Dutch extreme music festival Roadburn has always hosted special one-off acts and collaborations over the years, and 2019 is no exception. Today, as a part of a large update to the upcoming festival’s schedule, a new collaborative project has been announced. Aaron Turner, founder and owner of Hydra Head Records and of course the main-man behind post-metal pioneers ISIS and his current main gig Sumac, will be joining up with Will Brooks and Dennis Tyfus in a new project called DOOLHOF (which is Dutch for “maze”).
Brooks is probably best known by his stage name MC dälek, the namesake for East Coast experimental hip-hop collective dälek. Tyfus is an audio/visual artist from Belgium who is also behing the experimental label Ultra Eczema. Brooks will serve as the vocalist of DOOLHOF while Turner will handle guitars and Tyfus will be on tapes. All three members contribute electronic instrumentation to the project — though according to a post by dälek on Facebook, the band members at this point don’t have any idea what DOOLHOF will sound like. The band is scheduled to perform on Saturday, April 13.
MC dälek has played the festival last year with dälek, a booking which the festival’s site suggests was “instrumental in expanding the scope of the festival.” Sumac is scheduled to play the festival on Saturday the 13th as well and Turner’s other band Old Man Gloom will be performing on Sunday the 14 of April.
Sumac released a pair of albums in 2018, first was a collaboration with Japanese noise artist Keiji Haino on American Dollar Bill: Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On, released in February. The second was an album by Sumac alone, the more traditionally titled Love In Shadow, released in September. The band, which also features members bassist Brian Cook (also of Botch and Russian Circles) and drummer Nick Yacyshyn, will be on tour in the United States at the beginning of 2019 before heading abroad for the festival, which is hosted at Tillberg, The Netherlands.
In other recent Turner-related news, ISIS reunited as Celestial for one-off performance at a benefit for late Cave In bassist Caleb Scofield. ISIS called it quits in 2010 after releasing Wavering Radiant, an album that saw the band expand on its post-metal sound and incorporate more progressive metal tendencies.
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