Niels de Vries

April 2, 2021

After the massive announcement for Roadburn Redux, it’s time for our weekly playlist, and please make sure to support these bands (if possible, of course), as it’s Bandcamp Friday.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Motorpsycho – The Waning, Pt.1 (Stickman Records)

Zement – Hohlraum (Self-Release)

Storefront Church – After the Alphabets (Sargent House)

Hexvessel – The Death Knell Tolls (Svart Records)

Angel Olsen – It’s Every Season (Whole New Mess) (Jagjaguwar)

Heather Trost – Tracks To Nowhere (Third Man Records)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Job’s Lament (Constellation)

Everson Poe – Denial (Self-Release)

Slow White Fall – Country of Dust (Oliver Ho)

Scotch Rolex, Lord Spikeheart – Success (Hakuna Kulala)

D.J. Muggs the Black Goat – Incantation (Sacred Bones Records)

Cold Cave – Night Light (Heartworm Press)

Kælan Mikla – Sólstöður (Artoffact Records)

Slant – Terminal (Iron Lung Records)

Paysage d’Hiver – Schtampfä (Kunsthall Produktionen)

Rorcal, Earthflesh – Altars of Nothingness (Self-Release)

Thy Catafalque – Piros-sárga (Season of Mist)

March 24, 2021

Place your order for a limited edition Roadburn Redux merch pack (three colours available!), and – postal services depending – receive your items in time for the festival weekend. Orders shipping March 31!

Each pack contains
– Limited edition Roadburn Redux T-shirt (black, natural or khaki)
– Roadburn Festival logo enamel pin
– Limited edition Roadburn Redux festival wristband

Happy shopping!

March 19, 2021

While we are working really hard behind the scenes on Roadburn Redux, here’s this week’s playlist of what’s kept us going and inspired. Hope it will do the same for everyone here!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Flyying Colours – Boarding Pass (Club AC30) (header image)

Love-Songs – Kölner Strasse (Kryptox)

Sarah Neufeld – With Love and Blindness (One Little Independent)

NYX, Gazelle Twin – Deep England (NYC Collective Records)

Zackzackzack – Galactica (Rennweg Records)

Lee Paradise – Message to the Past (Telephone Explosion Records)

Spill Gold – Beast Machine Alien (Knekelhuis)

Morwan – Like A Dream (Feel It Records)

Djinn – Creator of Creation (Rocket Recordings)

Noêta – Above and Below (Prophecy Productions)

Pamirt – Mausoleum (Self-Release)

Kaunan – Maanpaako (Artoffact Records)

Mare Cognitum – Venus (The Priestess) (Entropic Recordings)

Eyehategod – Fake What’s Yours (Centurey Media)

Skroetbalg – Stompen In De Kroeg (Self-Release)

Bob Vylan – I Heard You Want Your Country Back (Self-Release)

March 12, 2021

Another Friday, another week – as always, jammed full of the songs that have gotten us through this week and are setting us up for the next one. Skipping through genres, and exploring what’s on offer – we hope you find something to help you through.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Arab Strap – The Turning of Our Bones (Rock Action Records)

Black Mountain – Junior’s Eyes (Jagjaguwar)

Årabrot – Hailstones for Rain (Pelagic Records)

U.S. Girls – Junkyard (4AD)

Facs – Strawberry Cough (Trouble In Mind Records)

SOM – Awake // Sedate (Self-Release)

Nadja – Luminous Rot (Southern Lord)

Wolvennest – All That Black (Ván Records)

Autarkh – Lost to Sight (Season of Mist)

Wolf King – Wandering Soul (Prosthetic Records)

Inter Arma – Hallucinatorium – 2020 Version (Relapse Records)

Pupil Slicer – Husk (Prosthetic Records)

Gulch – Bolt Swallower (Tripple B Records)

Regional Justic Centre – Dust Off (Closed Casket Activities)

March 6, 2021

COMMISSIONED MUSIC

MIZMOR PRESENTS WIT’s END

We were due to welcome Mizmor back to Roadburn in 2020 – a reunion and a celebration of this wonderful and ever-evolving creative outlet for one of our favourite, forward thinking musicians. But life had other plans and that got put on ice. However, we’re delighted to announce that A.L.N agreed to work on a specially commissioned piece of music that will premiere during Roadburn Redux.

