Today, COPENHELL adds the last two headliners to the 2025 line-up – BILLY IDOL and DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY By Request! They are joined by KREATOR, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, SKUNK ANANSIE, DETHKLOK, BLOOD INCANTATION, THE SANDMEN, VOLA, THE SWORD, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, SLOMOSA, DIRTY HONEY, DEAD POET SOCIETY, THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND, SARCATOR and SKARNET.

COPENHELL adds 16 exciting bands from all across the hard and heavy music spectrum to the 2025 festival that will hit Copenhagen on June 18-21. Everything from raging metal beasts and international rock legends to interesting genre surprises and unknown grass root sensations dug up from the darkest soil will give the audience some of this year’s greatest music experiences.

BILLY IDOL – Friday’s headliner – is one of the greatest punk rock icons alive and through the decades, he has left an indelible mark on the music history. He was not just a part of the ’80s rock revolution with his fiery attitude, his platinum blonde hair and immense audience popularity – has was one of the artists defining it. His energetic and timeless combination of punk and arena rock has delighted generations of music fans, and he has a string of huge classics in his song catalogue. With him, COPENHELL introduces an artist that speaks to all rock fans, whether they have been along since the good old MTV days or just jumped on the train, and we look forward to welcoming the yelling rebel to the festival for the first time ever.

Festival director Jeppe Nissen says: ”Only very few artists reach icon status – Billy Idol has by being a hundred percent himself and truly uncompromising as an artist. He is a great rock legend, and he never played at our festival before. He has not visited Denmark in 10 years, and the COPENHELL 2025 concert is his only summer concert in the Nordics – it will be truly special!”

Danish rockers DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY will make a COPENHELL return as Wednesday’s headliner – this time with a concert in the popular ‘By Request’ format, where the audience votes for the setlist. COPENHELL’s audience welcomed the band warmly in 2022, which according to lead singer Tim Christensen is due to a combination of many of the festival guests having grown up with their songs and the band’s melodic and energetic (and sometimes heavy) rock being a good match for a festival like COPENHELL:

”Danish radio had much more room for guitar-based music in the ’90s, where we got our breakthrough. For the same reason – and against our expectations – we quickly became mainstream, although we basically made something that belonged in a harder genre. It is still like that, and much of the music in COPENHELL’s line-up is music that we listen to ourselves as well. We love being at COPENHELL, where we feel completely at home among friends and family, so we are very grateful to be invited again.”

Personally, Tim Christensen hopes that the By Request format will give the Danish rock trio some interesting challenges this summer:

”We have to wait and see what happens! I have a good guess at which songs people will vote for, but I also hope that they will vote for some that surprise us so assembling the setlist will be even more interesting. COPENHELL is a very genre-conscious festival so perhaps this will make people choose not only the most obvious songs, but also some of the lesser known ones.”

COPENHELL will open the vote for DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY’s setlist during March.

 

PLEASE NOTE: SUN DONT SHINE has been removed from the COPENHELL 2025 line-up due to a tour cancellation.

Tickets for COPENHELL 2025 are available at www.copenhell.dk/tickets. You can read more about the festival and all of the bands on the website or in the official COPENHELL festival app.

The announced 75 bands at COPENHELL 2025:

SLIPKNOT – THE PRODIGY – BILLY IDOL – DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY By Request – THE CULT – KREATOR – DREAM THEATER – KING DIAMOND – BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE – SKUNK ANANSIE – IN FLAMES – POWERWOLF – LORNA SHORE – SKILLET – DETHKLOK – HARDY – BLOOD INCANTATION – MYRKUR – THE SANDMEN – MYLES KENNEDY – HEAVEN SHALL BURN – VOLA – CATTLE DECAPITATION – CARCASS – THE SWORD – POPPY – CABAL – KITTIE – EXODUS – SODOM – FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY – ABBATH – MNEMIC – ALIEN ANT FARM – GLORYHAMMER – KIM DRACULA – SYLOSIS – SLOMOSA – DIRTY HONEY – NESTOR – ANAAL NATHRAKH – DEAD POET SOCIETY – WALLS OF JERICHO – EYES X SYL – JULIE CHRISTMAS – GÅTE – WILL HAVEN – STRYCHNOS – LAST TRAIN – RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR – SWARTZHEIM – HEALTH – TROLD – GABESTOK – BATTLESNAKE – WIEGEDOOD – WORMROT – CASTLE RAT – GUILT TRIP – THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND – ASHES OF BILLY – CONAN – FLESHWATER – GORILLA ANGREB – BRAT – SARCATOR – TETRARCH – THROWE – BASTARDANE – YOSEMITE IN BLACK – HEAVE BLOOD & DIE – THUS – TERRORPY – SKARNET – SYRACUSÆ