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A Colossal Weekend can now reveal the first names for the 2027 edition of the festival.

First announcements range from one of noise rock's most uncompromising institutions and British cult doom to Brazilian future post-rock and one of the internet's 'secret' underground phenomena.

The first four acts are: A Place To Bury Strangers, Anthropocene, Sadness and Warning.

A Colossal Weekend 2027 will feature around 30 acts and will take place in VEGA and Basement from May 13th to 15th, 2027.

A Colossal Weekend is the Nordic region's leading festival for genre-crossing and experimental heavy music.

Since 2016, the festival has presented artists such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Cult of Luna, Chat Pile, Anna von Hausswolff, Russian Circles and Deafheaven, alongside a wide selection of the international underground and tomorrow's trendsetting names. The festival is organized by VEGA in collaboration with Danish and international partners.

With the first four acts, the festival is already drawing the contours of the musical journey that will unfold in VEGA and Basement until May 2027.

A Place To Bury Strangers (US)
Few bands have challenged the borderland between noise rock, shoegaze and post-punk as uncompromisingly as American A Place To Bury Strangers over the past twenty years. Led by Oliver Ackermann, the New York trio has built a reputation as one of the alternative music scene's most intense live bands, where almost physical feedback, light and volume merge into an all-consuming concert experience.

Warning (UK)
Warning stands as one of doom metal's most cult-like names. When Patrick Walker and the rest of the band released their Rituals of Shame, ending a wait of almost twenty years since its predecessor Watching From A DistanceMeanwhile, the latter has grown to near mythological status among doom fans worldwide, while countless bands have attempted to emulate the special combination of melancholy, heaviness and vulnerability that Warning made their own.

Anthropocene (BR)
From Brazil comes Antropoceno, one of the most interesting new names at the intersection of post-rock, avant-garde metal, psychedelia and South American musical traditions. The project works with everything from nature recordings and ritualistic rhythms to huge, cinematic compositions, creating an expression that feels equal parts ancient and futuristic. Antropoceno is a name that points forward, and a perfect example of the new generation of artists who are challenging the idea of what heavy and experimental music can be.

Sadness (US)
Over more than a decade and a staggering number of releases, Sadness has built a dedicated global fan base with its deeply personal blend of black metal, shoegaze, screamo and sad-core. The project has long been surrounded by an almost cultish fascination among fans of the modern underground, and although Sadness has only begun performing live in recent years, the opportunity to experience the project remains rare. At A Colossal Weekend 2027, audiences can experience Sadness in Denmark for the first time.

Arab Strap (UK)
Arab Strap call themselves, with reference to a forgotten newspaper from the nineties, “The Proclaimers from Hell”, and three decades later that description still gets closer to the truth than most genre tags. After a famously dark previous album, the new album Half-Told Tales carries what they themselves call genuine joy, with hope smuggled in alongside songs about fatherhood, the manosphere and far-right grifters. It is a band built on contradictions that somehow still only ever sounds like one thing: itself.

Inter Arma (US)
Twenty years into a career spent consistently refusing to stand still, Inter Arma have moved across six full-length albums without ever settling into one particular shape for long. Inter Arma live feels less like a concert than a siege of its own. Vocalist Mike Paparo rarely stays put, disappearing into the crowd to throw himself around, while drummer TJ Childers attacks his kit like it has personally wronged him.

Messa (IT)
At the centre of Messa is a simple, almost stubborn rule the band holds itself to. Hearing the same idea twice is enough, a third time makes it boring. That restlessness runs through everything Messa does, with structures that shift shape mid-song, instruments traded and reassigned, and moods that comfort in one passage and destroy in the next. They have spent more than a decade chasing that exact collision, channelling jazz, blues, punk, prog, black metal and dark ambient into a sound they eventually simply gave a name of their own: Scarlet Doom.

Doom Gong (US)
DOOM GONG are seven multi-instrumentalists from Louisville, Kentucky, who gave up trying to describe their own sound and instead invented a new genre for it: Denim Psych, built, in their own words, on nothing more complicated than blood, sweat and a lot of denim. Everything about DOOM GONG runs on more hands and more ideas than one genre can hold. At their shows, you go from nodding along to suddenly finding yourself caught somewhere between dancing and headbanging without quite noticing the shift.

FREDLØS (DK)
The self-titled debut album, Fredløs (Over The Under Records, 2026), is what grief sounds like when it has stopped holding back: ravaged, desperate, and almost unbearably beautiful. It took two years to make and is written as a farewell letter about loss and love, not least between friends. Black metal is the foundation, but streaks of blackgaze, indie, and catchy melodies keep surfacing, and the sound thins out into stretches of real tenderness, where the quiet moments feel as exposed as the heavy ones.

