Het Post-Rock topique! #2

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Op donderdag 7 februari 2019 14:59 schreef Xa1pt het volgende:

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Staan Russian Circles and A Silent Whale Becomes A Dream er dit jaar? Zie een beetje wisselende berichten.

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Op donderdag 7 februari 2019 20:31 schreef Faxie het volgende:

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Silent Whale Becomes a Dream maakt hun debuut op Dunk dit jaar. Russian Circles heeft vorig jaar (en 2016) gespeeld, dus ik gok dat ze er dit jaar niet bij zijn.

Ik verwacht Long Distance Calling nog als headliner eigenlijk. Die zijn aan het touren en hebben vorig jaar ook een nieuw album uitgebracht.

Paar andere namen die ik verwacht zijn Celestial Wolves (vorig jaar nieuw album, en bassist is vaste fotograaf bij Dunk dus kent ze goed), Jambinai (hebben 2016 dacht ik afgezegd, maar touren dit jaar ook want zag ze voor best Kept Secret staan), Toundra, GlerAkur (fingers crossed. ze spelen ook op Roadburn dit jaar)

Verder verwacht ik nog een paar Belgische bands als All We Expected, Sons of a Wanted Man, Slow Crush of Endless Dive. Wellicht spelen The End of the Ocean weer (nieuw album), Autism, Somn, Wiegedood, Fire Walk With Us (2e keer, nieuw album vorig jaar) en nog een paar drone artiesten als A-Sun Amissa, Nadja, Thisquietarmy (met band deze keer), Ashtoreth of Stratosphere, en wellicht weer Yodok III.

Mono heeft ook nieuw album, maar die touren dan in de US samen met Emma Ruth Rundle...

Ben benieuwd hoeveel ik er goed heb

Ik vind wel dat de aankondigingen wat traag gaan dit jaar...

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Op donderdag 7 februari 2019 20:42 schreef Xa1pt het volgende:

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Er zitten wel een aantal hele goeie namen tussen. Toundra en Silent Whale Becomes A Dream. Maar geen Russian Circles dus, ik dacht gisteren juist te lezen dat die er wel bij waren. Maar ik gok dat ik m'n techno-georiënteerde-omgeving niet zal kunnen overtuigen om te gaan.

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Op donderdag 7 februari 2019 20:44 schreef Faxie het volgende:

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Misschien las je iets over vorig jaar dan. Ze zijn voor dit jaar in ieder geval niet aangekondigd, en 2 keer achter elkaar lijkt me sterk...

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We are sure everyone is impatiently waiting for some new names for the line-up and we’re of course happy to announce another nice collection of bands for the upcoming edition. In this announcement we have some very interesting music of which most of it is leaning more towards the experimental side of the post-rock scene. But let us look into them one by one before we jump into conclusions here.

Jean D.L. & Karen Willems should ring a bell if you’re not new to the festival. Karen Willems performed for the dunk!audience a few times before and we thought this 15th edition definitely needed this experimental touch. Their new album was recorded in a church where they played with the sound of the space making the album sound mystical. Sounds like the perfect forest show!

Osorezan from Chile is part of the LeRockPsicophonique family who offers the best post-rock from Chile. Dunk!festival will be their first European incursion and they want to make it memorable not just for themselves, but also for all of the attendees that day. They have prepared some darkness that doesn’t suit the faint of heart. Mind your head and ears, these guys will probably crush them if you walk in unaware.

FVNERALS from Belgium will move us even deeper into darkness and the beautiful, haunting vocals of Tiffany Strom will make you want to stay there. After moving from Scotland to Germany to Belgium and taking some time off to write new music they are now back on the road and our forest stage will be a perfect stop to let their doomy, shoegazing post-rock out. Make sure to check their (for now latest) album Wounds.

Jardín de la Croix from Spain has been on our list for quite some time. Not only because they are represented by the excellent Aloud Music label but also because they blew us away at ArcTanGent a little while ago with their heavy progressive post-math-rock. Amazing live band, full of energy which we really need to see on our main stage with a tiny bit of overkill in the tech department.

Tangled Thoughts of Leaving (Australia) is coming back to dunk!festival, following previous visits in 2013 and 2015. They released their third full length album, No Tether, in 2018 in collaboration with Bird's Robe Records and dunk!records. No Tether is an intriguing mix of post-metal, doom-jazz and prog - and this tour will be the very first time it is played for audiences outside Australia. Don't miss this intriguing, beguiling and heavy-hitting show!

The Quiver

OSOREZAN - Virgen Santa | #CicloLeRock

FVNERALS - Live at Sonic Grave, (Wounds + Shiver) 2017

Jardin de la Croix - Green Architect (Studio Live) [HD]

Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - The Alarmist

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Let’s move forward with this already exciting line-up and let it grow to something even more special. Also this time we have bands from all over the world with (not so) old friends and new friends joining us for dunk!festival 2019.

Zhaoze from China is definitely a name you should remember. They performed at last years edition on the main stage and stayed here afterwards to record their album in dunk!studios. After a few days of trying things out in the studio they decided to move the studio equipment to the forest for more inspiration. So it makes a lot of sense to have them present their new album to you at the exact same location it was recorded.

Baulta from Finland will bring their post-rock / post-metal tunes to the festival for the first time. They started out in 2008-2009 and in the meantime they were already nominated multiple times for album of the year by specialized media. A short listening session (or better: a long listening session) to their recorded work will tell you that this is going to be a wonderful experience delivering nice post-rock build ups exploding into post-metal climaxes. Can’t go wrong!

Coastlands from Oregon, USA was there at dunk!USA in Vermont in 2017 and, as expected, they made an impression! After releasing To Be Found on dunk!records early 2017 they also released The Further Still on double colored vinyl through dunk!records in November 2018 which already sold out. Their loud and intense ‘instrumental sad-rock’ will definitely translate well onto our main stage.

