Single-day tickets can be purchased via the ticket link.

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.

The names on the poster on Saturday are:

In 2025, A Colossal Weekend will take place from May 8-10 at VEGA and Basement in Vesterbro, Copenhagen. General admission tickets are on sale now, while the final program will be announced and single-day tickets will go on sale in early 2025.

KELLERMENSCH (DK)
KELLERMENSCH from Esbjerg have since their debut album in 2008 distinguished themselves as one of the most distinctive Danish alternative rock bands, fronted by the unique, charismatic singer and songwriter Sebastian Wolff. On record, the band's songwriting and heavy, yet delicate playing shine, and live they are no less among the country's best and most beloved.

GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (IE)
Their new masterpiece of an albumEmbers(2024) has been released on Napalm Records, and the astronauts are of course taking it with them when they visit A Colossal Weekend! God Is an Astronaut is an instrumental trio based in Wicklow, Ireland, who play progressive, psychedelic rock music spiced with instruments such as sitar, cello and frame drums.

Embers is English for embers and can be understood as slowly dying emotions, ideas and memories, which still manage to flare up and come to life again. This way of thinking about embers takes on musical form. The embers warm, the thoughts wander. Darkness surrounds you, the melody sounds sad, all the while the life and beauty of the crackling orange also glow in your own eyes.

PALLET BEARERS (US)
Mind Burns Alive shows that Pallbearer navigating the space between turmoil and serenity with unparalleled intensity. Their fifth full-length is at once poetic and raucous, a heartfelt meditation on isolation, trauma and mental breakdown, framed by the possibility of redemption and the quiet, aching beauty of escape.

While the band's previous catalog leaned on walls of guitar, massive distortion, and piercing vocals, they achieve more on Mind Burns Alive by cutting everything away. These six songs provide a unique perspective on the pain that lies at the heart of everyday experiences. Mind Burns Alive is not just an interpretation of the complex emotions. It is the musical intersection where the struggle collides with the will to continue.

JO QUAIL (UK)
The award-winning cellist and composer from London, Jo Quail , is working on new material and she may bring some of it to her solo performance at A Colossal Weekend. Jo Quail masters her instrument and combines it with innovative looping techniques to create her complex and evocative music. She often performs with other musicians in the new composition music and from the rock and metal scene.

In her latest works, Jo Quail has collaborated with a percussionist, wind instruments, and experimental vocalists Maria Franz (Heilung) and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, to channel earthy, primal, and spiritual energies into her wild and boundless soundscapes. We don't quite know what to expect from her performance, other than world-class virtuosity and musical vision and courage beyond imagination.

BOSCO SACRO (IT)
From the Italian underground brings Bosco Sacro their elegant doom-gaze to Copenhagen! Their debut album,Save(2023), is published on the Italian culturallabelAvantgarde Music, and recorded with producer Lorenzo Stecconi, who is known for conjuring up sound with bands like Amenra and Ufomammut.

Bosco Sacro means sacred forests and the band's music is a spiritual reunion with the beauty of the forest and the vast landscapes. The dreamlike universes mix devotional and liberating moments in a form of healing with an eternal, calm pulse. Song titles like "Emerald Blood" and "Be Dust" are a reminder of the well-being of the forest and time itself. Bosco Sacro sings that we will cry until our tears fill the well of the gods again.

DAUFØDT (NO)
Norwegian Stillborn has one foot firmly planted in the domain of punk, while the other kicks in doors to noise rock, drone and experimental music.

After winning a Norwegian Grammy for their rock-inspired debut album, the band decided to take a hard left turn on their second album with a harder and more raw sound. Through a collaboration with noise guru Lasse Marhaug, the band made their second album Aromatherapy and the deconstructed noise band Exposure therapy.

With their new album Glitter The band has further developed their blend of punk, noise rock and drone and looks forward to taking their characteristic high-intensity live shows on the road again.

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 Saturday, May 10, she returns as Zola Jesus at Store VEGA, where she is accompanied by the young Nordic string quartet Absalon String Quartet. Their sonorous and precise expression – shaped by award-winning tours and recognitions such as the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize – adds new nuances to Zola Jesus' dark and emotionally charged universe.

THE SEVEN MILE JOURNEY (DK)
The Quartet, The Seven Mile Journey , from Aalborg, has been playing instrumental post-rock since 1999. They have toured in several European countries and China and have played at Roskilde Festival and Dunk Festival, among others. Since 2006, they have released five albums and have a sixth on the way.

The music builds large, somber soundscapes from which the melodies develop dynamically, shifting from the sparse and fragile to intense, emotional situations. According to the band themselves, the intention is to immerse oneself in their music, to let oneself be absorbed by it. This means that the soundscapes are porous and can be broken, allowing the listener to find their way into the multidimensional spaces of sound.

GRAVA (DK)
The Danish trio plays heavy, atmospheric sludge metal and has released two studio albums, Weight of God(2022) and latest The Great White Nothing(2024).

In their own words, they act Grava songs about moments of death seen through the eyes of the dying: 128 crew members who perished during the Franklin expedition in the North Atlantic in 1845, a Swedish nobleman who was executed in 1707, 40 train passengers in a tragic train accident in Gentofte in 1897, and a soldier's last chaotic seconds in a muddy trench during World War I. The sound of these glimpses of life ending is unadorned and crushingly bleak. In death, the many glances are extinguished in different ways, in one song life ebbs away little by little, in another it ends abruptly

LASER NOW (DK)
The artist duo, drummer Anders Vestergaard and guitarist Lars Bech Pilgaard, go by the name Laser Nun. They have previously made a name for themselves with bands such as SVIN, Bisse and Girls in Airports.

At A Colossal Weekend, Laser Nun will premiere a work commissioned for the occasion and location. The title of the work is Under folkets hus Before VEGA was called VEGA, it was called Folkets Hus, and the music is staged in the Basement, literally under the former folk house, allowing the vibrations in their music to connect buildings and people over time. The work is based on music genres such as noise, doom and abstract jazz, which create new forms of concrete musical connections and explore the potential of contemporary cultural centers as havens for human encounters and multidimensional sensory experiences.

LADIES' AREA (ES)
Women's Area from Barcelona play a form of minimalist, industrial electronic music that has much in common with experimental post-punk. The Spanish duo is very productive, and most recently they released the album Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (2024), which means something like “the whole truth about Dame Area”, a sequel to the previous one, which was about all the lies, Toda la mentira sobre Dame Area (2022).

This is a dance-oriented industrial affair with bodily beats, noisy synth, and strange, metallic percussion, but most importantly a hell of a lot of attitude andflavorwith which they demand ownership of the present in a time that seems to be drowning in a soup of darkness. Dame Area is the radicallivedisco orchestra that you just can't miss and you'll never know if they're telling the truth or not.

RESPIRE (CA)
The do-it-yourself post-everything collective from Toronto pushes the boundaries of heavy music by weaving intricate, uplifting orchestral arrangements with the intensity of hardcore and the desperation of black metal. They have released three albums, most recently Hiraeth (2024). The title is a Welsh word for a deep longing to belong at home.

RESPIRE Coming from the promise of freedom, from the dream of modernity, they practice accepting the crisis and come with peace. They leave everything behind, their possessions, their friends and family, and their futures as they could have been. While we fight each other, the world burns, the forests die and the rich fly in private jets. The future knows no race or gender, nor salvation. In their own maximalist way, Respire still hopes that we will all take care of fragile humanity so that together we can redefine the future.

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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.