OMSORG (DK)
Some hardcore bands keep their hearts well hidden. Omsorg (Danish for care) hold theirs right out in the open. The debut album Moments, Movements (2023) arrived first, followed by the EP Echoes (Puffin Artlab, 2024), recorded live as a band: shorter, rawer, more melodic, and aching in all the right places – both releases embody grief, loneliness, anxiety, and community. Omsorg play fast and tight and look like they are having the time of their lives. The screams come with wide smiles, the bass grins through the knottiest passages, and the drums, pushed to the front of the stage, never let the pulse sag.

LACK (DK)
LACK live is a collective act and art. The renowned Copenhagen band reinvented itself with every record, from the screamo and hardcore of Blues Moderne: Danois Explosifs (2001), through the punk-hearted emo of Be There Pulse (2005), to the dance-ready indie of Saturate Every Atom (2008), each time leaving the last album's expectations behind.

PORTAL PETS (DK)
Since the debut concert in October 2025, Portal Pets have grown quickly into a band that is worth seeing in the flesh. The three play with a close attention to one another that makes the songs feel bigger than they do on record. The set moves between hush and force, with melodies carried high above a raw foundation, and the room is drawn in before it notices. Songs move between Spanish and English, and the influences, from grunge and folk to metal and alternative rock, are bent out of shape until they belong to nobody but the band.

WINDHAND (US)
Windhand deliver hypnotic, fuzz-drenched doom with heavy riffs, psychedelic swells and the haunting vocals of Dorthia Cottrell. Balancing crushing heaviness with a grunge-infused sweetness, their sound pulls you under and lets you drift. With their unmistakable sound and a catalogue of landmark albums, Windhand have become legends in their own right. After years away from Danish stages, Windhand return for a rare chance to experience their slow-burning heaviness live.

DIS FIG (DE)
Dis Fig, the experimental project of vocalist and sound artist Felicia Chen, moves between experimental electronics, industrial rhythms and noise, placing the human voice at the centre of her sound. Drawing on years in New York’s DIY noise scene and Berlin’s experimental underground, she creates intense, immersive soundscapes that shift between fragile whispers, haunting harmonies and full-throated screams. Live, Dis Fig delivers a raw and physical performance where tenderness and brutality collide, pushing the limits of the voice and body.

MOURIR (FR)
Mourir write for the room, and the room hears it first in the body: blast beats that rattle the jaw, tremolo that sets the nerves on edge, a voice that travels from growl to howl without drawing breath. The songs close in tight and stay there until the tension snaps, and then, for a moment, the guitars turn strangely beautiful. Mourir play it head-on, and the aim is trance.

HEMELBESTORMER (BE)
Hemelbestormer do not do small. The Belgian four-piece rose in 2012 from the hardcore, doom, and black metal scenes. They play in the dark, and the stage belongs to sigils and sound. A drone settles in the breastbone and stays there while slow arpeggios turn over it until your pulse has changed tempo without asking. Then the mass arrives: drums at a slow, heavy gait, guitars stacked into one dense body of sound that you feel in your teeth. In the middle of it a single bright melody surfaces, small and stubborn, and refuses to go out.

THIS GIFT IS A CURSE (SE)
This Gift Is A Curse have been pushing the boundaries of black metal, sludge and hardcore since forming in Stockholm in 2008. Their sound is dark, chaotic and unpredictable, blending dissonant guitars, relentless double bass and crushing riffs with elements of death metal, shoegaze and post-metal. Led by Jonas A. Holmberg's ferocious vocals, the Swedish five-piece balance sheer aggression with atmospheric passages, creating a sound that is both suffocating and explosive. Live, the band embrace the raw and unpredictable side of their music, delivering an intense experience where no two performances are alike.

MIZMOR (US)
Mizmor is the solo project of A.L.N., formed in Portland, Oregon, in 2012. Blending black metal, sludge, doom and ambient passages, Mizmor creates a sound that moves between crushing heaviness and moments of fragile beauty. Rooted in themes of consciousness, humanity and the search for meaning, the music is both deeply personal and uncompromising. Live, furious blast beats give way to slow, suffocating sludge doom, as crushing riffs and oppressive drums collide with atmospheric passages. Both punishing and meditative, Mizmor delivers an intense and immersive experience.

DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGT (UK)
Dragged Into Sunlight are one of the most uncompromising acts in extreme metal. Since forming in 2006, the mysterious British band have built a sound that fuses black metal, death metal, sludge, doom and noise into something truly oppressive. Known for their anonymity and painstaking approach to songwriting, they strip hours of recordings down to raw, relentless intensity. With their backs turned to the audience, skulls, candles and strobes setting the scene, the band deliver a live experience as intense, unpredictable and uncompromising as their music.

You can read more about the program via the link. here .

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A Colossal Weekend is supported by Liveurope. Liveurope is the first pan-European initiative supporting concert venues in their efforts to promote emerging European artists. Liveurope is co-funded by the EU's Creative Europe programme.