We’re counting down to the 2024 edition of 70000 tons of Metal! This is by far one of our personal favorite metal cruises where every artist is a headliner. Metalheads from around the globe share an insane experience of four days with very little to no sleep of nonstop metal shows. From big pool deck experiences to the intimate Star Lounge, there’s something for all metalheads regardless of subgenre, and we love it all. 2023 marked a significant return for the cruise after all cruises generally faced a halt due to the pandemic. The event’s future was uncertain, but it returned, giving sixty unique artists a go. This year we saw a number of acts having their first experience on the boat to artists having some notable silver-to-gold member status returns. We managed to capture all sixty bands, and as we countdown to the 2024 edition, we will share artist spotlights from the 2023 expedition leading up to the 2024 voyage. Artist Number 13: Deathless Legacy.
Italian horror metal outfit Deathless Legacy embarked on the 70000tons voyage for the first time, where, hopefully, fans greeted them with Fosters throughout the festivities. Their first show was held at the intimate Star Lounge at 3:15 PM on the longest day, Day 2, January 31st, and they made it to their second set nearly twenty-four hours later at 4:30 AM on February 1st at the Star Lounge. Metal Insider was lucky to have viewed their second set. Unfamiliar with their live setting, seeing metal mixed with horror theatrics while running without sleep would wake anyone up. Looking like live vampires, demonic characters, and more, the show was musically and visually filled with entertainment. Their presence mixes the likes of In This Moment, Avatar, Ice Nine Kills, and New Years Day, but different. Plenty of props and characters walk on the stage, where anything goes. Hopefully, the group will make a trek out to the States soon.
Deathless Legacy has been busy since touring Europe, including opening for fellow Italian metallers Lacuna Coil in late September. The band has recently shared a live video for “Ora Pro Nobis.” The track was initially taken from their latest offering, 2022’s Mater Larverum. We’re looking forward to seeing what the group has planned for 2024.
Deathless Legacy
70000 tons of Metal will return on January 29th, setting sail from Miami, FL to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, and back on February 2nd with another batch promising sixty bands to perform twice throughout the waves of adventure. The announcements have been moving fast this year as tickets have already gone on sale, and, well no updates since our last post but, in case you missed it, 37 bands out of 60 have been revealed thus far:
2024 70000tons of Metal artists:
Aborted
Angra
Blind Guardian
Blood Red Throne
Crypta
Dalriada
Depressive Age
Draconian
Dynazty
Epica
Equilibrium
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Grave Digger
Heidevolk
Infected Rain
Iotunn
Kataklysm
Legion of the Damned
Lord of the Lost
Marduk
My Dying Bride
Mystic Prophecy
Nanowar of Steel
Nervosa
Nile
Omnium Gatherum
Saor
Scar Symmetry
Serenity
Sodom
The Halo Effect
Thyrfing
Tygers of Pan Tang
Unleashed
Victory
Warkings
Wind Rose
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