{"id":21623,"date":"2020-02-01T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=21623"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:18:09","slug":"2020-copenhell-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/2020-copenhell-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Copenhell Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21626\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/176_6006-RAW-copenhell-airbourne.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21626\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/176_6006-RAW-copenhell-airbourne-1024x716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/176_6006-RAW-copenhell-airbourne-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/176_6006-RAW-copenhell-airbourne-250x175.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/176_6006-RAW-copenhell-airbourne-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airbourne getting airborne at 2017 Copenhell<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/copenhell\/>Copenhell<\/a> is the biggest metal festival in Denmark. 2020 will be Copenhell&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;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 Bers\u00e6rk. About 20 more bands will be announced in the next couple months.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/176_7246-RAW-slayer-crowd-copenhell.jpg><img src=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/176_7246-RAW-slayer-crowd-copenhell.jpg width=1024><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copenhell crowd during Slayer&#8217;s 2018 performance<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/44108811412\/in\/photolist-2acKbUu\" title=\"Twisted Sisters Sideshow&#x27;s Sara Skrajna @ 2018 Copenhell\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1857\/44108811412_2405cd3457_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" alt=\"Twisted Sisters Sideshow&#x27;s Sara Skrajna @ 2018 Copenhell\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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), <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/happy-birthday-chris-turner\/>Copenhello (band meet and greets)<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/metal-monday-51\/>Smadreland (Smash Land)<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/metal-monday-84\/>art galleries<\/a>, and <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/metal-monday-80\/>cool places to relax and enjoy a cold one<\/a>. Compared to festivals in Germany and the Czech Republic, the beer is expensive. However, the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/washington-wine-in-denmark\/>selection of alcohol<\/a> is excellent&#8211;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. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/al_case\/48964944691\" title=\"The Marble Church, Kreator, and The Wolf in a Place of Worship (Copenhell)\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48964944691_a802108eee_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" alt=\"The Marble Church, Kreator, and The Wolf in a Place of Worship (Copenhell)\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copenhell.dk\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/36653381082\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Copenhell\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4340\/36653381082_e5c6be596c_h.jpg\" width=\"1024\" alt=\"Copenhell\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Update: 3-day tickets are now sold out. Thursday tickets (Kiss, Judas Priest, Opeth, etc.) are also sold out. If you don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhell is the biggest metal festival in Denmark. 2020 will be Copenhell&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[541,749,590,818,344,539,185,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21623"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29381,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623\/revisions\/29381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}