Titled Wit’s End, this brand new, fifteen minute track will make its debut accompanied by an original video made specially for the release by Zev Deans. The track will make an appearance on an upcoming Mizmor release via Gilead Media later this year, but for now details of that remain under wraps.
Read more HERE

PRIMITIVE MAN
We’re thrilled to announce that we commissioned Primitive Man to compose and record all-new, original material to make its debut during Roadburn this April. Having made their mark in such an unforgettable way with each release so far, we have no doubt that the material we have the honour of presenting this April will follow suit.

Primitive Man’s Ethan Lee McCarthy comments: “We have spent the last year writing these songs in spite of everything that has been going on. We have no other choice but to be tougher than the darkness that surrounds us. And these songs reflect not only times of extreme darkness but the need to persevere. Long live extreme music, long live friendship and long live Roadburn.”
Read more HERE

MANY BLESSINGS
As well as fronting the formidable Primitive Man, Ethan Lee McCarthy has another outlet for his creativity in the form of Many Blessings. Understandably sharing much of the same DNA as Primitive Man, Many Blessings offers a goosebump-inducing ominous atmosphere. Always hungry for more of those foundation-shattering creations, we commissioned Ethan to create new Many Blessings material that will premiere during Roadburn Redux. Read more HERE

PARADOX PRESENTS: AUTARKH III
Having already announced an Autarkh performance for Roadburn Redux, we’re thrilled to announce a second, very different performance from this up and coming Tilburg-based band, under a slightly different guise: Autarkh III. The trio consists of Autarkh-members David Luiten (vocals / guitars), Michel Nienhuis (vocals / guitars) and Tijnn Verbruggen (live electronics) and aims to represent an alternative timeline of Autarkh’s debut album Form In Motion.
Read more HERE

ALBUM PREMIERE

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER PERFORMING ASCENSION
There’s no denying that Regarde Les Hommes Tomber’s Ascension left a mark on us and the wider Roadburn community. We’re thrilled that they’ll be performing the whole thing for us in its entirety, their intoxicating amalgam of genres brought to life especially for Roadburn Redux.
Read more HERE

THE DEVIL’S TRADE PERFORMING THE CALL OF THE IRON PEAK
A little way outside of Budapest you’ll find the Tárnok Quarry – a place that has been the source of many fruitful and historic endeavours over many centuries. Now this magical location will host The Devil’s Trade – for a very special performance of The Call of The Iron Peak recorded specially for Roadburn Redux. We’re thrilled to be the conduit for such an evocative and unusual performance.
Read more HERE

SVART SESSIONS: HAUNTED PLASMA
Teased last month we can now reveal the secret project that will be part of the Svart Sessions at Roadburn REDUX. The phantoms at the beating nucleus of this unearthly machine are Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Grave Pleasures), Timo Kaukolampi (K-X-P, Op:l Bastards) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, Aavikko, K-X-P), transmitting a music form evolved from a life of redefining sonic boundaries in their respective projects.

Also featuring guest vocals from Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, Carpenter Brut, Beastmilk) and Ringa Manner (Ruusut, The Hearing) Haunted Plasma promises an extraterrestrial experience from some of the foremost contemporary musicians at the heart of the Finnish heavy and avant-garde musical underworld.
Read more HERE

GALLOPS
Back in 2018, Gallops made their debut at Roadburn Festival – the Welsh trio brought the party to Het Patronaat with a late-night showcase of pulsating electronica and sweeping experimental rock. Now they’re back for Roadburn Redux, and will be beaming their out-there beats to wherever you are in the world with a virtual live performance. Read more HERE

INTER ARMA COVERED IN THE COMPOUND: LIVE AT CHESTERFIELD EAST
Being fans of Inter Arma in any and every guise, we’d booked them to perform Sulphur English in full for the ill-fated Roadburn 2020 – and now we’ve asked them to perform a covers set at Roadburn Redux. Although we’ll not be able to experience it up close and personal, if anyone can communicate an after-party vibe through the airwaves and in pixel form, it’s these guys.
Read more HERE

MAGGOT HEART
Maggot Heart made their Roadburn debut back in 2018, and despite only having one EP, 2017’s City Girls, to their name at the time, they drew in the masses who were eager to see what this exciting new project had in store. Maggot Heart didn’t disappoint – getting the packed-out Green Room grooving to their raucous late-night show.

