Niels de Vries

February 5, 2021

In spirit of yesterday’s Roadburn Redux announcement we hope this playlist can bring a bit of inspiration and most of all hope in these difficult times.

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

Cult of Luna – Wave After Wave (Red Creek)

DROTT – Shikoba (By Norse Music)

Empyrium – The Three Flames Sapphire (Prophecy Productions)(header image)

Lebanon Hanover – Come Kali Come (Fabrika Records)

Ana Marija Šir – I Wanna Be Your Dog (Self-Release)

VED – The Embrace Of The Oarfish (Rocket Recordings)

Party Dozen – The Worker (Grupa)

Mythic Sunship – Maelstrom (TeePee Records)

Kungens Män – Hamra med slutna ögen (Self-Rlease)

DJINN – Love Divine (Rocket Recordings)

Flying Moon In Space – Ardor (Fuzz Club Records)

Camila Fuchs – Mess (Felte)

John Dwyer – Baphomet (Castle Face)

Camera – Kartoffelstampf (Bureau B)

Blanck Mass – Starstuff – Single Edit (Sacred Bones)

Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon (Relapse Records)

February 4, 2021

Having hosted a number of Svart artists over the years at Roadburn, they’ve become part of the DNA of the festival… so to have an edition of Roadburn without any of their artists in 2021 seemed inconceivable. Fortunately, over in Finland, cogs were whirring and the machinery was ticking over already – and as we have done so many times before, our forces have united to bring you a number of exclusive and incredibly special performances.

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.

“For over a decade now Roadburn has been our most important European hub both as music fans and label managers, so being invited to join the program of the virtual Roadburn Festival is an immense honor. Dawnbearer by Hexvessel was the first actual album we ever released, and Roadburn is the perfect setting for an exclusive anniversary show, to tie in with the imminent re-release of the album. Other stars of the event include the cream of the younger psychedelic generation and two worldwide band premieres, including a very exciting, closely guarded secret collab group”,

– Tomi Pulkki, Svart Records founder

The Svart Sessions exclusive live program is as follows:

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 – Playing Dawnbearer in full
Hexvessel celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their debut record Dawnbearer, by performing the album in full, exclusively for Roadburn Redux! 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

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

Secret Collab
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!

Visual art has long been a big part of Roadburn, though with the 2021 festival not going ahead as planned, we seized the opportunity of an unfamiliar format and were inspired to push the artwork into new territory too. Instead of the illustrative poster art we have had for the last several editions we opted for visceral photography that really resonated with us.  These photographs highlight the talent found in the cutting edge Roadburn community, but at the same time bears the hallmarks of these traumatic and disorienting times as well. Therefore it felt like a natural step to embrace renowned tattoo and multidisciplinary artist Lucile Lejoly‘s extraordinary images as our official poster artwork for Roadburn Redux.

Hailing from Tours, France, Lucile’s disturbing yet poetic – and sometimes even romantic – works of art address issues related to climate, psychology, body and emotions, captured perfectly by her immediate visual style. Lucile‘s distinctive and life-affirming self-portraits that are at the heart of Roadburn Redux (and part of her revered Dendrites series), capture both the imagery of the underground, but also allows a redefinition of – or adjustment to –  today’s ongoing limitations, through her contemporary photography.

Lucile’s evocative observations of the world at large are a testimony to her feelings as well as a tool to contemplate and question ours as well. Welcome to Roadburn Redux, Lucile. We’re extremely proud to have you as our official artist in these unprecedented times; your contemplative aesthetic is helping us to go beyond the boundaries of our own troubled psyche. The true nature of challenging art.

January 29, 2021

Is it just us or does this feel like the first big week for album releases of 2021? If so, and if this is an indicator of what’s in store for the rest of the year, then we’re about to be truly spoiled… musically at least. The likes of Divide & Dissolve, Tribulation, Portrayal of Guilt etc whose albums we’ve eagerly been anticipating are finally out in the world. There’s plenty to get stuck into for your weekend listening, and maybe this playlist will point you in the direction of something new!

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

Chelsea Wolfe x Emma Ruth Rundle – Anhedonia (Sargent House)

Lost Horizons x Marissa Nadler – Marie (Bella Union)

Alcest – Protection (Acoustic Instrumental Version) (Nuclear Blast)

Allison Lorenzen x Midwife – VALE (Self-Release)

Silver Godling – Parallell You (Gilead Media)

Årabrot – The Lie (Pelagic Records)

Divide and Dissolve – It’s Really Complicated (Invada Records)

Timelost – Alone, Clean and Slow (Church Road Records)

Jeromes Dream – Keep Those Bristles Clean and Closed II (Microspy)

The Body – The Handle/The Blade (Beast and Man / Armed with Weapons)

Tribulation – Daughter of the Djinn (Century Media)

Portrayal Of Guilt – My Immolation (Closed Casket Activities)

Wowod – Proshchenie (Church Road Records)

January 22, 2021

Don’t let the current state of affairs keep you from discovering new music. Please consider this week’s playlist a guiding light – a beacon of creativity and hope!

