2019’s Roadburn Festival boasts a strong lineup of ten magnetic musicians, including curator Tomas Lindberg, Have A Nice Life, and headliners Sleep, who return to the festival for two career-spanning sets.
The focus will be on material off their iconic album Holy Mountain, including some bonus tracks and surprises.
As curator, it will be up to Tomas Lindberg to place his own stamp onto the festival, Lindberg looks to do so under the banner The Burning Darkness.
He is best known for his work with At The Gates and Disfear, Skitsystem and Lock Up as well as his work with The Great Deceiver. Lindberg’s event will take place over multiple stages over the course of two days.
Have a Nice Life will also play two shows at Roadburn with one show dedicated to Deathconsciouness and another “regular” show, to take advantage of their two-day double feature. Alongside these groups, there will be appearances from highly anticipated groups such as:
BIRDS IN ROW
VILE CREATURE
MIDNIGHT
HEILUNG
LOUISE LEMÓN
GORE
An annual event in Tilburg, Netherlands since 1999, Roadburn continues position itself as the premiere event the spans the entire spectrum of heavy rock and experimental music.
Ticket information for Roadburn 2019 will follow in the coming weeks. To relive the music and mayhem of Roadburn 2018, the Roadburn 2018 documentary made by Never Mind The Hype is available to watch HERE. To listen to the 2018 audio streams courtesy of 3voor12, click HERE.
UPDATE (9/13): There have been several new additions to Roadburn’s 2019 roster. First up is Cave In, who will return to the festival for a full band set a year after playing acoustically following bassist Caleb Scofield’s tragic death. Also announced is another band to feature the late Scofield, Old Man Gloom (fronted by Aaron Turner).
Thou will artist in residence for the festival. Avant-garde metal band Imperial Triumphant will make an appearance at Roadburn 2019, joining a lineup that includes Sleep, Gore and Have a Nice Life. According to a press release, the band’s set will be a “full exploration into” their album Vile Luxury. Other acts announced for the festival include Drab Majesty, Daughters, Henrik Palm, Mord ‘A’ Stigmata, Messa, Wolvennest, Ulcerate and Gold.
UPDATE (10/2): Roadburn has added more acts to its 2019 lineup. Today’s addition are shows from At The Gates and Anna von Hausswolff. These sets are part of At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg’s curated event.
UPDATE (10/25): Roadburn has announced yet another big addition to its stellar 2019 lineup. Perhaps most exciting is a special folk set from one of mxdwn’s favorite artists, Myrkur. Another favorite of the site, Marissa Nadler, will also join the festival with her idiosyncratic, dark take on folk music.
Another notable addition includes Mono playing with Jo Quail Quartet performing Hymn to the Immortal Wind as a part of Tomas Lindberg’s specially-curated event. Joining them as one of the bands hand-selected by Lindberg is Agrimonia, Orchestra of Constant Distress (featuring members of Skull Defekts) and Gösta Berlings Saga.
Another addition to the festival is the Holy Roar event, during which bands from the heavy music label will play at the Hall of Fame venue. These bands include Svalbard, Pijn, Conjurur, Secret Cutter and A.A. Williams. Black Bombaim and Peter Brötzmann, Bliss Signal, Blossk, Crypt Trip, Malokarpatan, Morne, Mythic Sunship, Rakta, Stuck in Motion, Territoire and The End are other additions. Petbrick, a project of Soufly and ex-Sepultura member Iggor Cavalera will play a set by themselves as well as with Deaf Kids (who are also playing a set alone).
UPDATE (11/7): Roadburn has announced yet another addition to what is shaping up to be a great lineup for 2019. Triptykon, the current band of Thomas Gabriel Fischer will be performing Celtic Frost’s unfinished work Requiem at the festival. For those that are unaware, Fischer was also the leader of Celtic Frost.
According to Fischer, the album Requiem was intended to be a three-piece composition that would be included on various Celtic Frost full-lengths as well as together as an EP (which he hoped to release as early as 1988). However, only two elements were completed (“Rex Irae” and “Winter”) because of differing opinions with their label about releasing the experimental work. He adds that these issues even lead to the dissolution of Celtic Frost in 1987.
The second section of Requiem to be completed (but the third in the intended sequence) was written in 2002 after Celtic Frost had reunited and 16 years after the first composition had been completed. That left the middle section to be completed, which was planned following the release of Monotheist. Unfortunately the band dissolved yet again, leaving it once again indefinitely incomplete.
Fischer planned to complete it one day with Triptykon. Then, the folks at Roadburn approached him with the idea of using the festival as the place to unveil the completed three part project. They provided the resources he needed to complete it.
“The three parts of the Requiem will therefore be performed by Triptykon at Roadburn 2019, with full classical orchestration, congregated specifically for this occasion by Florian Magnus Maier, who is our esteemed classical collaborator and arranger in this project, and whose patience with me appears to be limitless,” he said. “We feel very proud and deeply honoured to be joined in this endeavour by the renowned Dutch Metropole Orkest.”
UPDATE (11/15): The drumbeat of incredible heavy artists playing Roadburn 2019 continues with the announcement of even more great musicians. SUMAC, the band of former Isis leader Aaron Turner, will be performing at the festival on the heels of their great new album Love In Shadow, promising a very special performance. Other additions include Cave, Crippled Black Phoenix, Young Widows and Lingua Ignota. Particularly exciting is the announcement that Emma Ruth Rundle will return to the festival after performing in 2017. Rundle released one of, if not the, best albums of 2019 with her dark post-folk opus On Dark Horses.
Also performing are Fear Falls Burning, Jaye Jayle, Ovtrenoir, Sherpa, Soft Kill, Throane and Treha Sektori. Exile on Mainstream will be celebrating the label’s 15th anniversary with a special takeover of the hall of fame venue, with performances by Ostinato, Noisepicker, Conny Ochs, Treedeon, Bellrope and Confusion Master. Lastly, joining At The Gates’ frontman Tomas Lindberg’s curated event will be Loop and SLÆGT.
UPDATE (1/24): Roadburn has announced its final additions for the 2019 lineup, wrapping up a season of announcements that began way back in August 2018.
The announcement kicks off with one more band playing At The Gates’ Tomas Lindberg’s The Burning Darkness curated event is the Swedish metal band Craft. Also included in this round is experimental metal band BOSSE-DE-NAGE, Los Angeles experimental duo Street Sects, post-metal band Glerakur, Melissa Guion performing as MJ Guider, blackened folk band L’Acephale and black metal band Grey Aura. They’ve also announced the opening party, called Ignition, which will feature performances by Temple Fang and Hellripper. As always, check out the incredible artwork for these artists below:
Photo credit: Mauricio Alvarado
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