Latest album, Mercy Machine, will provide the material for their Roadburn Redux set, filmed at Urban Spree in Berlin; we can’t wait to welcome Maggot Heart back to Roadburn in this digital format.
Read more HERE

OFFERMOSE
Craving tidal waves of shape shifting sounds that open wide the hidden portal of the mind and the twisted trails to the distant light within thyself? Look no further – from the bottomless depths of murky forest lakes to the unfathomable reaches of primordial cosmos, Offermose will rise with yet another dark ritual of sacrifice, this time exclusively for Roadburn Redux. Read more HERE

WAYFARER
Wayfarer will be making an appearance at Roadburn this year with a virtual live set, where the Denver-based quartet will perform tracks from their latest album A Romance With Violence for the very first time.

Wayfarer’s Shane McCarthy comments: “We are honored to be invited by Roadburn to take part in this event. We’ve been eager to bring material from ‘A Romance With Violence’ to the stage, and as the insanity of the world rolls on there is no better place to do so than here. Roadburn have always set a high water mark for creativity, innovation and connection through music – and it is great to see them continue to do so even as this whole industry is in tumult. We look forward to kicking off the performing cycle for ‘Romance’ on your screens this April.” Read more HERE

March 5, 2021

As you probably know, it’s Bandcamp Friday. We hope this lengthy playlist will inspire you to support these bands and artists, or spread the word in these unprecedented times for the music industry, especially our beloved underground.

Stay strong, stay supportive and be there for each other.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Wolvennest – Sweat to Fire (Ván Records) (header art)

The Suns Journey Through The Night – Crawling Nebula of Dismal Light (Repose Reords)

Ancient Mastery – The Passage (Self-Release)

Grey Aura – Maria Segovia (Onism Productions)

Offermose – Korrupt Tradition (Third Coming Records)

Perturbator – Death of the Soul (Blood Music)

Youth Code, King Yosef – Looking Down (Self-Release)

The Lucid Dream – CHI-03 (Holy Are You Records)

Alan Vega – Nike Soldier (Sacred Bones Records)

Moths & Locusts – Genghis Khan (NoiseAgonyMayhem Records)

Show Me The Body – Survive (Loma Vista Recordings)

TEKE::TEKE – Meikyu (Kill Rock Stars)

DJ Muggs – Nigrum Mortem (Sacred Bones Records)

Mong Tong – Luopan (Ancient Move Records)

Dijf Sanders – Swans On Drums (Unday Records / N.E.W.S.)

Plankton Wat – Wind Mountain (Thrill Jockey)

Liquify – Crystals Flow Forth from the Sea of Green (Self-Release)

Meer – Picking Up The Pieces (Karisma Records)

February 19, 2021

Let this week’s lengthy and atmospheric playlist – ranging from dark electronica to exciting black metal and heavy dream pop, among others – take you to the most beautiful and unknown places. There’s so much to discover – let your imagination run free with our essential sounds as your guide. No boundaries, no limitations in scope and feel.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

SOM – Youth // Decay (Pelagic Records)

Genghis Tron – Ritual Circle (Relapse Records)

Prurient – Tokyo Exorcist (Hospital productions)

Matteo Vallicelli – X-Rays & Šostakovic (Self-Release)

Blitzkrieg Baby – World on Fire (Beläten)

White Ring – I Need A Way (Rocket Girl)

Youth Code, King Yosef – Burner (Self-Release)

Crown – Illumination (Pelagic Records)

Spectral Wound – Frigid and Spellbound (Profound Lore)

Silver Knife – The Numinous Loom (Entropic Recordings)

Svrm – Dementia (Self Release)

Wesenwille – A Material God (LADLO Prod)

