Promoters of the ROADBURN 2012 FESTIVAL set to take place 4/12-15, 2012 @ 013 venue Tliburg, Holland have confirmed URFAUST, HAMMER OF MISFORTUNE, LORD VICAR, VOIVOD and more acts.
FROM URFAUST:
We are proud to let you know that we will bring our Ritual of Madness to Roadburn 2012!
VIDEO BELOW: URFAUST: "Unter Töchtern Der Wüste":
FROM ROADBURN 2012 PROMOTERS:
Dutch outsider black metal / doom experimenters Urfaust will be appearing at Roadburn‘s 2012 Afterburner on Sunday, April 15th in Tilburg, Holland. As long time fans of the band, we are ecstatic that they will be playing a rare live show and bringing their totally unique musical vision to the festival. Last year’s Der Freiwillige Bettler was the strongest album of the bands career and a truly groundbreaking album that ripped up any neat and tidy genre classifications by blurring the lines of black metal, doom and ambient into a potent, highly original style of metal.
We’re excited to announce that Hammers of Misfortune have been confirmed for the Thursday Roadburn date, Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Led by the driven, outspoken John Cobbett (also of Ludicra fame), San Francisco, CA-based progressive metal band Hammers of Misfortune borrow elements from hard rock and folk, doom and thrash, and amalgamates those elements into a sound of their own.
Dutch outsider black metal / doom experimenters Urfaust will be appearing at Roadburn‘s 2012 Afterburner on Sunday, April 15th in Tilburg, Holland. As long time fans of the band, we are ecstatic that they will be playing a rare live show and bringing their totally unique musical vision to the festival.
We’re really excited to announce that Lord Vicar, Orchid and Sigiriya have been added to the line-up for Roadburn festival 2012, set for Thursday, April 12th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.
As curator for the 17th edition of the Roadburn Festival, Voivod will transport you into Dimension Hatröss as part of their special headline show during the Au-delà du Réel event on Friday, April 13, 2012. As if the promise of the band’s classic fourth album in its entirety performed live for the first time ever wasn’t enough, the set will conclude with a not-to-be-missed surprise.
Led by Mike Scheidt’s crushing doom riffage and relentless stomp, psychedelic doom metal giants YOB will return to Roadburn Festival 2012 for two one-off performances, each time performing an album in it’s entirety. YOB was originally scheduled to play the 2011 festival, but their European tour got postponed til September / October, regrettably forcing the band to cancel. Now, YOB has been personally invited by Voivod for Au-delà du Réel at Roadburn 2012. For their first show, they will be playing their seminal album, The Unreal Never Lived, on Friday, April 13th at Au-delà du Réel, and then in order to reach the greatest of heights (and doom depths), they will follow up by performing Catharsis in full at the additional Afterburner event on Sunday, April 15th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.
Black Breath and Celeste are the latest confirmed acts for Voivod‘s Au-delà du Réel at Roadburn 2o12. They will join Anekdoten, Aun, Dopethrone and YOB on Friday, April 13th.
Beer-driven, groove-heavy hard rock are what Portland’s finest, Red Fang, deliver on their latest opus, Murder the Mountains. Catchy, fun, cool, and downright awesome, Red Fang bring a welcome return to great rock that still has a sense of humor. Roadburn is extremely proud to welcome Red Fang to Midi Theatre on Thursday, April 12.
We’re excited to announce that Black Cobra will be playing a one-off show at Roadburn Festival Afterburner in support of their new album, Invernal.
Roadburn Festival 2012 will run for four days from Thursday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15 (the traditional Afterburner) at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Pre-sales will start Saturday, November 26th, 2011.
As curator for the 17th edition of the Roadburn Festival, Voivod will transport you into Dimension Hatröss as part of their special headline show during the Au-delà du Réel event on Friday, April 13, 2012. As if the promise of the band’s classic fourth album in its entirety performed live for the first time ever wasn’t enough, the set will conclude with a not-to-be-missed surprise.
Progressive thrash? Thrashing prog? Call it what you like, Dimension Hatröss is a rarity: a concept album that stands the test of time. In fact, the original storyline has been eclipsed by reality, rendering it not so much a fantastic sci-fi trip as an uncomfortably prescient account of the world today. Divided into eight chapters, the album covers everything from the quest to create a utopian society in the face of technocratic and theocratic governments to terrorism and mind control. Plus, it rocks! It rocks in that uniquely hypnotic flight of the space bumblebee way that hums Voivod! at every dissonant turn.
In the book Worlds Away, drummer and artist Michel “Away” Langevin fondly recalls: “…around the era of Dimension Hatross, the music was so complicated we almost didn’t have any interaction with the crowd anymore because we were concentrating so hard on our instruments.”
Today, blower bass maestro Jean-Yves “Blacky” Theriault interacts with the crowd to the point of jumping into the fray mid-song without missing a beat, while consummate frontman Denis “Snake” Belanger adds theatrics. And anyone who witnessed one or more of their blistering shows during the 2011 European tour can testify that guitarist Dan “Chewy” Mongrain positively thrives on the complexity originally crafted by the late great Denis “Piggy” D’Amour.
But what exactly is a Hatröss? In a 1988 interview with Sounds, Away explained: “‘Hatross’ is a word I created from the English word ‘hate’ and the French word ‘atroce,’ from which ‘atrocity’ is derived.” He added, “The music had to be a bit weird for this album, although we kept the heaviness of it.”
Experience Voivod’s Dimension Hatröss in all of its weird and heavy glory for yourself on Friday, April 13, 2012.
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
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