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In the frostbitten, forest-choked heart of northern Finland, a band of long-haired, middle-aged dreamers spends twelve years perfecting a single, brutal song. They have never played a real show. They have never had a fan outside their small town. They are Impaled Rektum , and their story—told in the 2018 film Heavy Trip (original Finnish title: Hevi Reissu )—is one of the most surprisingly heartfelt, laugh-out-loud funny, and genuinely heavy movies ever committed to celluloid.

A sequel, Heavy Trip 2 (2024), has since been released, following the band as they try to escape a Russian military base after a gig gone wrong. Early reviews suggest it captures the same chaotic energy. watch heavy trip

But nothing beats the original. Heavy Trip is a film about how it’s never too late to be who you were always meant to be—even if who you were meant to be is a growling, corpse-painted death metal maniac with a stolen van and a dead body in the back.

★★★★½ (5/5 on the Metal Scale) “Heavy Trip is the feel-good film of the year about stealing a corpse, crossing international borders illegally, and screaming about blood. You will laugh. You will cry. You will bang your head.” — Metal Injection Have you seen Heavy Trip

If you haven’t yet taken this trip, you’re in for a wild, corpse-painted ride. This feature covers everything you need to know: the plot, the characters, the humor, the music, and why Heavy Trip has become essential viewing for metalheads and non-metalheads alike. Directed by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren , Heavy Trip follows Turo (Johannes Holopainen), the shy, deeply committed vocalist of a Finnish death metal band called Impaled Rektum. The band practices religiously in a reinforced underground bunker, but they’ve never performed live due to a crippling combination of stage fright, social awkwardness, and sheer bad luck.

Their big break arrives when a Norwegian metal festival promoter accidentally hears their demo. The catch? He thinks they’re a “symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal” band from Norway, and he wants them to headline. The only problem: the band lives in a tiny Finnish village, has no passports, no van, and a drummer who just escaped from a mental institution. 🤘 In the frostbitten, forest-choked heart of northern

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