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To celebrate the band’s first ever live ritual at Roadburn 2008, and their much acclaimed performance at the 2009 festival, we’re are blessed to announce the return of the cult that is The Devil’s Blood for, not one, but two shows at Roadburn Festival 2013.

On Saturday, April 20th, The Devil’s Blood will perform their occult ceremonies acoustically for the first time ever at Het Patronaat, while their fully-fledged, subversive, Pagan jams will reach new heights (or should we say dark depths!?) at the traditional Afterburner event on Sunday, April 21st at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Over the past five years, The Devil’s Blood have not only gained a huge cult following, the band have also been at the forefront of the burgeoning Occult Rock scene by setting a new standard for unearthing the roots of proto-metal as laid down by their unholy forefathers, Black Widow and Coven. The Devil’s Blood‘s creative range includes a visionary blend of dusty psych-garage-rock, ’60s psychedelica, acid-folk-rock and even horror soul, underpinned by beguiling triple guitar harmonies and dripping with obsessively detailed Satanic ritual.

The head-spinning diversity of The Devil’s Blood cult (and occult) has been captured on the Come Reap EP, The Time of No Time Evermore and 2011′s stunning The Thousandfold Epicentre, all of which offer up a golden balance between the band’s forceful danger, but also a sublime, demonic melancholy that guides its audience toward the left hand path.

Roadburn Festival 2013 will run for four days from Thursday, April 18th to Sunday, April 21st, 2013 (the traditional Afterburner event) at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Tickets for the Afterburner are still available!








Behold Roadburn, where the well of psychedelic rock never dries out. We’re excited to announce that Golden Void will bring their classic psych rock to the Roadburn 2013 Afterburner on Sunday, April 21st at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Golden Void is a supergroup of sorts featuring members of Eyes (Aaron Morgan and Justin Pinkerton), The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound (Camilla Saufly-Mitchell) and Earthless (Isaiah Mitchell).

Steeped in the tradition of Hendrix, Sabbath and Hawkwind, Golden Void‘s S/T debut album, out on Thrill Jockey, is a mind-expanding-rock fan’s wet dream as the band channels the best of pre-punk, heavy 70’s rock: lush canyons of riffs, blazing bluesy guitar solo’s, sweeping melodies, mystical grooves, dream-like slow-motion sequences and awesome face-melting musicianship that will blast you straight into the stratosphere. Enter the Void! Roadburn, are you ready?






“Firstly, raise your withered stumps and welcome ye brothers of the bong, Richmond, Virginia bruisers and losers…(cue intro to Sweet Leaf)… Cough… rising through the fog like resin-zombies the appropriately named band are the epitome of evil stoned doom”, says Electric Wizard‘s Jus Oborn. “Violent, bleak and wasted… Ritual Abuse was genius… burnout and clogged with resin. We loved it!! Since then we have had many late night smokeouts with these kindred spirits and hopefully many, many more. The Acid Orgy will be heavily laced with Smoke…Hail Cough!!!”

“Once there was a legend of black cloaked cultists that haunted 1960s London, ominous and dark wearing strange occult symbols”, Jus continues, “They handed out bizarre literature linking Satan, Lucifer and Christ …Hells Angels were our saviours working for God and Lucifer to cleanse our world. They became linked to the Manson Killings and eventually disappeared in infamy to only be remembered by a chosen few …now Dave Nuss and Sabbath Assembly recreate the rituals and liturgies of this infamous group. We can now see and hear the true vision of this paradoxical acid consciousness cult. Hail Satan, Amen?!”

“Also we have young blood for the growing acid cult… a new power trio of Finnish maniacs that deal in real heavy doom: Tombstoned“, says Jus, “We witnessed them live only a few weeks ago and were blown away (yes…they defiantly had feel of our favourite Finnish band). Heavy and cool as the grave, absolutely no pretense or hipster styling, just solid and real doom music played by people who don’t care what you think. You will fuckin love em!!!! Hail Tombstoned!”

Even More Incredible bands to be announced SOON !!!









We’re excited to announce that Dirk Serries will bring his ambient sound sculptures to Roadburn Festival 2013 on Thursday, April 18th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Since his first releases by way of vidnaObmana in the early ’80s, and later as Fear Falls Burning (2005 – 2012), uncompromising Belgian artist Dirk Serries has garnered respect from and invitations to collaborate with recognised musicians like Steven Wilson, Steve Von Till, Justin Broadrick, Cult Of Luna and Alan Sparhawk of Low.
Fascinated by the power of purity, he has built a reputation for building a personal galaxy of harmony and dissonance through dense kaleidoscopes of slowly unfolding motives. Now, Dirk Serries no longer considers it necessary to hide behind alter-egos. Confident enough to operate under his own name, he’s currently creating a perfect sonic space by the simplest of musical material – a minor arpeggio or a simple loop engaged in dialogue with digital processing only to sculpt ambient drone, huge in scale and monumental in lyrical sophistication.

Dirk Serries upcoming second microphonics album is a further refinement of this approach. Eschewing stereotypical genre exercises, Serries refuses to be labeled as a guitarist, wielding his instrument in a way that never denies its original tonal colours, while bringing out the unique intimacy of his music.





