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September 17, 2021

Enjoy this week’s lengthy playlist as times seem to be changing… and more and more seems possible.

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

Placebo – Beautiful James (SO Recordings)

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Queen Sophie for President (Epitaph)

Lindy-Fay Hella, Dei Farne – Hildring (By Norse Music)

Marissa Nadler, Mary Lattimore – If I Could Breathe Underwater (Bella Union) (Header image)

Traitrs – Oh, Ballerina (Freakwave)

Ploho – Aughts (Artoffact Records)

Spiritczualic Enhancement Center – My Silence Is Spanish (Kryptox)

Love-Songs, U.Schütte – Dumpfes, hämmerndes Dröhnen (Bureau B)

Alice Hubble – Gleichfalls (Happy Robot Records)

Golden Bug, Vega Voga – Tokoyo No Kuni (La Belle records)

Sababa 5 – Baksheesh (Baktov Records)

Axis: Sova – (Don’t Wanna Have That) Dream (Drag City)

The Limiñanas, Laurent Garnier – Juliette dans la caravane (Berreto Music)

Arushi Jain – My People Have Deep Roots (Leaving Records)

Richard Dawson, Circle – Lily (Domino Recording)

GNOD – Pink Champagne Blues (Rocket Recordings)

The Bug, Manga Saint Hilare – Bang (Ninja Tune)

Noise Unit – K7 (Artoffact Records)

Vile Creature – Paperdool (The Flenser)

Balmog – Slander (War Anthem Records)

Norna – The Truther (Vinter Records)

September 10, 2021

This week’s playlist kicks off with the return of Emma Ruth Rundle – a new album is due from her before the end of the year, and we couldn’t be more thrilled here at Roadburn HQ. As such a bold and talented artist, it seemed fitting that her new single would commence this week’s crop of new music.

Emma Ruth Rundle – Return (Sargent House)

The Body x Big ‡ Brave – Blackest Crow (Thrill Jockey)

Greet Death – I Hate Everything (Deathwish Inc.)

Kayo Dot – Get Out of the Tower (Prophecy Productions)

LLNN x Cryptopsy x Matt McGachy – Desecrator (Pelagic Records)

Mehenet – Dona Sete (Gilead Media)

Der Weg einer Freiheit – Morgen (Season of Mist)

Maggot Heart – Zero Hour Day (Rapid Eyee Records)

Cruel Wonders – My Anguish (Self-Release)

Shy, Low – The Beacon (Pelagic Records)

Sugar Horse – Phill Spector in Hell (Small Pond Records)

Jute Gyte – Pentalpha (Adam Kalmbach)

September 3, 2021

Today is a Bandcamp Friday, which means that more of the money you spend on music on the platform goes to into the pockets of the bands and labels that you love.

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

Zetra – Pull Me Under (Children of the Vortex)

Perturbator x Health – Excess (Blood Music)

Deathsomnia – Void Oblivion (Isolation Rec.)

Zeal & Ardor – Bow (Redacted GmbH)

Full of Hell – Reeking Tunnels (Relapse Records)

Portrayal of Guilt – Possession (Run For Cover Records)

MØL – Serf (Nuclear Blast)

Fluisteraars – Het overvleugelen der meute (Eisenwald)

Wormwitch – Canadian Denim Mountain Attack (Prosthethic Records)

Green Lung – Graveyard Sun (Svart Records)

Spirit Adrift – Invisible Enemey (Century Media)

Hour of 13 – Within the Pentagram (Self-Release)

Iron Maiden – Death Of The Celts (Parlophone)

September 2, 2021

The Lovecraft Sextet marks the long-awaited return of all round multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Jason Köhnen into the realms of Darkjazz. The forthcoming debut album, ‘In Memoriam’ (out on Denovali Records on September 24), sees Köhnen further explore his unbridled love for cinematic jazz-oriented compositions.

Inspired by death, release and rebirth, ‘In Memoriam’ also incorporates funereal aspects of classical, operatic and Gregorian music, adding tonal depth to his previous work with The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation.

