[HEAVY TRIP is currently available for rent or purchase on DVD, Blu Ray, and digital formats. Note - dialogue is in Finnish, Norwegian, and some English with subtitles, so if that's an issue for you consider yourself warned.]
Despite their brutal music and intimidating appearance, the
twenty-something metalheads who will eventually adopt the collective moniker Impaled
Rektum are an affable, and to a large degree, nerdy, bunch. They’ve been
playing together for 12 years as HEAVY TRIP opens, and after a particularly good
practice the band’s devil-may-care drummer Jynkky (Antti Heikkinen) suggests
they finally take the plunge and book a show.
But the band’s most serious member, bass player Pasi (Max
Ovaska), quickly puts the kibosh on that idea. He says they can’t play out
until they write some songs of their own. Lead vocalist Turo (Johannes
Holopainen) is more than happy to back Pasi up, but the real reason he doesn’t
want to go on stage has more to do with his shyness than a lack of original material. And since guitar player
Lotvonen (Samuli Jaskio) can’t come up with any riffs that haven’t already been
used by other bands, it would seem the group won’t be leaving their basement
rehearsal space anytime soon.
