By [Staff Writer]
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.
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.
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.