Roadburn announces first names for 2024 including The Jesus and Mary Chain, Chelsea Wolfe, Lankum and clipping.
Having already announced KHANATE for the 2024 edition of the festival, Roadburn has today made its first broader line up announcement, including THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, CHELSEA WOLFE, LANKUM, and CLIPPING. Roadburn 2024 will take place between 18-21 April in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers, comments:
“With this announcement, we are diving straight into the heart of what Roadburn 2024 is about. These artists that we are proud to unveil today are all of great significance for what the festival has become in recent times. We feel these artists represent the broad scope of Roadburn. With the first of the commissioned music projects also being revealed, we are as always, looking firmly into the future as well, presenting entirely new music. This is the start of many great things to come.”
It’s simply not possible to capture the true essence of THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN within a few words. They are a band who have made such an impact on the world within which Roadburn operates, their legend feels outsized, too large to fully comprehend. The Jesus and Mary Chain offer up a heady blend of fuzz and melody as a transportation device; whisking us a way to a different time and place of rose-tinted romance, wistful existentialism and just the right dose of hedonism.
Alongside the announcement of a new CHELSEA WOLFE album, we’re thrilled to reveal plans for her return to mainland Europe – at Roadburn 2024. In the twelve years since her first Roadburn appearance, this already remarkable artist has blossomed into an unstoppable force. As a songwriter and consummate creative entity incorporating evocative songwriting and unparalleled artistic vision, Chelsea Wolfe wraps the entire package in an ethereal, shimmering bow.
To witness LANKUM live is an intimate experience – no matter the size of the room. The four Irish musicians on stage play a dizzying array of instruments between them and possess a deep understanding of traditional folk, an appreciation of heaviness and deft hand for putting a twist on what has gone before them in the folk genre.
Experimental hip hop trio CLIPPING will make their Roadburn debut in 2024. A force to be reckoned with in the live arena, their minimalist onstage aesthetic belies the sonic complexities that they effuse. Experimenting with confrontation and heaviness within hip hop is part of what makes Clipping so exciting, and to our ears, makes them a band that belongs at the heart of what we do at Roadburn.
The first commissioned performance of 2024 to be announced will be crafted by the hand of MAT MCNERNEY. Music for Gloaming: A Nocturne by the Hexvessel Folk Assembly will be an entirely original composition, written and performed exclusively at Roadburn 2024. Evoking night-time mysticism, a realm where daylight bows to advancing darkness, unraveling both the external twilight tapestry and the internal landscapes of memory and thought, this commissioned work promises to be something truly special.
Additionally, HEXVESSEL will perform their latest album, Polar Veil in full at Roadburn 2024. On this striking release, a majestic shroud of black metal grandiosity is overlaid upon heaving doom and psychedelic flourishes that capture what is at the heart of Hexvessel.
Los Angeles based ecstatic black metal group, AGRICULTURE, will make their European debut at Roadburn, flying in for an exclusive one-off performance.
Mysterious Dutch black metal band, FLUISTERAARS will play their second ever show – their first in mainland Europe – at Roadburn, showcasing what has made them such an integral part of the underground black metal scene for so many years.
CLOAKROOM will bring their particular take on interplanetary exploration to Tilburg, playing tracks from their latest album, Dissolution Wave and more.
With the promise of a new album on the horizon, melancholic black metallers DÖDSRIT will return to Roadburn this coming April.
Delivering a dose of bloodsoaked blasphemy, DEVIL MASTER will make their Roadburn debut, traveling from Philadelphia to bring their malevolent magick to the masses.
The artwork for Roadburn 2024 has been unveiled; a striking video created by French artist, David Fitt is available to view in full via the Roadburn website. This extraordinarily talented French artist has been on our radar for some time now, and we had the great honour of hosting an exhibition of his portraits at Roadburn 2023. From there our appreciation for his work blossomed into a creative relationship that has resulted in the work that we’re thrilled to present to represent the 2024 edition of the festival. Read more about David’s artwork for Roadburn HERE.
4-day tickets for Roadburn 2024 are now on sale. Other ticket options – including single day tickets and accommodation – will follow on November 3. More artists will be announced in the coming weeks. For all information including tickets, please visit www.roadburn.com
Introducing our brand-new podcast, Roadburn: Essential Stories.
Roadburn 2024: underground futurism
For the first time ever, this year we started the ticket sales right after the festival, without any bands announced. So many of you have bought tickets already, and that continued support is really overwhelming. Once again, thank you dearly. The faith and trust you have put in us is truly heartwarming and encouraging, and it has been a constant inspiration for our work behind the scenes for next year’s edition.
We want Roadburn 2024 to reflect our very own “underground futurism” approach, to be a showcase for the current underground, inspired by the past but firmly looking into the future as well. We will be pushing boundaries of what heavy is and can be. We expect this to be a hallmark edition, a sonic adventure we’ll embark on together.
Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow, as we will have a special standalone announcement of a band that makes us very proud, and that will mark the actual starting point of Roadburn 2024.
As you all know, booking is more complicated post-pandemic than it used to be, so please bear with us for future announcements and know we are grateful for your patience. We can’t wait to see you all in Tilburg on April 18th-21st.
Walter, on behalf of Roadburn
Roadburn 2024 artwork courtesy of the incredibly talented David Fitt
Roadburn 2023: Audio streams for Cave In, Wolves In The Throne Room, Chat Pile and more
Re-live Roadburn 2023 with the new batch of audio streams recorded at last year’s festival – including Cave In, DeWolff, Chat Pile, Wolves In the Throne Room and more!
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.
Listen to the two career defining sets of Deafheaven at Roadburn 2023!
Deafheaven took Roadburn by storm this April with two career defining sets. Kicking off with Sunbather on the Thursday, and rounding out Friday with Infinite Granite. The audio from both sets was recorded by Marcel van de Vondervoort and his team and is now available to listen to for free thanks to VPRO 3voor12. Deafheaven will continue their Sunbather 10 year anniversary celebrations through until the end of the year.
Producer: Marcel van de Vondervoort
Relive the Backxwash European debut at Roadburn 2023!
Back in April Roadburn hosted the incomparable Backxwash for two special shows in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The audio recordings of these shows are now available to listen to via VPRO 3voor12.
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 a true highlight from the Roadburn vaults.
Producer: Marcel van de Vondervoort
See you at Roadburn 2024
With the end of Roadburn on the horizon, we wanted to take just a moment to reflect and say thank you for the incredible shared experience we’ve all been through these last four days. We’ve never experienced an atmosphere quite like this at Roadburn before – everybody is so relaxed, open-hearted and curious to discover something new.
Roadburners have been so willing to take the plunge and jump into the unknown with us – and found new sounds and new connections, both on and off the stages.
We’re grateful for the trust that you put in us. And the trust we – together – have put in the artists to deliver exceptional shows has paid off a thousandfold. We’re proud that Roadburn has always been recognised for the high level performances that artists deliver here, but this year to us it seems that bar has been raised even further than before. Artists have pushed their creative boundaries in so many new and exciting directions and as a consequence have also expanded the boundaries of what Roadburn is and can be in the future.
The future of Roadburn is an exciting thing to contemplate, and this weekend has proven how willing the Roadburn community is to go on an exploratory journey with us. The community that surrounds us gives us strength, inspiration and support in equal measure – the value of which is limitless.
For those of you who already know that you want to be here with us next year, tickets for Roadburn 2024 will go on sale tomorrow at noon CEST. They’ll be priced the same as the 2023 tickets (including service fees) until June 3rd.
Over the coming weeks will continue to process all that we’ve seen, heard and felt, and we’re looking forward to welcoming you back to Roadburn again next year. It will be here before you know it.
– Walter on behalf of Roadburn and the 013 venue.
Roadburn 2023: Through The Lens of Niels Vinck
A small glimpse of Roadburn 2023 through the lens of Niels Vinck fotografeert
Niels Vinck is a familiar face to Roadburners – he’s photographed the festival for many years now and can often be found rushing between shows to capture the action. His vibrant images seem to distill the ambience of each performance, whether it’s spellbound rapture or frenzied energy. Here is a selection of his photos from Roadburn 2023. More of his work can be viewed HERE.
Curious about Alkahest?
They’re one of the youngest bands to play Roadburn, and they’ve only been together a couple of months. This clip gives a taster of what they’re all about – so brace yourselves for their performance next month!
Alkahest is the result of a collaboration between Metal Factory and Roadburn to foster future talent and give a platform to promising young artists.
Video premiere: John Cxnnor X The Devil's Trade - 'Three Orphans'
Check out the video premiere of a track from the upcoming John Cxnnor X The Devil’s Trade live album
As we get ever closer to Roadburn 2023, one of the artists that we’re highly anticipating is John Cxnnor – we commissioned them to create and perform an original composition for this year’s festival. We knew they’d be up to the challenge after witnessing their absolute commitment and stunning live show at Roadburn 2022 where they collaborated with The Devil’s Trade.
The combination of John Cxnnor’s Terminator-inspired industrial soundscapes and Dávid Makó’s evocative, haunting vocals made for a heady mix – and a performance that left people talking about it for the rest of the weekend. We’re thrilled that the performance was captured and will live on through the release of a live album due for release next month via Pelagic Records.
Today we can share one of the tracks they performed last year – with accompanying video. If you were there then this is your chance to relive this amazing show, and if you’re just discovering the world of John Cxnnor then consider this your welcome…
John Cxnnor X The Devil’s Trade – Live at Roadburn will be released on April 21, 2023. Pre-order here.