This year’s COPENHELL Metal Cruise takes place on October 24-26, 2025. AFSKY, CASTLE RAT, LLNN, GUTTURAL DISGORGE, HÅNDGEMENG and OPENHELL are ready for the dark voyage – more bands will be added.
The eighth COPENHELL Metal Cruise takes place in familiar surroundings on the newly renovated ship Nordic Crown with a new owner behind the wheel. As per tradition, the voyage will be full of top-tier entertainment and lots of great COPENHELL atmosphere.
Get your COPENHELL Metal Cruise 2025 tickets here!
LOK
The Gothenburg band LOK played their high-speed hardcore on big stages all over the Nordics until the band’s breakup in 2002. After the group’s revival in 2019 in connection with the 20th anniversary of their debut album, they have been thundering ahead with electrifying live shows in one long and powerful comeback. We can look forward to experiencing the sound of frustration and anger with hard-hitting Swedish lyrics when the band shows us why they are considered one of the very best hardcore bands from across the strait.
SIAMESE
SIAMESE plays melodic metal that balances heavy and beautiful audio, and with a strong global reach the band has firmly established itself as one of Denmark’s strongest export names in modern metal. Their music is a captivating fusion of grand hooks, electronic elements and thunderous riffs – and their live performances are known for being emotional and intense. This band proves that metal can be both brutal and beautiful, sensitive and explosive – and make the audience sing along from the very first chorus.
AFSKY
With roots planted deeply in the ’90s black metal traditon and branches stretching towards both folk music and dark poetry, AFSKY delivers a beautiful fusion of brutality of melancholy. Their music is both atmospheric and merciless. Screams, spoken word and melodic depths are mixed in powerful laments – a scream from the inner abyss – that resonate far beyond the genre’s borders.
CASTLE RAT
The Brooklyn band CASTLE RAT plays doom metal that is steeped in fantasy atmosphere. Riley Pinkerton, The Rat Queen, has ventured forth to expand and defend their realm against their archnemesis, The Rat Reaperess – and she does so together with The Count, The Plague Doctor and The Druid. Excellent music for all fans of both classic fantasy and metal, from Frazetta to Sabbath!
LLNN
This growth on Copenhagen’s dark heart is not just a band – it is a sonic cataclysm! LLNN’s sound combines apocalyptic sludge, dense sci-fi landscapes and cinematic industrial chaos in music that feels less like a concert and more like the world collapsing in slowmotion around us. Think crumbling cities, cosmic horror and existential anxiety combined with seismic drums, icy-cold riffs and synth walls that sound like the screams from dying stars.
INHUMAN NATURE
The British band INHUMAN NATURE has been wreaking havoc for half a decade with their wild crossover melting pot of hardcore, crust, death metal and doom. It is one of the most explosive acts to emerge from the British underground in recent years, delivering crushing riffs, blistering solos and an attitude channelig both Slayer and Motörhead. Their music is a pure doomsday soundtrack that leaves a taste of blood in your mouth: there’s no doubt that the world is ending – but it might just as well sound damn good while it happens!
GUTTURAL DISGORGE
The new teenage quintet GUTTURAL DISGORGE plays brutal slam death metal and ever since the beginning in 2023, they have aimed directly at assuming a prominent position on Denmark’s extreme metal scene. They blew the audience away at this January’s COPENHELL Freezes Over – and we just hope that the Oslo boat’s hull will be able to withstand the punishment in October!
HÅNDGEMENG
HÅNDGEMENG is a group of five cursed guys who have been banished from the depths of hell, reek of sulphur and cheap beer – and who play to entertain the devil himself! You can look forward to their energetic, riff-heavy and hardcore-stained doom’n’roll, which is both heavy, psychedelic and diabolically atmospheric.
SPEEDSLUT
The echoes are still rumbling in the Aalborg underground after the quartet SPEEDSLUT burst onto the scene, propelled by fierce speed metal frenzy. The band’s rebellious music is a lightning bolt of velocity and power, with electrifying riffs and thunderous drums, and their live shows send cascades of adrenaline rushing through your veins. It’s the sound of a black night on the highway with a broken speedometer and the brakes shot to hell. Strap on your helmet – this is going to be a fast and furious one!
OPENHELL
Every year, OPENHELL is a staple act in i COPENHELL’s Biergarten tent, which is both famous and infamous for its legendary wild parties. This band also hits the Oslo boat like a storm every year with their phenomenal live metal karaoke that gives people in the audience the chance to live their rockstar dreams!
Single Sailor
Cabin + Event – 1425 DKK for 1 person
Standard Package
Cabin + Event – 1340 DKK per person for 2 persons
Hells Delight
Cabin + Event + Buffet on Saturday morning + Evening buffet on both days incl. 1 drink – 1905 DKK for 2 persons
All in Hell
Cabin + Event + Buffet on Saturday morning + Evening buffet on both days incl. 1 drink + Free bar – 3305 DKK for 2 persons
(Please note: Free bar costs 1400 DKK upon purchase before the event and 1550 DKK if you buy on board the ship)