Happy birthday, Kerry King!
Kerry King of Slayer @ 2017 Copenhell
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Happy birthday, Tom Araya!
Slayer’s Tom Araya @ 2017 Copenhell
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Happy birthday, Tom Araya!
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Metal Monday
Kerry King of Slayer @ 2017 Copenhell
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2020 Copenhell Preview
Airbourne getting airborne at 2017 Copenhell
Copenhell is the biggest metal festival in Denmark. 2020 will be Copenhell’s 11th consecutive year and third year as a four-day festival. For the first four years Copenhell was a two-day festival (2010-2013), followed by four years (2014-2017) as a three-day festival. Regular four-day tickets for 2020 sold out in January 2020, but four-day VIP (RIP) tickets remain, as do three-day tickets (Thursday through Saturday) and single day tickets for all days except Saturday. The 2020 dates are June 17-20.
This year’s bigger names include Judas Priest, Kiss, Korn, Mastodon, Opeth, Disturbed, Emperor, Iron Maiden, Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, Gojira, and Mercyful Fate. Iron Maiden and Mercyful Fate are both playing on Saturday so, not surprisingly, that day sold out quickly. Other notable acts include The Hu, Destruction, Death To All, Bad Religion, and Jinjer. In addition to Mercyful Fate, Danish bands include Denial of God, Orm, Xenoblight, D-A-D, and Bersærk. About 20 more bands will be announced in the next couple months.
Copenhell crowd during Slayer’s 2018 performance
Copenhell has had three stages for several years so a band is nearly always playing, and frequently there are two bands going at once. On Wednesday only one stage has been open. In 2019 there were five bands on Wednesday and 13 – 17 bands on the other days. In 2020 Copenhell is adding a fourth stage, and two stages will be open on Wednesday. Along with the extra stage, Copenhell is selling 3,000 more tickets than last year. Hopefully the fourth stage, even with the additional tickets, will give things a less-crowded feel.
As anyone who has been to a metal festival knows, there is much more to the experience than just music. At Copenhell there are sideshow acts (Twisted Sisters pictured above), Copenhello (band meet and greets), Smadreland (Smash Land), art galleries, and cool places to relax and enjoy a cold one. Compared to festivals in Germany and the Czech Republic, the beer is expensive. However, the selection of alcohol is excellent–especially compared to festivals in other parts of Scandinavia where the beer is not only expensive and weak (4% or so) but also limited in how many you can buy at a time. Copenhell encourages large purchases by offering a discount when six are bought.
Single-day tickets are about US$80-$150 (depending on the day) or three-day tickets can still be had for about US$250. Four-day tickets can still be cobbled together (with a three-day ticket and a Wednesday single-day ticket) for about US$330. More details here.
Update: 3-day tickets are now sold out. Thursday tickets (Kiss, Judas Priest, Opeth, etc.) are also sold out. If you don’t have a ticket and want to attend all four days, your only option (but probably not for long) is a 4-day RIP ticket.
Slayer was…
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Slayer is done. I think we’ll see Kerry King do some things going forward, but Tom is done, and I don’t blame him. He has back issues, and I know how that feels. I’m almost done thanks to a back injury.
Slayer played their final show last weekend. I was fortunate enough to see them play in the 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s. There will be no reunions in the 20s. I saw them live in three different countries. I saw them from the photo pit and from the grass, a million miles from the stage, at Shoreline in Mountain View.
I think the most memorable moment was when I saw them in 1991 in Oakland. Testament and Megadeth were the openers. Megadeth and Slayer were touring on their finest albums IMO. This was in January, just prior to the Gulf War. Pre-9/11 security at shows was not very intense. At this show fans had brought in a wide variety of fireworks (for an indoor concert!). During the first song a number of bottle rockets and roman candles went off. With all of the “shock and awe” fireworks Tom jokingly said something like, “Hey, the war isn’t supposed to start until Wednesday!” based on something George Bush had said a few days prior. Sure enough the war in Iraq did start on the following Wednesday although the pit for Slayer (just a few days before the actual war) seemed to indicate otherwise.
