This announcement shows the broad scope of heaviness at Roadburn 2025. There are artistic, musical and emotional boundaries being pushed, and we are hosting both up-and-coming acts making their festival debuts alongside longstanding luminaries. We are looking to the future, to our roots, and in all directions in the present to find those artists defying the perceived limits of genre in the underground. We know there are no limits.

For the first time we are commissioning our artists in residence; in the past these have been two separate features of the festival. Whilst there will still be stand alone commissioned projects for 2025, we’re looking forward to presenting very special, exclusive sets from our artists in residence this coming April. We’re bringing more depth to the idea of what a Roadburn ‘residency’ means and trusting these performers to explore their respective bodies of work in new ways.

With all of this, and in the depth and diversity of our lineup, we are experimenting and growing. We do this with the intention of bringing people together, disregarding boundaries and misconceptions that divide us. We want Roadburn 2025 to cement the underground as an entirety; not a scattered thing, but many voices rising together in a celebration, uniting art and community.

The new names added to Roadburn 2025 are as follows:

Bambara
Big Brave performing A Chaos of Flowers
Blind Girls
Buñuel
CHVE
Coilguns performing Odd Love
Curses (Live)
Dødheimsgard performing Black Medium Current
Envy performing A Dead Sinking Story and a modern era/Eunoia set
Gilla Band – The Early Years
Gillian Carter
Glassing
Gnod Drop Out With White Hills
Great Falls
Messa performing The Spin
Michael Gira & Kristof Hahn (SWANS)
Artist In Residence: Midwife
Oranssi Pazuzu performing Muuntautuja
Pothamus performing Abur
Pygmy Lush
Smote performing A Grand Stream
Artist In Residence: Steve Von Till
Thou performing Umbilical
Tristwch Y Fenywod
Violent Magic Orchestra
Vuur & Zijde performing Boezem
Vyva Melinkolya
Witch Club Satan
Zombie Zombie