metal date, welcome after these chain cancellations but which almost didn't see the light of day due to a reservation conflict with another city.

Tour cancelled by the head band

Finally a confirmed date of realized in this new venue and not in vain. The local band OBNOXIOUS will come to warm the show.

A new show to recover from this bad series at the start of the year.

After an enormous work of installation and a return to a 100% French bands set, the lack of reservation leads HOG to cancel this 7th opus of the underground promotion festival.

Contrast striking, this date with SATYRICON was SOLD OUT.

Cancelled by tour manager.

After this bad year of cancellations, this CANNIBAL CORPSE show almost FULL lifts the morale of team.

A good black and death metal show for this middle size venue

An unexpected venue for a HOG date but ideal for a small underground grind metal show in reduced conditions.

We go from bottom to top by recovering the NO MERCY FESTIVAL which has attracted cities like Paris and Strasbourg but comes for the first time to Lyon with this co-production with MY REFERENCE EVENTS, new production company of Chewbee. A festival bringing together famous bands on this date. The choice of the local band was submitted to a public vote on the forum : DESTINITY wins before BENIGHTED

Death metal show with low attendance

7 years of activity :

• 58 listed volunteers and a bunch of casuals

• 10 festivals, 30 shows et 4 evenings done

• 31 local bands on stage : ACT OF GODS, AKIN, ANKSUNAMON, ATROPHY, BENIGHTED, BLACK LODGE, BOMB SCARE CREW, BUTCHERY, CESSPIT, CRYSTALIUM, DECENT, DESTINITY, DYING WISH, ELLIPSIS, ETERNAL, EVOHE, HIMINBJORG, HYSTERIA, IPSUM, KEMET, MALMONDE, MIND RIPPER, NEBEL, NEHEMAH, OBNOXIOUS, OSIRION, SACRIFICIUM SACRALIS, TENEBRUM INFECTUS, THE NEXT FALL, URAEUS, WHISPER-X

• 50 non local french bands on stage :  NO RETURN, ULTRA VOMIT, BELENOS, INHUMATE, ARKHON INFAUSTUS...

• 139 metal bands on stage with some famous ones : IMMORTAL, DISSECTION, SATYRICON, BEHEMOTH, CANNIBAL CORPSE, KREATOR, HYPOCRISY, MARDUK, DARK FUNERAL, EXODUS, DARK TRANQUILLITY, MOONSPELL, NAPALM DEATH, BOLT THROWER, NILE, VADER...