Filming Sequel Comedy Cult Heavy Metal Heavy Trip Rampung

Heavy Trip Illustration (YouTube screenshot)

JAKARTA - The shooting process for the sequel to Heavy Trip, Finland's 2018 ansambel comedy about metal band candidates has been completed.

Friday, September 15, Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, who wrote and directed the original film, shared new news on the film's Facebook page.

"Finish! The second part of the Heavy Trip has now been taken a picture of it. And it's been an incredible journey from start to finish full of strange and beautiful moments."

We have the honor of working with the best people in the industry from Lithuania, Finland and Germany. I am very grateful to everyone who has spent hours making this happen."

"I'm really waiting until the film is finished and released. #the journey is tougher".

In June 2022, Laatio told Metal Hammer magazine that Heavy Trip 2 is under construction. "We've written a very good script and we're supposed to film it this summer," he said.

"We plan to film it next year. You never know. The last film took six years, so I hope this one doesn't take long."

"Heavy Trip" debuted in 2018 on SXSW and premiered in select theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and more, alongside the VOD platform.

Guided by novice filmmakers, Heavy Trip is a satire about the metal band's efforts to get its first legitimate show.

In the film, Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is trapped in a small village in rural Finland where his biggest desire is to become the lead vocalist of the Implaed Rektum group.

The only problem is that he and his headbangers have been training for 12 years without performing once. But, it will all change when they meet the promoter of the big heavy metal music festival in Norway.

Starting a journey in a stolen van with bodies, coffins, and new drummers from a local mental hospital, Impaled Rektum traveled across Scandinavia to make his dream come true.

This land travel comedy includes musical brotherhood, grave robbery, Viking paradise, and armed conflict between Finland and Norway.

According to Juuso, who is a metal fan, Heavy Trip was originally shown massively in Finland, which is widely regarded as the world's most heavy metal country.

No one has seen it in Finnish cinemas, said Juuso, This film is marketed very badly and to the wrong audience; the film is marketed to children 15 years old but it's not a film for them. They don't know what metal reference means and they don't listen to metal music. After a failed opening, which sounds like, 'Well, that's our career. No one will work with us anymore.'"