70000tons of Metal 2025 Artist Spotlight: Suffocation

Countdown to 2026: 21 Days

SOOOOOOON, a word 70000tons of Metal cruisers know all too well, love it or hate it. 70000tons of Metal, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, returns for its 2026 edition from January 29 – February 2, 2026, setting sail from Miami, Florida to Nassau, The Bahamas aboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas. For booking and full details are available on the official website. Read our essential packing guide here. Check out the testimonials from several 2025 artists at this location.

70000tons 2025 Round 13: ARTIST 45 of 61 Suffocation

Stats

2025 Voyage:

Dates: January 30 – February 3, 2025
Destination: Miami to Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Ship: Independence of the Seas

Artist Spotlight

Band: Suffocation
Number of 70000tons Appearances: 4 (2012, 2017, 2020, 2025)
Set 1: January 31, 2025 – Royal Theater – 1:30 am
Set 2: February 2, 2025 – Pool Deck – 2:45 pm
Attended: Set 1 – Yes, Set 2 – Yes
Country: Long Island, New York
Genre: Death Metal
Latest Album: Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023)
Standout Moment(s):
Suffocation, one of the finest and most brutal bands to emerge from Long Island, New York, made their fourth overall appearance on the metal seas, and there’s a clear reason they keep coming back. They’re brutal, explosive, and undeniable legends. With Ricky Myers stepping in on vocals following Frank Mullen’s retirement in 2018, the band remains as ferocious as ever. No matter how many times you see them, it never feels like enough. We caught both sets: the first inside the Royal Theater, drenched in near–pitch-black, deep red lighting, and the second outdoors on the pool deck in the middle of the afternoon. A true yin-and-yang contrast in setting, yet it ultimately didn’t matter; Suffocation delivered with the same intensity and force both times, and it was fantastic.

Suffocation– Set 1

Suffocation– Set 2

Latest Suffocation News

Suffocation struck up a friendship with Cradle of Filth in 2025 while supporting their European tour, and that connection is carrying over into 2026. The band will once again join the UK extreme metal legends as support on their North American tour, kicking off this spring.

What is the Artist Spotlight?

Well, it’s more than a review of their performance; as 70000tons goes, each band is a headliner, and we treat each one as such, giving them their own spread, discussing who they are and what they’ve been up to since the cruise. Each spotlight coincides with any updates from 70000tons organizers (if any), leading to days before setting sail. An extensive coverage like no other.

70000tons 2026 Lineup 53 out of 60:

Ad Infinitum
Amorphis
Anthrax
Arkona
Beast in Black
Bloodred Hourglass
Cemetery Skyline
Darkane
Dark Tranquillity
Dødheimsgard
Dragonland
Dust Bolt
Eluveitie
Ereb Altor
Firewind
Gama Bomb
Groza
Haggard
Harakiri For The Sky
Heathen
Hiraes
Hirax
Hour of Penance
Ignea
Illdisposed
Illumishade
In Mourning
Insomnium
Izegrim
Jag Panzer
Kamelot
Kanonenfieber
Orden Ogan
Paradise Lost
Persefone
Rhapsody of Fire
Royal Hunt
Satan
Saturnus
Seven Spires
Skeletal Remains
Skyclad
Soen
Soilwork
Suidakra
Tribulation
Tyr
Vader
VBO
Vio-lence
Wind Rose
Wolf
Xandria