MSW – Humanity (Gilead Media)

The Devil’s Trade, John Conner – Dead Sister Merope (Season of Mist)

Byrdi – Heim (Trollmusic)

Asphodel Wine – Slowdance Macabre (Consouling Sounds)

Techno Thriller – Le Sombre Hiver (Teenage Menopause)

Ssaliva – The Longest Sleep (Self-Release)

Tomaga – Intimate Intensity (Hands in the Dark)

Pauline Anna Strom – Temple Garden at Midnight (RVNG Intl)

Luca Yupanqui – V4.3 pt.2 (Sacred Bones)

Senyawa – Istana (les Albums Claus)

February 13, 2021

Roadburn 2021 will be taking place in an unfamiliar format, but will retain the hallmarks of what makes the usual editions a must-attend event for fans of heavy music around the globe. This online version of the festival, titled Roadburn Redux, will feature performances broadcast live from the 013 venue in Tilburg, as well as pre-recorded and exclusive content, between April 16-18. Despite these new obstacles, Roadburn will showcase the very best of cutting edge performances, and highlight the most innovative and engaging artists in the Roadburn universe; everything available to access as part of Roadburn Redux will be exclusive – either a commissioned project or a premiere. The poster artwork for Roadburn Redux is is by Lucile Lejoyle – click HERE to read more.

A series of performances due to take place at the 013 venue have been confirmed – see below for more information – which will be simultaneously broadcast via a special website featuring a live blog with a continuous stream of content. Alongside those transmissions from Tilburg, Roadburn will host exclusive content from a variety of artists, including further commissioned work and exclusive performances.

Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter, comments: “The last year has been incredibly difficult for everybody to navigate; keeping safe is paramount, but it often came at the expense of the ‘normal’ life we’d come to enjoy. For us, that meant a halt to Roadburn as we knew it. However, Roadburn Redux gives us the opportunity to reconnect with the artists and community that are at the heart of Roadburn; to bring a bit of joy, friendship, inspiration, and most of all hope in these difficult times. I’m thrilled by the performances we’ve already secured – the format might be different, but the spirit of Roadburn remains strong.”

Roadburn Redux has been made possible due to the support from Brabant C, Gemeente Tilburg, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Bavaria 8.6, Ticket to Tilburg.

BROADCAST LIVE FROM THE 013 – COMMISSIONED PROJECTS

DEAD NEANDERTHALS PERFORMING IXXO
With the irrepressible duo bursting at the seams with creative ideas, we knew they’d be perfect candidates for one of the all new commissioned projects for Roadburn Redux. At the time of writing this, the project is still being developed but already has us hooked, keen to find out exactly what’s in store come April. Otto and René have teamed up with Dutch singer/songwriter Aafke Romeijn, and Jonge Woudloper, one of the musicians in Aafke’s band, to create IXXO.
Read more HERE

DIE WILDE JAGD PERFORMING ATEM
Injecting some much needed freshness into what can sometimes be a stagnant scene, Die Wilde Jagd can reasonably be described as experimental at any given time – their heady blend of psychedelic electronic-rock futurism is intoxicating – but under the banner of a Roadburn commissioned project christened Atem, experimentation has truly run wild.
Read more HERE

DIRK SERRIES PERFORMING EPITAPH
For this special Roadburn Redux performance, Roadburn regular, Dirk Serries will be creating and improvising alongside Tom Malmendier on drums and Rutger Zuydervelt on electronics. Having already collaborated with both previously, but never in this exact configuration, we’re sure to be in for a treat.
Read more HERE

GOLD PERFORMING THIS SHAME SHOULD NOT BE MINE
Having long been fans of their output, and knowing that they were the sort of artists that could take an idea and run with it, we were also convinced that they would relish the task of creating a commissioned piece for Roadburn Redux. Due to social restrictions, the core writing duo of Thomas and Milena commenced the writing for this project at home; the performance will feature the full GOLD line up as the debut this cathartic and bold creation. Read more HERE

