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January 18, 2020

Tonight we were awarded the VNPF Best Festival award! An award voted on by our peers – to get this recognition from people that we respect and admire is such an incredible feeling.

A huge thanks to everybody who helps to make Roadburn what it is; we couldn’t do it without you.

Pics: Nathan Reinds

July 5, 2019

We’re thrilled to bring you the latest collection of audio streams from Roadburn performances. Among those that are going live today from RB2019 are Thou (acoustic and Magus-era), Lingua Ignota, Henrik Palm, MJ Guider, Louise Lemón, Thor & Friends, Grails, Wolvennest, Bliss Signal and the Seven That Spells album trilogy shows.

Once again we have teamed up with VPRO 3voor12, Holland’s major cultural network, to bring you these streams in all their glory. As has become tradition, with the invaluable help of Marcel Van De Vondervoort (Torture Garden Studio) and his team, you are now able to relive or uncover some true highlights from the Roadburn vaults.

Producer:

Marcel van de Vondervoort (Spacejam Records / Torture Garden Studio)

Pre-production:
Robert de Lorijn (Spacejam Records)

Roadburn Festival audio engineers:

Michiel Ferweda
Matthijs Herder
Kristian Vloet
Han Pannekoek
Nikki Nijsten
Leon van Zuijlen

May 6, 2019

At this year’s side-programme, Roadburn curator Tomas Lindberg (At The Gates) and artistic director Walter sat down with journalist José Carlos Santos to discuss the art of curating, the difficulties of putting the running order together, and much, much more. Thanks to Metal Injection filming the Q & A! Take a look to get the ins and outs of organizing Roadburn 2019.

April 16, 2019

Roadburn Festival is over for another year, and dates for 2020 are already confirmed.

Artististic Director, Walter comments:
“As a festival that constantly seeks to raise the bar with ever more creative endeavours, we are beyond thrilled with how Roadburn 2019 unfolded. The level of collaboration, inspiration and artistic expression was beyond anything that I could have hoped for. There is still so much to get our heads around, but everybody is feeling so energised that our minds are already working towards Roadburn 2020.”

For the second year running, Roadburn played host to commissioned projects – this time there were three such performances across the weekend. On Thursday, a collaboration between former members of The Devil’s Blood and Astrosoniq united under the banner of Molasses to a rapturous reception. On Friday afternoon, Triptykon joined forces with the world-renowned Dutch Metropole Orkest to perform the Celtic Frost / Triptykon Requiem to a spellbound audience. On Saturday the Patronaat venue hosted an assortment of Dutch black metal bands before the night culminated with an enormous collaborative project under the name Maalstroom.

Tomas Lindberg took on the role of curator, hand picking a selection of bands that ranged from Swedish psych to Japanese post-rock, before performing with his own band, At The Gates. With a set that included a string quartet, a rotation of guests and some re-imaginings of familiar songs, a whole new light was shined upon their output.

Among the guest vocalists was Matt Pike from festival headliners, Sleep, who themselves delivered two thundering sets across the weekend. Promising one setlist that focussed on latest album The Sciences, and one that would zero in on the legendary Sleep‘s Holy Mountain album – expectations were exceeded on both nights.

Roadburn‘s 2019 artist in residence, Thou, performed four times across the weekend; an acoustic show, a Magus-era set, a collaboration with Emma Ruth Rundle, and a barn-storming, late night Misfits cover set at the Ladybird Skatepark where they were joined by an assortment of guests.

Impromptu skate park sets popped up throughout the weekend, including the likes of Mythic Sunship, Bismuth, Vile Creature and Lingua Ignota, giving audiences a second shot at catching some of the most exciting, up and coming bands across a broad spectrum of music scenes and genres.

Outside of the musical offerings of Roadburn 2019, visual art was strongly represented with exhibitions celebrating the work of Maarten Donders, Teddie Taylor, Emma Ruth Rundle, Marissa Nadler – plus the return of poster art exhibition, Full Bleed.

Roadburn‘s side programme events offered insight to the inner workings of Heilung, and Tom G. Warrior as well as multiple aspects of the music and creative arts industries. Kickstarter Games took over a corner of the festival to create a tabletop gaming enclave.

In amongst the heavy hitters and the headline bands were dozens of beautifully crafted and painstakingly planned performances across the four days. Each and every individual participant went above and beyond to create something truly special that audience and band members alike will cherish for years to come.

Roadburn will be doing it all again next year; April 16-19, Tilburg  – The Netherlands.