Today, we’re thrilled to premiere “De Mysteriis [Musicorum],“ the second single of ‘In Memoriam’, which, like the whole record, also ties in with his first narrative short story that will be part of the album release.

August 27, 2021

We’re opening this week’s playlist with the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” and Trouble’s “Pray For The Dead” in tribute to Charlie Watts and Eric Wagner, and all those who we have lost during these unprecedented times. Let’s stick together, as we all need something to hold onto.

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

The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (ABKCO Music)

Trouble – Pray for the Dead (Hammerheart Records)

Voivod – Clouds In My House (Geffen Records)

Nothing – Amber Gambler (Relapse Records)

Platon Karataev – Partért kiáltó (Self-Rlease)

The Holy Road – The Minotuar (Outpost 13 Recordings)

A.A. Williams – Control (Bella Union)

Marissa Nadler – Bessie Did You Make It (Bella Union)

Lyssa – Blood (Self-Release)

Lonnie Gunn – Hammerhead (Fool Moon Party)

Body/Negative, Vinyl Williams – Song To The Siren (Track Number Records)

Vanishing Twin – Phase One Million (Fire Records)

Upupayãma – Green Cabana (Alessio Ferrari)

Liila – Appa Wú Wéi (Not Not Fun)

Nero Kane – Angelene’s Desert (Nasoni Records)

Horte – Kun joki haihtuu (Pelagic Records)

Mono – Innocence (Pelagic Records)

Deafheaven – Mombasa (Sargent House)

August 20, 2021

Let this week’s playlist be the soundtrack to your weekend – whether you’re venturing out, or staying home. As ever we hope you find something new, or are able to reconnect with an old favourite. If you like what you hear, please hit that “heart” button on Spotify – we update the playlist every Friday with new tunes.

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

Deafheaven – Shellstar (Sargent House)

Circuit des Yeux – Dogma (Matador Records)

Fly Pan Am – Parkour 2 (Constellation)

Hoaxed – Candle Master (Relapse Records)

Chat Pile – Brutal Truth (Self-Release)

Portrayal Of Guilt – Touched by an Angel (Self-Release)

Succumb – Aither (The Flenser)

Wolves In The Throne Room – Through Enternal Fields (Century Media)

Ulver – Bounty Hunter (House of Mythology)

Wreck and Reference – Change (In The House of Flies) (The Flenser)

Alora Crucible – Bottomless Madraguda (House of Mythology)

Massimo Pupillo, Gabriele Tinti, Márton Csókás – The Lyre of Blood Will Drive off All Evil (House of Mytholgy)

The Lovecraft Sextet – Funebre Macabre (Denovali Records)

August 6, 2021

This week’s playlist is jam-packed with Roadburn alumni, as well as some up-and-comers who have caught our ear lately. The second half of 2021 is shaping up to be flush with exciting albums exploring heaviness in such a diverse array of ways. Bring it on!

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

Full of Hell – Industrial Messiah Complex (Relapse Records)

Enslaved – Caravans to the Outer Worlds (Nuclear Blast)

Wolves In The Throne Room – Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire) (Century Media)

Wormwitch – Hammer of the Underworld (Prosthetic Records)

King Woman – Coil (Relapse Records)

Møl – Photophobic (Nuclear Blast)

Kayo Dot – Void in Virgo (Prophecy Productions)

Soen – EMDR (Silver Lining Music)

Green Lung – Reaper’s Scynthe (Svart Records)

Hail Spirit Noir – The Monsters (Agonia Records)

Deathsomnia – Akinesia (Isolation Rec)

Deafheaven – In Blur (Sargent House)

Slow Crush – Hush (Church Road Records)

Michael Love Michael, Chelsea Wolfe – Have (MLM Loves You)

Lingua Ignota – Man Is Like A Spring Flower (Sargent House)

July 30, 2021

Opening this week’s playlist with ZZ Top’s classic anthem “Tush” is a fitting tribute to the late Dusty Hill, and also a nod to all of the great, new music that’s out there, too!

