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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 approx. 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 been taking place since 2016 and has featured names like 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 8-10 May in VEGA and Basement at Vesterbro in Copenhagen. Part-out tickets are on sale now, while the final program is announced and single-day tickets go on sale in early 2025.

The first names on the poster Saturday are:

KELLERMENSCH (DK)

KELLERMENSCH from Esbjerg has, since the debut album in 2008, distinguished itself as one of the most significant local alternative rock bands with the unique, charismatic singer and songwriter Sebastian Wolff at the front. On record, the band's songwriting and tone-heavy but delicate interplay shines, and live they are no less among the country's best and most celebrated.

GOOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (IS)

Their new masterpiece of an album Embers (2024) is out, and of course the astronauts have 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 up with instruments such as sitar, cello and frame drums.

PALLBEARER (US)

The American doom rockers PALLET BEARERS is one of the genre's innovators, who has both respect for tradition and a challenging sense of adventure. On the latest album Mind Burns Alive from this year they show themselves as masters of melancholy - a feeling that they manage to communicate in the finest way in a concert context.

JO QUAIL (UK)

Yes Quail masters his instrument and combines it with innovative looping techniques to create his complex and evocative music. From her performance we can expect world-class virtuosity, musical vision and courage beyond imagination.

BOSCO SACRO (IT)

Italian BOSCO SACRO delivers dreamy ambient doomgaze and has already attracted quite a bit of interest and attention.

DAUFØDT (NO)

DAUFØDT is one of the most exciting bands from the vibrant Norwegian punk scene, and the band delivers completely wild and high-energy concerts, which the Danish audience got to feel at Roskilde Festival in 2022. We get the pleasure of that at A Colossal Weekend, where they play a concert with the main focus on the material from the 2024 album Glitter.

ZOLA JESUS (US)

There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer who since 2009 has released music as Zola Jesus , wields a voice that does that.

GRAVA (UK)
GRAVA plays crushingly heavy and atmospheric sludge metal. The sound is a mix of abysmal guitar riffs, pulsating bass lines and doom drums that collide with two filthy vocals. The Faroese/Danish trio from Copenhagen started in 2020 and presented their ultra-heavy debut album, Weight of a God, in 2022. The album's songs revolve around man's encounter with death, seen through the eyes of the dying; a theme that envelops GRAVA's aggressive sludge metal in a gloomy and haunting atmosphere.

LASER NUN (DK)
The improvised noise duo LASER NUN, consisting of Lars Bech Pilgaard (Svin) and Anders Vestergaard (Girls In Airports), performs the work ‘Under Folkets Hus’. ‘Under Folket Hus’ is a new multi-channel work composed specifically for Basement in Copenhagen by Laser Nun and commissioned by VEGA for premiere during the festival A Colossal Weekend 2025. The piece is written for guitar, percussion, computer and feedback in a multi-channel setup consisting of 8 guitar and bass amplifiers placed around the room. The duration of the piece is approximately 60 minutes.

DAME AREA (ES)
Hailing from Barcelona, Dame Area has left audiences speechless and breathless all around Europe and America playing around 300 shows and generating a consensus: they are one of the best live acts of the moment.

Their sense of dynamics sets them apart from any band from the industrial scene, as they have more in common with the experimental rock of Sonic Youth than any electronic project, while the structures hint at the avant-garde innovations of Coil. They are an eclectic, discerning form of contemporary industrial music, deploying compulsive minimal synth and primal polyrhythms, as well as uniquely reconstrued elements of post-punk & EBM. An artistic identity that embraces influence yet eschews compromise, changing flavors, but not essence, from release to release.

RESPIRE (CA)
Toronto DIY post-everything collective Respire has been a pioneering force in the Canadian underground scene for ten years, building a cult-like following over three critically acclaimed LPs and four international tours. The seven-piece pushes the boundaries of heavy music, intertwining intricate, uplifting orchestral arrangements with the intensity and urgency of emotional hardcore and the desperation of black metal.

Their latest record, Hiraeth, is a testament to the collective’s ambition, genre-defying style, and maximalist approach. The album is a tribute to those who have uprooted their lives in search of hope and a cautionary tale to those who remain falsely secure in their illusory societal positions. It is a manifesto of the immigrant experience; a call for all of us to embrace our shared humanity, awaken to the fragility of our existence, and confront the crises we face collectively before it's too late.

More names for the poster will be announced on an ongoing basis, and the final program is expected to be announced at the beginning of 2025. The final program will offer 9-10 acts every day spread over 3 stages.