8 UNDERGROUND BANDS VISIT THE BONEYARD STAGE

8 UNDERGROUND BANDS VISIT THE BONEYARD STAGE AT COPENHELL 2026

Look forward to experiencing BRAINDEAD, GOING FOR THE ONE, MITE, PERMANOIA, PRESIDENT FETCH, THE ROTTEN LEPRECHAUNS, S.T.A.B. and SLYTTER this summer!

While the music plays on COPENHELL’s four large music stages, there will also be action in the festival’s Boneyard area, where smaller bands from the dark Danish underground get the chance to impress festival guests in a more intimate setting – from a container directly into the audience’s heads!

This year, we have found eight bands – BRAINDEAD, GOING FOR THE ONE, MITE, PERMANOIA, PRESIDENT FETCH, THE ROTTEN LEPRECHAUNS, S.T.A.B. and SLYTTER – who represent the forward-thinking, raw and unpolished part of COPENHELL’s music program.

Stop by the Boneyard area at the corner of Dokken near the Helvíti stage during the afternoon for smaller concerts in a more chaotic setting that will surely give you some of the festival’s biggest surprises! Performance times will be announced leading up to the festival.

BRAINDEAD
BRAINDEAD is Denmark’s first all-female old-school death metal band, dug up from Copenhagen’s cemeteries and is ready to infect COPENHELL with a cruel dose of metal. Two of the band members attended COPENHELL Rock Academy and a friendship was formed that resulted in the band’s creation. They are inspired by bands from the early 90s, including Mythic, Massacre, Autopsy, Cancer, Baphomet, Deicide and Death, which have defined the band’s old-school tone.

GOING FOR THE ONE
GOING FOR THE ONE is a Copenhagen power trio that delivers melodic pop rock with an edge! With heavy, pumping beats, multi-part harmonies and smooth, soaring guitar riffs, the band has created a sound that is both catchy, beautiful and badass. 90s nostalgia meets the present. This is pop rock at its most potent!

MITE
MITE plays hardcore – it’s short, it’s hard, and it’s violent, when everything is floating around in a borderland between redemption and total chaos. The live show is explosive, and it only gets more explosive the more people from the audience participate in it, right inside the pit and up on stage!

PERMANOIA
PERMANOIA is an alternative rock band from Aarhus, who weave inspirations from metal, shoegaze and progressive genres into their dynamic songwriting. The band has quickly gained a reputation for delivering an energetic and emotional live show, and their short live career has so far included concerts in the Danish underground with concepts such as Death to Aarhus, HxC Kids and Copenhagen Metal Fest, as well as opening for Danish rock legends Magtens Korridorer and D-A-D.

PRESIDENT FETCH
PRESIDENT FETCH is one of Denmark’s most resilient and energetic punk bands – a name that has defined and challenged the Copenhagen underground scene for decades, and is known for its uncompromising sound and intense live performances for 40 years. It’s punk, it’s rock, it’s heavy – and it’s damn catchy in the most primal and primal way.

THE ROTTEN LEPRECHAUNS
THE ROTTEN LEPRECHAUNS is back after 15 years in the deep, silent darkness of the grave – ready to hammer some damn horror-punk straight into your disgusting face! The rot never rests: Like an inflamed arm, the drums pulse with concussive rhythms, the basslines scream and grind like a foaming zombie horde, while the guitar riffs shred like a rusty chainsaw – surpassed only by the lead singer’s unholy howl.

S.T.A.B.
K-town’s crustcore crew delivers D-beat and old-school silliness when they take the stage. In just two and a half years, the band has established itself as one of the absolute strongest new acts from the Copenhagen underground and has left a number of venues in smoking ruins with their hardcore-oriented crust punk. Attendance is mandatory for anyone who enjoys the uglier side of punk with deafening Swedish fences, blistering D-beat rhythms and verbal Weltschmerz delivered with tobacco-colored spit and white knuckles.

SLYTTER
SLYTTER from Aarhus is inspired by bands like Flipper, No Tren and the mid-eighties’ Black Flag, but the vocals give the music a very special naive touch. The band’s expression is provocative and vulnerable at the same time, when the repetitive and catchy music grinds out from there.