JO QUAIL PERFORMING THE CARTOGRAPHER
Jo Quail performing The Cartographer is the only commissioned piece from 2020’s Roadburn line up to be carried over into 2021. Jo’s intention is to explore heaviness and to focus on exploring the juxtaposition between classical and more contemporary music, in this case post-metal. Jo will join forces with Rotterdam’s highly regarded New Trombone Collective – a group of trombonists who pride themselves on innovation, creativity and collaboration – to work towards communicating specific feelings through their combined output. Read more HERE

NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM PERFORMING SET CHAOS TO THE HEART OF THE MOON
If you’ve already experienced something of Neptunian Maximalism, you’ll already know that the best way to listen to them is to give yourself over completely. For the uninitiated it’s time to shake off your inhibitions and let loose! For this performance commissioned by Roadburn, they will explore their 2020 album, Éons, in a completely new way. Read more HERE

OF BLOOD AND MERCURY PERFORMING THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH
Of Blood and Mercury will perform a commissioned piece called The Other Side of Death, a soundtrack that will move us through the first moments of after-life.  They promise that our earthly perception of time, space, sound, and feeling will fall apart. Not fully here, nor there, nowhere and everywhere; the lie about death is the beginning of the lie about life. Read more HERE

RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON PERFORMING THUS SPOKE THE BEHOLDER
They say that good things come in threes – and 2021 will mark the third Roadburn appearance for Dutch experimentalists, Radar Men From The Moon. The Eindhoven-based space-travellers will descend on Tilburg for a special performance of a commissioned piece they have titled Thus Spoke The Beholder. Having always embraced evolution within the fuzzed-out confines of RMFTM, this six piece have taken on the task with relish.
Read more HERE

SOLAR TEMPLE PERFORMING THE GREAT STAR ABOVE PROVIDES
Lurking in some of the darkest corners of the Dutch black metal scene we found Solar Temple – an entirely studio-focussed duo featuring members of Fluisteraars and Turia – and couldn’t resist tempting them out into the bright lights for this very special edition of Roadburn. Marking their first ever live performance, this commissioned project is the next step in the band’s evolution.
Read more HERE

TDC INC. PERFORMING CORPORATE
With time it was inevitable that both PRSPCT and Roadburn would come together, as we share a kindred anti-authoritarian spirit while defying musical borders as well. Most of us will have to wait for another time for a face to face experience of their head on collision of old school drum and bass, electronic violence and black metal. However, as their asphyxiating maelstrom of bludgeoning beats, guitars and imagery is still very urgent, it prompted us to make sure that both the label and The Dead Cvlt are part of Roadburn Redux commissioned music projects, as we’re beyond intrigued to see and hear how the confinement of the pandemic has influenced their artistry.
Read more HERE

THE NEST PERFORMING HER TRUE NATURE
The Nest is a collaboration between members of Wolvennest and some special – as yet unannounced – guests. Each individual participating retains their own signature sound and identity, but comes together to create something unified. This entirely original, commissioned performance will combine meditative, ritualistic elements with psychedelic sounds and blackened doom metal, as well as uniting a group of long-time friends on stage for the first time together in this constellation.
Read more HERE

BROADCAST LIVE FROM THE 013 – ALBUM PREMIERES

AUTARKH PERFORMING FORM IN MOTION
Tilburg has cemented its importance for underground heavy bands with a steady trickle of innovative and compelling bands making their ways out into the wider world. The latest such band is Autarkh, who – we are delighted to announce – will be performing their debut album in full for us this April. Founding member of Dodecahedron, Michel Nienhuis, teamed up with producer Joris Bonis (Dodecahedron, Ulsect), guitarist David Luiten and electronic composer / producer Tijnn Verbruggen to create the oppressive, claustrophobic and totally exhilarating wild ride that is Form In Motion. Read more HERE

DIE WILDE JAGD PERFORMING HAUT
Having spent most of 2020 familiarising ourselves with the spacious, meditative, and yet still distinctly experimental beauty of Haut, we asked the mastermind behind Die Wilde Jagd, Sebastian Lee Philipp, who is joined on stage by Ran Levari on drums, if they’d consider playing the whole thing in full for us at Roadburn Redux. Fortunately for us – and for you – they agreed.
Read more HERE