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

ZZ Top – Tush (Warner Records)

Jerry Cantrell – Atone (Self-Release)

Healthyliving – Until (Self-Release)

King Woman – Coil (Relapse Records)

Zetra – Care (Children of the Vortex)

Sculptured – Dead Wall Reveries (The End Records)

These Hidden Hands, Zanias – Shackles (Hidden Hundred)

Blak Saagan – La Firma del Legionairo Maple Death Records)

Mightyhealthy – Peppered Jab (Grimey Nobody Records)

Pleasure Plateau – Cortisol (Self-Release)

The Bug, Flowdan – Pressure (Ninja Tune)

Tropical Fuck Storm – New Romeo Agent (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Angel Olsen – Safety Dance (Somethingscosmic)

Grouper – Unclean mind (Kranky)

Torment & Glory – No Big Crime (Sargent House)

Underdark – Qeres (Surviving Sounds)

Succumb – Okeanos (The Flenser)

Ungraven – Onwards She Rides to a Certain Death (Black Bow Records)

Slomatics – Monitors (Black Bow Records)

Papangu – Bacia das Almas (Self-Release)

July 23, 2021

Let this week’s lengthy playlist start a summer holiday of sorts, or at least launch a trip into an imaginary festival without any restrictions, as the current state of affairs is still way too to difficult to navigate, and we really need a brief escape. Enjoy!

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

Cave In – Youth Overrided (Sony Music)

Illudium – Soma Sema (Prophecy Productions)

Mono – Riptide (Pelagic Records)

Eskina – We Were the Moon (Challenge Records)

Horte – Pelko karistaa järjen (Pelagic Records)

Midwife – Colorado (The Flenser)

Low – Disappearing (Sub Pop)

Alexis Marshall – Drink from the Oceans . Nothing Can… (Sargent House)

Desire Marea, Gyre – Studies in Black Trauma (Izimakade Records)

Moor Mother, lojii – Shekere (Self-Release)

Dame Area – La Doble Luna (Mannequin Records)

Alessandro Cortini – Lo Specchio (Mute Artists)

Hooveriii – We’re Both Lawyers (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)

Restive Plaggona – Swimming In The Rain (Fleisch Records)

Elektro Hafız – Ali Rodrigez (Ironhand Records)

Kutiman – Guruji (Siyal Music)

The Holy Family – Chasm Second Part (Rocket Recordings)

Drott – The Marauders (By Norse Music)

Ghorot – Charioteer of Fire (Self-Release)

God’s Bastard – To the Last Standing Village (I, Voidhanger Records)

July 16, 2021

“Sometimes, on a Thursday night (or a Friday morning, or a Saturday afternoon), it turns out that a new track from Iron Maiden is just what’s needed to get your blood pumping. ‘Is the Roadburn Essential Sounds playlist the place for Iron Maiden?’, I pondered. As you’ll see – the conclusion was definitely yes.

“If the mighty Maiden aren’t your bag, there’s plenty more to tickle your fancy this Friday. Enjoy!”

— Becky Laverty

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

Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall (Parlophone Records)

Spirit Adrift – Forge Your Future (Century Media)

Fawn Limbs – Noose Gestures (Roman Numeral Records)

Chat Pile – Roots Bloody Roots (The Flenser)

Four Stroke Baron – Friday Knight (Prosthetic Records)

La Femme – Paradigme (Disque Pointu)

Crippled Black Phoenix – Dead is Dead (Season of Mist)

King Woman – Boghz (Relapse Records)

Deathsomnia – Katabasis (Ft. Kyle Kimball) (Isolation Rec)

Howlin Rain – Dharma Wheel (Silver Current)

Kurt Vile – Run Run Run (UMG recordings) (Header image)

Midwife – Enemy (The Flenser)

Lingua Ignota – Perpetual Flame Of Centralia (Sargent House)