Last Roadburn Festival, Finland’s nature-mystics, Hexvessel, had been garnering rave reviews from the media and fans alike with their debut album Dawnbearer. One of the biggest revelations of the festival, they hinted towards a sound from their forthcoming second album that both surprised and excited the audience.

It was that September-released follow-up album, No Holier Temple, which fuses the acoustic 70s folk vibe of its predecessor into a more psychedelic, doom-folk sound, juxtaposed with deep ecology, like the thinking man’s acid-rock, that has caused a real stir and gave rise to the idea that we just might need to invite them back to Roadburn 2013.

Reaching what Metal Hammer Magazine describes as “portals” of “spirit-trafficking menace” and “moments of transcendent beauty,” About.com calls their new album “a cult-born liturgy for all who appreciate nature’s splendor.” With Rock-A-Rolla Magazine dubbing it “an ever-shifting beast, floating between unhurried bliss and fevered rapture.”
Prog Magazine identifies it containing nods towards “the Beatles, HP Lovecraft and King Crimson,” whilst reminding that they have created “their own world, both whimsical yet also biting.” Soundi Magazine, from their Finnish homeland, even calls the band “the Black Sabbath of this decade.”





Portland, OR’s Witch Mountain will bring their crushing doom to Roadburn Festival 2013 on Friday, April 19th at Het Patronaat in Tilburg, Holland.

Founded by guitarist Rob Wrong and drummer Nate Carson in 1997, this was not yet the Witch Mountain that would come to fruition. In 2009, the addition of vocalist Uta Plotkin transformed the band into something extraordinary with her bluesy, sensual and commanding voice as captured on both South of Salem (2011) and Cauldron of the Wild (2012).

Plotkin’s powerful and soulful pipes sound almost out of place, but this is exactly what makes Witch Mountain so special. She belts out the band’s massive, doomy, bluesy tunes like a metallized Janis Joplin or the lost sister of Heart‘s Ann and Nancy Wilson who chose the left-hand path.

Distilled from thick churning down-tuned guitars and dense infused with Plotkin’s sad and sweet vocals, Witch Mountain lumbers without plodding and soars without drifting off. The epic sound and unique take on doom metal has earned them both a highly acclaimed reputation and a rightful place among the current crop of wickedly talented female-fronted bands. We are super stoked to welcome Witch Mountain to the Roadburn Festival during their first-ever European tour.

“2012 has been the biggest and best of Witch Mountain’s 15 year history”, says Nate Carson, “Two successful headlining American tours, two albums on Profound Lore, a new single, Scion Rock Fest (with Sleep and Saint Vitus), and now this.”

“It is truly an honor to end this year with the official announcement that we will finally tour Europe. Many thanks go out from us to Roadburn for this fantastic invitation. My only concern is that Cauldron of the Wild LP pre-orders are coming in so quickly that we may run out of vinyl before we get over there! Cheers!”






We’re very pleased to announce that C R O W N will bring their massive slab of industrial-doom-noise to Roadburn Festival 2013 on Thursday, April 18th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Hailing from France, C R O W N, are two men and a machine who tune their neutron guitars to the Richter scale, and deliver the sound of a molten universe collapsing. Touching on early Isis, Godflesh, Floor and even Killing Joke, C R O W N explore the depths of slow tempos on their debut album, The One, and their split EP with St Valley through sheer exuberant heaviness.

The duo’s depth-charging guitars and buried melodic tendencies snake around hissing electronics, a tribal / military percussive thwack, and the splashing cymbals of a minimal-yet-completely-effective drum-machine. Their sound is further emboldened by a massive bestial roar, heavy and oppressive, leading to an abyss of nothingness…. Welcome to the dark, spiraling, and obscure experiments of C R O W N.

Dear Roadburn visitor,

We are looking forward to welcome you next week at this year's Roadburn Festival. We are making the final preparations for what will be a great edition of Roadburn. Tilburg is getting ready: flags are hung up throughout the city, the routing to the different places and venues are being made as we speak, and some extra beer has been stocked and chilled.

One thing, however, has changed in Tilburg. The soft drugs policy, which was already a bit confusing (hash and weed are neither legal nor illegal; they are tolerated in small quantities for personal use), remains the same in Holland. However, to further complicate things a few cities, including Tilburg, have introduced a new rule; you must be a Dutch resident in order to be able to buy weed or hash. So it’s still OK if you have a small amount of either one on you, or when you smoke some, but unless you have a Dutch ID card you won’t be able to buy it (yourself) in the koffieshops/ coffeeshops.

So as the nice, polite, law-abiding and decent people we are, we wouldn’t recommend that you stock up on these things in other cities like Utrecht, Amsterdam, Den Bosch or Arnhem that you might be traveling through (coffeeshops in these cities still sell to anyone). Neither would we suggest that you make some Dutch friends at Roadburn who can perhaps provide you with the aformentioned substances. But remember, this is Holland, so in the end there will never be a problem even if you're caught by the police (who are not keen on going after small sellers).

Having said that; see you next week, have a good trip!
Walter on behalf of Jurgen, Yvonne, Roadburn and the 013 venue