EMPTINESS PERFORMING VIDE
Back in 2017 Emptiness shrouded Het Patronaat with their tenebrous black metal atmospherics in such a way that a return visit was always going to be on the cards –  just the when and where were in question. We’re delighted to announce that Emptiness will perform their sixth studio offering in its entirety at Roadburn Redux in April, and no doubt leave us all questioning our version of reality. To listen to Vide on record is to let the rolling fog pin us down and envelop us, to witness it live may just consume us entirely.
Read more HERE

PLAGUE ORGAN PERFORMING ORPHAN
The duo comprising of René Aquarius (Cryptae, Imperial Cult, Horrid Apparition, Imperial Cult, Dead Neanderthals, etc) and recording engineer Marlon Wolterink (White Noise Studio and one half of the band Meglamancha) is a black/death/noise amalgam that will give you nightmares for weeks to come.  Their live debut was originally due to happen at Le Guess Who? Festival in 2020 so the legendary festival is collaborating with us to present this show as part of Roadburn Redux. Read more HERE

WOLVENNEST PERFORMING TEMPLE
Having conquered the main stage at Roadburn once, Wolvennest are returning to do the same this April, as they perform their brand new album, Temple, in full. Due for release in March, you’ll have just enough time to get acquainted with their latest missive before we’re well and truly sucked into their dark but strangely alluring netherworld.
Read more HERE

ONLINE:
The full online programme for Roadburn Redux will be announced in due course, but as a statement of intent and an indicator of the high quality performances that will be presented, we’re thrilled to confirm that as part of our pre-recorded exclusive content we’ll have…

THE SVART SESSIONS.
Think The Old Grey Whistle Test on acid; imagine a Jools Holland psychedelic special and you’ll be heading in the right direction. The Svart Sessions will feature brand new signings and established artists side by side, all connected to the notoriously fertile psych rock scene in Tampere. These six performances truly encapsulate the very best of the Finnish heavy, psych and freak-folk underground scene – delivered right into your home this April. Read more about Roadburn and Svart HERE

The Svart Sessions will feature:

DUST MOUNTAIN
(feat. members of Oranssi Pazuzu, Dark Buddha Rising, Death Hawks)
International live debut, performing songs from their forthcoming Svart Records debut. Read more HERE

HEXVESSEL PERFORMING DAWNBEARER 
Hexvessel celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their debut record Dawnbearer, by performing the album in full, exclusively for Roadburn Redux!
Read more HERE

ITERUM NATA
Personal psychedelic occult folk created by Hexvessel lead guitarist Jesse Heikkinen, plays an intimate acoustic show of songs from his 2020 album Bardo Disorder, in his first live stream ever.
Read more HERE

KAIRON; IRSE!
Kosmische post-rock prog-freaks Kairon; IRSE!’s first ever live stream video, as they play their critically acclaimed new album Polysomn in full.
Read more HERE

POLYMOON
Young rising stars, present their six track psych prog explosion Caterpillars of Creation in its entirety exclusively for Roadburn Redux!
Read more HERE

A SECRET COLLABORATION…
A special and exciting collaboration between some highly revered members of the Finnish psych rock underground, with more details to be divulged at a later date!

TICKETS & INFO.
Roadburn Redux is available to attend on a ‘pay what you like’ basis, from anywhere in the world. Head to RoadburnRedux.com to RSVP and bookmark the page.

February 12, 2021

A new week, a new playlist!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Emptiness – Un corps à l’abandon (Season of Mist)

Mission to the Sun – Damaged (Felte)

October and the Eyes – Dark Dog (KRO Records)

Cult of Luna x Mark Lanegan – Inside of a Dream (Red Creek)

Oryx – Misery (Translation Loss Records)

Horndal – Rossen (Prosthetic Records)

Cruelty – A Lie That Makes Life Bearable (Church Road Records)

Autarkh – Lost to Sight (Season of Mist)

The Armed – ALL FUTURES (Sargent House)

Amulets – Heaviest Wait (The Flenser)

Gatecreeper – Emptiness (Closed Casket Activities)