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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.

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.

Watch it loud. Watch it with friends. And for the love of all that is heavy, don’t skip the credits. watch heavy trip

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.

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. If you haven’t yet taken this trip, you’re

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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.