The wait is almost over for Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon. The long-awaited sequel to Jason Lei Howden’s 2015 heavy metal horror favorite Deathgasm finally has release dates, with Raven Banner Releasing planning a one-night theatrical event in September followed by a digital release in October.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon will screen in select Alamo Drafthouse theatres across the United States on September 29 as part of the Fantastic Fest Presents program. The movie will then be available to rent or purchase digitally in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. beginning October 13.
Tickets and showtimes for the September 29 theatrical event will be available through the movie’s official website, with screenings currently planned for more than a dozen U.S. markets, including Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Omaha, Raleigh, and the Twin Cities. Additional cities could be announced.
A physical media release will follow later in October, with Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon coming to Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD in both a Standard Edition and a Limited Edition Steelbook. The exact street date for those releases has not yet been announced.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Years after thwarting a demon apocalypse, Brodie finds himself unemployed, single and without ambition. But when he learns that ‘NoizeQuest’, a battle-of-the-bands competition is coming to his town, he decides to reform his heavy metal band DEATHGASM in order to find redemption and, most importantly, get his ex-girlfriend Medina back. Only problem, his drummer Giles is missing an arm, and the rest of his band is, well… dead. Thankfully Brodie still has the pages of The Black Hymn, so raising his bandmates from beyond the grave is as easy as playing a little tune…
That setup brings Deathgasm back to the combination of heavy metal, black magic, comedy, and extreme gore that made the original such a cult favorite.
Milo Cawthorne returns as Brodie, with Kimberley Crossman back as Medina. James Blake, Sam Berkley, and Daniel Cresswell also return from the original movie.
The sequel’s new cast members include Kieran Charnock, Harrison Keefe, Maggie Robertson, and WWE star Adam Scherr, better known to wrestling fans as Braun Strowman.
Jason Lei Howden returns to write and direct after making his feature debut with the original Deathgasm. He subsequently directed the 2019 action comedy Guns Akimbo, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving.
Nick Garrett, Antonio Hrynchuk, and Andrew Thomas Hunt are producing. The movie’s original score was composed by Trivium frontman Matt Heafy, while the soundtrack features metal acts including Skinless, Havok, Chestcrush, Bulletbelt, Anvil and GWAR.
Fans have been waiting a long time for Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon. Howden announced plans for a sequel a decade ago, and the project eventually made its world premiere in competition at Fantastic Fest in 2025. Since then, the movie has traveled through the festival circuit, screening at events including Sitges, Monster Fest, FrightFest UK, ScreamFest and Telluride Horror Show, along with more than a dozen other festivals around the world.
Now, the sequel is finally getting its wider release.
The first Deathgasm, released in 2015, introduced Brodie and Zakk, two high-school metalheads who form a band and become involved with dark magic. Their attempt to summon a powerful entity known as The Blind One unleashes a demon apocalypse. Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon picks up years after those events, with Brodie attempting to put his life back together… and apparently deciding that raising his dead bandmates is the best way to do it.
Raven Banner partner and producer Andrew Thomas Hunt said the sequel was “built to be experienced loud, together, and on the biggest screen possible,” adding that the one-night theatrical event with Fantastic Fest Presents and Alamo Drafthouse is the ideal way to do that. Howden similarly described the movie as being made for “the misfits, the freaks, the outcasts, the headbangers, and the gorehounds.” And judging from everything we’ve seen from Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon so far, those fans should have plenty of blood and heavy metal waiting for them.
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