Essential Sounds: 08.10.21
October 8, 2021
After an unscheduled week off, the Roadburn Essential Sounds playlist has returned in triumphant form – taking an exploratory dive through multiple moods and genres. As ever, we sincerely hope you find something that makes your day just that little bit more enjoyable.
If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:
Tanya Tagaq – Tongues
(Six Shooter Records) (Header image)
The Body x Big ‡ Brave – Hard Times
(Thrill Jockey)
Marissa Nadler – Couldn’t Have Done the Killing
(Bella Union)
Phoebe Bridgers – That Funny Feeling
(Dead Oceans)
Grouper – Ode to the blue
(Kranky)
Grivo – Trammel
(Church Road Records)
Kælan Mikla x Alcest – Hvítir Sandar
(Artoffact Records)
Enslaved – Ruun II – The Epitaph
(Nuclear Blast)
Timelost x Failure – Lifer Death
(Church Road Records)
Kayo Dot – The Necklace
(Prophecy Productions)
Blood Moon (Converge x Chelsea Wolfe) – Blood Moon
(Epitaph)
Okkultokrati – Wolfssegen
(Rapid Eye Records)
Full of Hell – Reeking Tunnels
(Relapse Records)
Portrayal of Guilt – …Where the suffering never ends
(Run For Cover Records)
Botch – Japam
(Sargent House)
Roadburn 2022: Official Artwork - Valreza Collective
September 30, 2021
At Roadburn music and visual art is tightly bound together; visual accompaniment to sonic exploration provides a more immersive experience that we wholeheartedly embrace. In keeping with what has become a festival tradition, we’re thrilled to announce the visual artists leaving their mark on Roadburn 2022.
The Finnish Valreza Collective is a new endeavour – created in summer 2020 – but featuring two artists who have extensive experience and unrestrained vision. Tekla Vály and Tereza Holubová are multidisciplinary creatives who utilise photography, sculpture, film, costume and performance to create eerie pieces that explore both darkness and light, horror and joy – and more specifically, they often navigate the places where those opposites intersect.
Roadburn 2022 will be an edition like no other; created in an uncertain landscape for the live music industry but shaped with optimism. The visual representation of the festival’s approach required a creative mindset that could tap into the dichotomy of the current state of flux and design something that captures the passion, vulnerability, darkness, hope, joy, and sheer weight of human emotion that fuels Roadburn. Tekla and Tereza approached the task with enthusiasm and have produced a vivid piece of art.
The full eight minute video can be watched here:
Tekla’s artistry may already be familiar to some Roadburners; she has created album artwork for Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi, Grave Pleasures – Motherblood, Hexvessel – When We Are Death, and most recently for Warning’s Watching from a Distance Live at Roadburn album. Meanwhile, Tereza has exhibited her work in Japan, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Finland.
“Working with Roadburn is a great opportunity for us as an artistic collective to gather more experience and work with a team of professionals in a different field. We are extremely excited, honoured and overall thankful to have this opportunity to represent Roadburn Festival visually.”
Apart from the full video above, a shorter teaser on our social channels comes with sonic accompaniment from Thomas and Milena of GOLD. The otherworldly psychedelia of the celebratory rituals captured on film are full of jubilation and steeped in euphoria. An uncanny undercurrent hints at an unspoken darkness and of supernatural influence.
We’re delighted to present the work of Valreza as part of Roadburn 2022; we wholeheartedly encourage you to immerse yourself in the full eight minute experience and embrace everything that Tekla and Tereza have offered up to us.
Essential Sounds: 24.09.21
September 24, 2021
If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:
Fuming Mouth – They Take What The Please (Nuclear Blast)
Full of Hell – Eroding Shell (Relapse Records)
Papangu – Terra Arrasada (Self-Release)
Succumb – 8 Triagrams (The Flenser)
LLNN – Imperial (Pelagic Records)
Blodet – She Remains (Church Road Records)
Chelsea Wolfe – Woodstock (Sargent House) (Header image)
The Cush – Fly (Mad Bunny Records)
Nothing – La La Means | Love You (Relapse Records)
Kraus – VNC (Terrible Records)
The Holy Road – Against / Social / Media (Outpost 13 Recordings)
Mono – Imperfect Things (Pelagic Records)
Shy, Low – Umbra (Pelagic Records)
Warning – Foot Prints (Live at Roadburn) (Cappio Records)
Essential Sounds: 17.09.21
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)
Essential Sounds: 10.09.21
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)
Essential Sounds: 03.09.21
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)
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: The Lovecraft Sextet: De Mysteriis [Musicorum]
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.
Essential Sounds: 27.08.21
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)
Essential Sounds: 20.08.21
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)
Essential Sounds: 06.08.21
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)