70,000 Tons Of Metal will sail on January 30th, 2025 on their 14th voyage across the Caribbean, blaring metal over the seas and featuring around 60 bands and metalheads from all over the world. To whet your appetite and remind you of the awesomeness that happens aboard the world’s biggest heavy metal cruise, they have come up with their own official theme song and music video.
The music is orchestrated by Trey Xavier – whom you might know as Gear Gods mastermind and also the guy who explained how to create a Metallica song– with Bruno Valderve (Angra, Whom Gods Destroy) manning the drums, and his Angra bandmate Rafael Bittencourt in charge of the song’s guitar solo.
Lots of talents take turns at the mic to make the 2 and half minutes track a total earworm: Francesco Cavalieri (Wind Rose), Nils Molin (Dynazty/Amaranthe), Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian), Meek Guaitoli (Temperance/Visions of Atlantis), Kristin Starkey (Temperance/Twilight Force), Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity/The Halo Effect), Lena Scissorhands (Infected Rain), Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry) and Ivan Giannini (Vision Divine), plus Trey Xavier himself.
Tickets are available now and you better don’t sleep on them! 2025's 70000 Tons Of Metal features everyone from Sepultura performing their farewell at sea, to Emperor ripping out some classics, and more:
- Arcturus
- Benighted (playing the Carnivore Sublime album and a Best Of set)
- Beyond Creation
- Candlemass (celebrating 40 Years Of Doom)
- Crownshift
- Decapitated (playing the Nihility and Cancer Culture albums)
- Delain
- Emperor (featuring songs from In the Nightside Eclipse and Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk)
- Flotsam & Jetsam (featuring songs from Doomsday for the Deceiver and No Place for Disgrace)
- Hammerfall
- In Extremo (playing two Best Of Sets as part of their 30th Anniversary Celebration)
- Kalmah (playing the They Will Return and Swampsong albums)
- Majestica
- Mork
- Samael (playing the Ceremony of Opposites and Passage albums)
- Septicflesh
- Sepultura (official FAREWELL AT SEA SHOWS)
- Sonata Arctica
- Stratovarius (playing the Visions album and a Best Of set)
- Subway To Sally (playing the Nord Nord Ost album and an exclusive Party Best Of set)
- Tankard
- The Kovenant (playing the Nexus Polaris album and a Best Of set)
- Unleash The Archers