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For many years now Roadburn has offered artists an opportunity to showcase the multi-faceted nature of their work when we invite them to be our artists in residence. In these instances, the artists will perform multiple times over the course of a Roadburn edition – sometimes with collaborators, sometimes performing full album sets, always pushing the boundaries of their creativity. For the 2025 edition – and beyond – we are adding a new kind of residency to Roadburn, one that stretches over three editions of the festival. 

Our very first triennium residency will commence in 2025 and run through until the 2027 edition. Each year of this elongated showcase will highlight different elements, different possibilities within a particular artist’s skillset. Within this structure, we hope to be able to support and nourish the development of a particular artist, enjoy watching them flourish in new ways and of course, as always, provide them with a stage to do their best work. 

The artist that we are collaborating with for our very first three-year residency is Lane Shi. She performs most often under the moniker Otay:Onii, but she is a frequent collaborator, and an artist in the truest sense of the word. Her imagination knows no limits and her dedication to creativity is inspiring. 

Lane’s first performance at Roadburn, in 2023, was with her former band, Elizabeth Colour Wheel, who also participated in a collaborative commissioned project with Ethan Lee McCarthy. That same year she performed a spell-binding solo set of her Otay:Onii material that left the audience enraptured, and us as her biggest fans. Having moved to Europe in early 2024, Lane has already made her presence felt working with musicians across multiple genres and performing in the headline-grabbing opera by Florentina Holzinger, Sancta.

For the first installment of her residency, Lane will perform her latest album, True Faith Ain’t Blind, in its entirety. With the spotlight trained on her piano playing and her distinctive voice, this is an opportunity for us to immerse ourselves in Lane’s work in its rawest, most vulnerable form. 

Of her invitation to be Roadburn’s very first triennium artist in residence, Lane said:

“Roadburn is my favorite festival on earth, I am honored and grateful. Now I put my excitement for the engine of passion: 2025! Allow me to unleash fingers to dance on the piano keys like tiptoe steps on pebble stones of a lifetime – and there’s a throat to sing for love, a hymn for joy, to mourn in grief, to weep for the wounds of an opening portal to a brave new world. For the next three years I would like to introduce you to the multimedia performance pieces that I always wanted to bring to light. From the never-ending ouroboros we diverge to a new moon, and tell a tale that was never told.”

We always want to take Roadburn attendees on a journey; every edition is different. But this time around we’re inviting you to join us to witness a special, one-of-a-kind artist develop in real time, a wholehearted journey of discovery that we’ll embark upon together. 

When we heard Heath’s debut album, Isaak’s Marble, we knew that this newcomer five-piece from The Hague needed to be on our stage of Roadburn 2024. And boy, we’re we right! At Roadburn 2024 Heath brought their combination of psych, prog, and steamy blues rock with a hefty dose of youthful energy to the stage.

The band just released a beautiful mini documentary “Up Close”, where they dive into the thoughts and experiences of the various band members. You can watch the documentary below or at roadburn.com

With Roadburn 2025, we want to galvanize our community. To be a force for unity across subcultures, and as a collective, to look at the horizon of the current and future underground, to keep in mind the past, as well as to examine where we’ve come from and why we’re here. If our ‘why’ at Roadburn is to redefine heaviness, we want to say outright that the underground has no limits. 

Part of what we celebrate each year at Roadburn are those artists and bands who are pushing the envelope – both for themselves and others who’ll follow. In 2025, we’ll extend our hand as ever to those whose passion speaks to our own, and our lineup will navigate a fragmented underground in the name of trying to piece together something whole and new from it. 

With this announcement, you can see some of the kinds of voices we want to amplify and hopefully you will get a sense of the spirit in which Roadburn 2025 is being made behind the scenes. Whether you’re coming for the first time, you’re here every year, you’re playing or attending or just reading a quote on the internet, we want to inspire and to bring people together, to celebrate and renew our beloved underground.

In alphabetical order the new additions to the Roadburn 2025 line up are as follows:

Black Curse: The Colorado-based blackened death metal troupe are set to deliver diabolical evil to Tilburg

Choke Chain: Chicago-based contemporary industrial and dark electro

Cinder Well: Melodic and enchanting folk from an artist with her roots in the DIY punk scene

Concrete Winds: Pure audio annihilation from Helsinki

De Mannen Broeders: Tonnie Dieleman and Colin van Eeckhout join forces as De Mannen Broeders

Denisa: Melancholic melodies from Indonesia-based singer-songwriter

Faetooth: Self described as “fairy doom” hailing from Los Angeles

FIRE!: Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin unite to play avant-garde, experimental jazz

Human Impact: Hook-laden industrial rock featuring members of Unsane and Cop Shoot Cop

LKVGT: Filthy death metal from the Dutch underground

New Age Doom & Tuvaband: The Canadian duo will collaborate with the Norwegian musician, performing cuts from their album, There Is No End.

One Leg One Eye: Raw, experimental noise and folk from Ireland

Ora Cogan: Sweetly psychedelic folk and Americana beautifully fused together.

ØXN: Experimental folk featuring the distinctive vocals of Radie Peat and Katie Kim

Pageninetynine: Iconic hardcore punk from Sterling, Virginia

Ponte Del Diavolo: Turin-based occult metallers, performing their debut album,  Fire Blades From The Tomb, in full

Stress Positions: Chicago’s electrifying hardcore four-piece will make their Roadburn debut

Sumac: The trio will return to Roadburn to perform their contemplative masterpiece, The Healer, in its entirety

The HIRS Collective: Punk rock fury delivered by way of a shapeshifting cast of collaborators.

Roadburn has announced the first three names for the 2025 edition of the festival, which will take place between April 17-20 next year. Noise rock champs Chat Pile will return to Tilburg, and be joined by reunited sludge heroes Kylesa. Altın Gün will bring their psychedelic folk to Roadburn for the first time. Weekend tickets for the festival are on sale now. 

Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers, comments:
“With this announcement comes a first glimpse of what the Roadburn universe will be like in 2025. For this edition, we will look to the horizon of the underground and beyond, exploring the present and discovering the future along the way, while always honouring the past as well.

“We are very excited to have Chat Pile back, to host the long-awaited Kylesa reunion, and to present a set tailor-made for us by psychedelic innovators Altın Gün, who will broaden the scope of the festival.

“The idea of redefining heaviness remains at the heart of Roadburn, and we will keep striving to galvanise our entire community, from artists to attendees, staff and everyone in between.”

Chat Pile have today announced a new single taken from their upcoming sophomore album, Cool World. Amidst continuously growing enthusiasm for the Oklahoma four piece, their return to Roadburn will mark their first show in Europe following the release of Cool World.

Nine years after announcing an indefinite hiatus, Georgia’s Kylesa will return to the live arena, and Roadburn will host their return to European soil. Led by Laura Pleasants and Phillip Cope, the influential sludge band will no doubt be welcomed with open arms by the Roadburn community.

Altın Gün are set to make their Roadburn debut with a tailor-made set that focuses on the darkest, most psychedelic seam of their work. The Grammy-nominated group have dazzled audiences around the world and now they’ll bring their contemporary Turkish folk to Roadburn.

More bands for the 2025 edition of Roadburn are due to be announced in the coming weeks.

Weekend tickets are on sale now, with further ticketing and accommodation options to follow.
For all information including tickets, please visit www.roadburn.com