Pelican Added To Roadburn Festival Lineup
Posted on Thursday, October 27th, 2011
We’re excited to announce that seminal instru-metal pioneers Pelican have been added to the lineup of Roadburn 2012. Pelican last played Roadburn in the Green Room back in 2007, and will now appear on our main stage as part of their first European tour in several years.
Pelican is a monument to the RIFF. A glorious, majestic Riff that crashes down upon you in its relentless energy. Seeking, probing, moving, changing, resolving and reforming. A totemic monolith of electric guitar melody overlayed with countermelody, feinting and ducking the rhythm one moment and embracing it in the next… a force as undeniable as a flash flood… building and churning and frothing into a frenzy. To try and deny this energy is not just futile, it is foolish. You must meet this force with force, head on, squared up, and fully prepared to be taken wherever Pelican decides to take you.
Pelican will play on Saturday, April 14th, 2012 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.
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Making their fourth appearance in 5 years at the festival, it looks like Japan’s serial-killer-obsessed seekers of the almighty riff Church of Misery are poised to become the offficial Roadburn house band. All joking aside, Church of Misery were among THE highlights of the previous Roadburn festivals (even the main stage almost proved way to small for them), and Roadburn 2012 will mark their triumphant return, on the main stage again (of course!), together with Sleep and The Obsessed on Saturday, April 14th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.
Los Angeles based psychedelic rock quintet Ancestors will be making a highly anticipated return to Roadburn for the 2012 Festival. On their latest EP, Invisible White, Ancestors tamped down their surging stoner rock leanings in favour of a more cinematic approach with long moog / modular synth workouts very much reminiscent of Pink Floyd circa Meddle and Live at Pompeii. Charting a new course for the band’s progressive, colourful sounds, Ancestors will get the chance to reprise their stunning 2010 Roadburn performance, this time supporting the release of a new, much anticipated album. Ancestors will play on Thursday, April 14th at the Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland.
Sweden’s Horisont will return to Roadburn after their highly acclaimed 2010 performance. Unfortunately, they ended up going on at the same time as Witchcraft due to last-minute timetable changes (don’t mention the
volcano!) and many people missed it. This time, Horisont will play the Green Room instead of the Bat Cave on Thursday, April 12th at the 013 venue.
If you are an avid heavy 70s aficionado you will definitely dig Sweden’s Horisont. They excel at crafting old school bluesy hard rock influenced by the likes of Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath and November. The fact that the lyrics are sung in Swedish and English adds to band’s appeal. Horisont’s debut album Tva Sidor av Horisonten (“Two Sides of Horisont”) easily ranks among the very best stoner rock albums of 2009 and earned them lots of new fans and a deal with Rise Above Records, which will be releasing their new album.
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Battering your aural nerve endings with the blackest sludge mainlined from the depths of hell, Dragged Into Sunlight evokes pure horror in a manner making Dennis Nilsen seem sane. With Billy Anderson at the helm of their debut album, Hatred for Mankind, is a masterpiece devoid of everything, descending into relentless sonic hell.
Dragged Into Sunlight is NOT a band for the weak – this is thick, sweeping riffage by the ounce, hellish vocals and thundering, redlined tom-heavy drums that ripsaw their way into your guts, causing blunt force trauma that only the select few could ever endure. Only the most downright Roadburners will be able to handle such a soundscape of total negativity aesthetic. We’re up for it! Are you?
Dragged Into Sunlight, along with technical thrash metal legends Coroner, Bongripper and Fleshpress will appear on Sunday, April 15th at the 013 venue, Tilburg, Holland.
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Christian Mistress is a modern American Heavy Metal band hailing from the rain swept streets of Olympia, Washington in the Pacific Northwest region of the US. Live Christian Mistress performances are atavistic communions of denim and sweat invoked in the Marshall temple. Do you remember when music was a ritual of raw passion and electrical amplification was the shrine? These soulful disciples offer up timeless headbanging anthems that do not look back with irony or pretense but boldly march in reverse toward the future. This is the path to the electric altar, do you remember? Electricity is King. All hail the Mistress!
Christian Mistress will appear on Thursday, April 12th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.
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Op woensdag 19 januari 2011 09:49 schreef Rossdale het volgende: Liz is gewoon een wandelende gamesencyclopedie :P