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

Ulver & Carpenter Brut – Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers (House Of Mythology)

Spill Gold – Highway Hypnosis (Knekelhuis) (header pic)

Ghost Funk Orchestra – King of Misdirection (Karma Chief Records)

Mourning [A] BLKstar – If I Can If I May (Don Giovanni Records)

Moor Mother & Billy Woods – Furies(Backwoodz Studioz)

Exhalants – Bang</strong> (Hex Records)

Gulch – Lie, Deny, Sanctify (Closed Casket Activities)

Terminal Bliss – March of the Grieving Droid (Relapse Records)

Pupil Slicer – Wounds Upon My Skin (Prosthetic Records)

Autarkh – Turbulence (Season of Mist)

Wesenwille – The Descent (LADLO)

Emptiness – Vide, incomplet (Season of Mist)

Kira McSpice – Daylight (Self-Release)

Ece Canli – Umayuma (Lovers & Lollypops)

Future Museums – Side 2 (Aural Canyon)

Prairie WWWW – Shells (Self Release)

Aurat – Wada (Self Release)

Gaye Su Akyol – Isyan Manifestosu (Glitterbeat Records)

January 15, 2021

Alright – now we’re talking! This year is really starting to churn out some future classics. Dive in to a selection of tracks that have been keeping us hooked up to our headphones this week.

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

Gatecreeper – Sick of Being Sober (Close Casket Activities)

The Body – Tied Up and Locked In (Beast and Man SESAC)

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – Crone Dance (Sacred Bones Records)

Alkerdeel – Zop (Consouling Sounds / Babylon Doom Cult)

EyeHateGod – Fake What’s Yours (Century Media)

Tribulation – Funeral Pyre (Century Media)

The Lion’s Daughter – Neon Teeth (Season of Mist)

Here Lies Man – Collector of Vanities (RidingEasy Records)

Perfume Genius x Boy Harsher – Your Body Changes Everything (Matador Records)

Blanck Mass – Starstuff (Sacred Bones Records)

Alice Glass – Suffer and Swallow (Eating Glass Records)

Grayceon – The Lucky Ones (We Can Records)

Wardruna – Skugge (Fimbulljod Productions / Sony Music)

January 8, 2021

We’re only a week into a new year and it feels like longer! Fortunately there’s been some new tunes released already to help keep us sane… plus, we’re still (re)discovering and uncovering gems from 2020!

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

Sven Wunder – Snowdrops (Piano Piano Records)

Planning For Burial – When Summer Turns To Fall (The Flenser)

Zola Jesus – Krunk (Sacred Bones)

PÅGÅ – Water Strider (Svart Records)

Patriarchy x Drab Majesty – Burn The Witch (DERO Arcade)

Divide and Dissolve – Denial (Invada Records)

Folterkammer – Das Magnificat (Gilead Media)

The Ruins Of Beverast – Anchoress in Furs (Ván Records)

Portrayal Of Guilt – Garden of Despair (Closed Casket Activities)

Culted – Black Bird (Season of Mist)

Akhlys – Somniloquy (Eitrin)

Knoll – Lambent Urn (Self-Release)

MF DOOM – Doomsday (Self-Release)

December 16, 2020

We’re aware that many people have been speculating about the practicalities around hosting Roadburn 2021 as we originally planned – with everything simply carried over from 2020. Despite encouraging news about vaccines we are just not in a position to assume that will be possible in four months from now.

We are currently planning a very much scaled down, COVID-proof version of Roadburn for April 2021, which will be accessible whether you’re in Tilburg or somewhere else around the globe. We’ll have more information on that in the new year…

We’re so grateful that back in March/April you decided to roll over your tickets to 2021, but we understand that you might not be in a position to roll over again to 2022, so we will be offering refunds to those who would like to claim them. Holding on to your ticket is a huge help to us, and it guarantees your access to Roadburn in 2022 (set for April 21-24) – at 2020 prices!

Your options are as follows:

ROLLOVER – you’ve done it once, if you’d like to do it again and secure your ticket for Roadburn 2022 (set for April 21-24) then you don’t need to do anything and your ticket will automatically rollover.

REFUNDS – if you would like a refund you can request one via Ticketmaster – CLICK HERE.
You will have until February 10, 2021 to decide what you would like to do (if you do nothing, your ticket converts to a 2022 Roadburn ticket). Refunds – including those requested earlier this year – will take place on February 19, 2021.

If you booked a camping ticket of any sort or the night bus this will be refunded at the same time in February, regardless of whether you roll over your festival ticket or not. We will make plans for the 2022 Roadburn campsite in due course, but felt that it was fair to free up your money now so you can revisit your accommodation choices closer to the time.

Like many festivals, we are still facing tough decisions about how to progress in the face of an unpredictable, unprecedented pandemic. We have decided that we will not be rolling over the entire line up to 2022; it would be a huge risk and for many reasons it’s not practical to do so. However, we are in communication with bands, booking agents, labels etc to work out the best way to move forward. We have so many once-in-a-lifetime sets at Roadburn, and for some we’re going to have to wait a bit longer for those unique performances. Whilst we cannot tell you our 2022 plans now – we promise to deliver the high-level, special shows that you’ve become accustomed to.

Thank you for your understanding and patience. Despite the silver lining of being able to connect with the Roadburn community this coming April – more news on that in the new year – it is still with a sense of disbelief that we tackle each and every part of this endeavour. We hope you’re safe, well and finding solace in music, as we are.