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A COLOSSAL WEEKEND is VEGA's genre-crossing, boundary-pushing festival for heavy, dark and experimental music. The festival presents over 3 days in May approximately 30 acts from all over the world, some of which will be completely new and unknown, while others will be established headliners. A Colossal Weekend has taken place since 2016 and has presented names such as Cult of Luna, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Deafheaven, Anna Von Hausswolff, Russian Circles, Wolves in The Throne Room, Emma Ruth Rundle and Alcest over the years.

In 2025, A Colossal Weekend will take place from May 8-10 at VEGA and Basement in Vesterbro in Copenhagen.

The names on the poster on Friday are:

SOLVENTIS (FR) 
Solvency from Toulouse play dark folk, a mix of modern Celtic folk music and folk gaze. They have four releases to date, including their latest album Alcyone (2024).

Solventis fuses the raw sound of electric guitar synthesizers with their clear vocals and frame drum, also known as bodhran, to create “musique sensible et solaire” – French for sensitive solar music. While waiting for the sun’s rays or for night to fall, Solventis honors the eternal death and rebirth as a mirror image of the cycles our minds and bodies move through our lives. “Primevère” is a song of renewal and hope, named after the medieval French name for spring and one of the first flowers to bloom in the waning winter.

ELDER (US)
The stoner rock legends perform their masterful albumLore(2015) in its entirety on A Colossal Weekend! The 10th anniversary album cemented Elder as a unique voice in the rock underground with an enormous palette of inspiration in their sound including psychedelic, stoner, prog, space, heavy and post-rock.

In the interplay of groovy heaviness, weaving melodies and unpredictable mood shifts, Elder's music unfolds like meanders into unknown cosmic territory. Faithful to the riff, the quartet explores the boundaries of the human – as it sounds, for example, in the song “Legend”: ”The whispering night//tracks in the snow//crossing the threshold//of what we all know.”

KYLESA (US)
Kylesa are resurfacing after a 10-year hiatus, picking up their experimental sludge metal where they left off in 2015, and have chosen A Colossal Weekend as one of the few places they will play in 2025!

Fronted by guitar/vocal duo Laura Pleasants and Phillip Cope, Kylesa is once again the band you can't miss in Georgia's metal scene since 2001. On seven studio albums, not least onExhausting Fire(2015), they demonstrate their enormous, sonic wingspan and unparalleled wall of sound, which has two drum kits as a base. Kylesa has been described as a force of nature, as titans of dark psych metal and as a mix of Black Sabbath, Black Flag and early Pink Floyd.

FRAIL BODY (US)
The trio Frail Body from Rockford, Illinois, blur the boundaries between post-hardcore and melodic black metal in their hectic and explosive songs. Their latest album,Artificial Bouquet(2024), moves screamo in new directions.

A rush of pulsating and thundering tempo shoots straight into the blood, bone-shaking dynamic fluctuations take hold of life. In sudden fits of sonic ebb and flow, the currents of sound pull you along the shores of the endless emotional oceans, and there is nothing you can do. And it is all so eminently and wonderfully out of control.

NIKA (ZOLA JESUS) (US)
There is a way in which a voice can cut through the fascia of reality and cleave through habit to the raw nerve of experience. Such is the voice of Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter and producer who has been releasing music under the alias since 2009. Zola Jesus .

On Friday, May 9, she will present an uncompromising, raw and industrial-inspired solo set under her own name Nika. An intense and noisy expression that shows a more experimental and personal side of her artistic work.

GAIA, Drukner, Bethmora and Lucid Grave (DK)
The four Danish doom metal bands GAIA , BETHMOORA , DROWNED and LUCID GRAVE delivers a live version of the album 'Refuse To Surrender - a Tribute to Portishead'. Four tracks, each interpreting a Portishead track from different of their releases, in classic doom instrumentation and more or less classic and "loyal" to the genre.

Alkymist (DK)
The progressive doom metal orchestra, Alkymist , have followed their own definitions of musical tempo and heaviness since 2016. They released their third album, UnnDerr, in the fall of 2024.

The music often moves somewhere between heaven and hell, which must include the earthly world but also somewhere else. In the song "UnnDerr", for example, a nymph appears who lures and whispers, but also lies and eventually blinds, all while dreams turn into nightmares. A gothic story of deception "told" by vocalist Peter Bjørneg to the tunes of a seismological landslide of guitar, bass and drums that forces you down and buries you layer by layer.

LUEENAS (DK)
The Copenhagen duo Luenas plays experimental ambient music based on strings (violin and double bass) and electronic effects that lean towards classical minimalism and slow, improvised rock and jazz. Their self-titled debut albumLuenas(2022) comes after a series of several other releases.

Lueenas creates violent and beautiful soundscapes that are almost terrifying in their panoramic grandeur. Like the soundtrack to a space journey that offers both crystal clear skies, dangerous asteroid belts and moments of intense presence. As the sounds seek not only the dizzying infinity, but find meaning in the scratches on the surface and vitality in the imperfect and unpredictable.

VULVATORIOUS (DK)
Vulvatorious weaves together various metal subgenres in their gloomy, aggressive and sludgy music and colors the sound weave very black – there is both crust-punk, thrash and black metal. In 2024 they performed at Copenhell and Roskilde Festival and released their self-titled debut album.

With song titles like “CUNT WAR” and “WITCH BURN BACK” – shouted in all caps – Vulvatory kicks up misogyny and abuse and incites rebellion in a way that’s fucking understandable. It’s painful and bloody, angry and intense – even when Ditte Krøyer growls and hisses about grief, loss and failure, which shine through the cracks in songs like “Grandma’s Song” and “Farewell. I’m Going.” The stage is on fire when Vulvatory goes on.

Valerian Swing (IT)
The Italian trio, Valerian Swing , has released four albums, the latest of which, Liminal (2024), transforms the group's math-rock into new music, taking inspiration from jazz, EDM and film music, among other things.

The liminal describes a place where norms and rules are temporarily suspended and put to the test. The group has given their artistic expression complete freedom, playfully mixing drum'n'bass, noise and dream pop with their dystopian futurism, such as in the song "The Ritual" where acid rain hits the cobblestones in an epic, neon-lit cityscape. Liminal is a wonderful, polyamorous triangle where electronic, synthetic and acoustic music meet and remind us that musical genres are changeable and open.

40 Watt Sun (UK)
40 Watt Suns rock music moves between melancholic doom and poetic lament. The trio has released four studio albums: The Inside Room (2011), Wider than the Sky (2016) and Perfect Light (2022). Their latest album, Little Weight, was released in the fall of 2024 on vocalist and guitarist Patrick Fisher's own record label, Fisher's Folly.

A modest 40 watts may not sound like a huge energy output, but make no mistake: Behind the restrained intensity in the songs – which are often about longing, love and nostalgia – lies a wholehearted heaviness.

When working on the Little Weight album, the musicians isolated themselves on a series of retreats in order to surrender to the raw, intimate and spontaneous emotions that drive the musical expression.

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The concert 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.