A Colossal Weekend completes this year’s line-up with sixteen new artists and two additional stages

The Copenhagen, Denmark based festival A COLOSSAL WEEKEND aims at curating the best within the sombre and experimental part of rock music. This year’s edition will take place on May 19th-21st at VEGA and the Vesterbro city area, and now the arrangers complete the 2022 program by presenting sixteen new artists and two additional stages.

The newly added artists illustrates the post-genre’s and thereby A COLOSSAL WEEKEND’s musical diversity by spanning from A Burial At Sea’s heavy progging post rock to Aidan Bakers vivid drone soundscapes, post hardcore with Kollapse and Tvivler as well as sludge, stoner and post metal with names such as Dying Hydra, Kadavermarch and Late Night Venture. The newly added names join an extensive line-up with headliners such as YOB (US), Russian Circles (US) Møl (DK) and Oranssi Pazuzu (FI).

The new additions are:

• A Burial At Sea (IE)
• Aidan Baker We Like We (CA/DK)
• BRUIT (FR)
• CTL DRP (UK)
• Dying Hydra (DK)
• Kadavermarch (DK)
• Kokomo (DK)
• Kollapse (DK)
• Late Night Venture (DK)
• Meejah (DK)
• Mouth Wound (DK)
• O Machine (DK)
• Shy, Low (US)
• Stiu Nu Stiu (SE)
• Tvivler (DK)
• Walfang (BE)

The complete program is:

A Burial At Sea (IE), Aidan Baker w/ Nadja (CA), Aidan Baker We Like We (CA/DK), Aiming For Enrike (NO), Astodan (BE), BRUIT (FR), Conjurer (UK), CTL DRP (UK), DEAFKIDS (BRA), Dying Hydra (DK), El Ten Eleven (US), Helms Alee (US), Intechnicolour (UK), Kadavermarch (DK), Kokomo (DK), Kollapse (DK), Late Night Venture (DK), Meejah (DK), Moloken (SE), Mouth Wound (DK), Møl (DK), neànder (DE), O Machine (DK), Oranssi Pazuzu (FI), pg.lost (SE), Psychonaut (BE), Ranges (US), Russian Circles (US), Saver (NO), Shy, Low (US), Spirit Adrift (US), Stiu Nu Stiu (SE), Sturle Dagsland (NO), This Gift is A Curse (SE), Tvivler (DK), Vi Som Älskade Varandra Så Mycket (SE), We Stood Like Kings (BE), Yob (US)

With the most extensive line-up in the life span of A COLOSSAL WEEKEND, expansions also include new locations and stages where the music can be experienced. Both the venues Basement and Raahuset will be a supplement to the two VEGA stages, so A COLOSSAL WEEKEND will be omni-pressent in the Vesterbro City Area. With the two new stages, it is now possible to get acquainted with even more exciting acts during the weekend and furthermore, outdoor areas for pre- and post-show hangouts will be established alongside night performances and afterparties. The festival time schedule and venue plan will be announced in near future.

Weekend-tickets cost 600 kr fee, and there are now few weekend tickets left.

One-Day-tickets are on sale for 280 DKK fee per day.

Tickets are available HERE.

About A Colossal Weekend:

A Colossal Weekend 2022 takes place at and around VEGA in the heart of Copenhagen from May 19-22, 2022 and this year will be the 6th edition. Earlier editions have counted acts such as Cult of Luna, Pelican, Deafheaven, Anna Von Hausswolff, Alcest and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The concept of the festival is quite simple; to be a facilitated gathering place for music nerds, metalheads and curious souls with a soft spot for dark, experimental and atmospheric music.

A Colossal Weekend is a collaboration between well renowned venue VEGA in Copenhagen and the booking agency Colossal as they both discovered a common goal and ambition in presenting visionary acts of high quality within genres that many might not be too familiar with. Genres such as post-rock, post-metal, math, doom, sludge and black metal are solid ingredients in the program, however detours throughout other genres such jazz, techno and neo classical can also be expected.

The lineup is built up around a handful of well-known acts who represents specific tendencies and sounds within their domain, accompanied by a substantial amount of strictly curated underground acts, who altogether underlines, challenges and explores the infinite borderlands of alternative gloomy music. This year, A Colossal Weekend takes place over three days on May 19th-21st 2022 with a lineup of 40 acts at 4 different stages.

A Colossal Weekend is presented by GAFFA and Visions Magazine and realized with funding and support from Statens Kunstfond, Vesterbro Lokaludvalg, Liveurope, DIT:KBH and Tuborg.