This Patch of Sky is also from Oregon, also played dunk!USA 2017 and will also be there at dunk!festival 2019. So far the similarities to the previous band. Their latest album These Small Spaces on dunk!records was released on dunk!records (EU) in September 2017 (wait, that’s another thing they have in common). After dunk!USA we kept listening to this album with its enchanting cello parts and we couldn’t be happier to finally have them on the line-up for dunk!festival. We know for sure this is going to be one of those moments of this years edition.

WANHEDA from Belgium will open the forest stage on day 2. “This is a classic Dunk! band who have a bunch of excellent tunes as business cards." — Merchants of Air. We didn’t realize we were already a genre tag but nevertheless we trust this quote and booked these guys for our 15th edition. Oh, and their tunes are definitely worth checking out. Preferably live, at the end of May in the area of East Flanders, if possible in a forest.

Zhaoze - Forest Recording of Birds Contending in Belgium [Titbits] | 沼泽�队

Baulta - Different Me, Brand New You

Coastlands - Bottomfeeder

This Patch of Sky "Bella Muerte" (Official Music Video)

WANHEDA - Exploring Systems

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Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to present the second headliner for dunk!festival 2019: Ufomammut. Besides this being our 15th edition we can also celebrate the 20th anniversary of this power trio from Italy. They started out in 1999. That was last century! Luckily for us this is not their first appearance at the festival. If you were there in 2014 (first time at the new location) we don’t have to explain their live reputation.

“The trio have developed a sound characterised by lengthy songs centered on repeated heavy riffs coupled with droning vocals and the use of sound effects and synths.” This is the recipe for success!

Or also from their biography:

“Ufomammut’s status as one of the most potent, powerful and artistic contemporary doom artists in existence continues to captivate the masses, and the band’s worldwide grasp grows wider with each release.” And they released 8 albums so far. Just saying…

Ufomammut - "8" (2017) New Album

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The festival is coming closer now and the last bands are being confirmed these days. While fine tuning some details with everyone involved we are ready to announce another 5 bands! And we can include an interesting dunk!records announcement as well.

Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut is a relatively new post-rock band from Bucharest, Romania and can be translated to ‘I Went To The Mountains And I Liked It’. Mountains? That means post-rock! In this case with ‘emotional instrumental passages, heavy breakdowns and a funny online presence’. It’s mostly that last feature that made the difference. We know they’re not talking about song lyrics so we are in the dark as much as you guys.

Le Temps Du Loup from Madrid, Spain released their latest album Cardinal on dunk!records and was one of the first pressings of dunk!pressing. Sold out for now but we might have a repress available by the time they hit the dunk!stage. ‘From vitriolic power riffing to contemplative melodic explorations, from deliberate, forceful, low end-driven builds to dizzying climactic heights’ is what you will witness on June 1st on our mainstage.

Black Narcissus from Belgium is ‘a 2-piece rhythm section providing intense and atmospheric tunes of monumental proportion’. Monumental music with only the rhythm section? That sounds interesting! They will open up the Forest Stage on day 1 with their black-metal (with a touch of post-rock of course) and you better be there.

Wang Wen is one of China’s leading post-rock bands and already proved why at dunk!festival 2015. They just released their new single ‘Endless’, written for a reality show about space travel and emigration to Mars. We’re looking forward to be in the audience and let us be carried away by their music...

And then we have Kokomo from Duisburg, Germany. If you don’t know them yet you’re probably also new to this festival because this excellent instrumental and most of all loud post-rock band is connected to the history of this festival for a long time already. Of course they are also signed to dunk!records (did you know their first album If Wolves was the very first release of dunk!records) and we are beyond excited to let you know that they will bring a new album with them on their 5th appearance at dunk!festival (last time was in 2016, first time in 2010).

Kokomo - Kaputt Finker

Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut - S​-​a Rezolvat. Nu Se Poate. (Full Album) 2017

Le Temps Du Loup - Cardinal (2018) (Full Album)

Wang Wen-Endless

Black Narcissus - Kindred Spirit, Why Do You Linger?

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Efrim Manuel Menuck as a musician has made a big impact on the scene. With Godspeed You! Black Emperor he can be called one of the founding fathers and an inspiration for many. We were happy to welcome him on our stage in 2010 with Thee Silver Mt. Zion and are now excited to have him back 9 years later. This time with his solo project with Kevin Doria.

Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars [Full Album]

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Here it is! The final line-up for #dnk19. These bands are the last ones to join the party but definitely not the least. In this last announcement we have lots of high quality Belgian bands, new music from across the Atlantic and two Forest headliners.

Her Name Is Calla (UK) performed the festival a few times before (2011, 2016) but unfortunately this seems to be their last time. Sadly, because they're calling it a day as a band. And to make it even more memorable they will release a brand new double album (on dunk!records!) on the day of their show (June 1st). We heard bits and pieces and we promise it will be a grande finale for the Forest Stage and for this band that has been in the front lines of the post-rock scene for the past decade.

Summit (BE) is working on their debut album to be released in 2019 and with influences such as Russian Circles, Isis, Tool, Year Of No Light we might be in for treat. Their post-rock / post-metal is scheduled to open the Forest Stage on the third day of the festival.

Wrekmeister Harmonies (US) is a perfect headliner for the Forst (Friday May 31st). The music is described as pastoral doom and the biography mentions 'Few artists have perfected the nuances of beauty as well as annihilation, and Robinson's mastery of both sides of the spectrum makes his an unique voice in the field of doom. ' We couldn't have said it better. This is going to be an immersive set in our dark forest.

Labirinto (BR) are long time friends of the festival (2013, 2015) and we're excited to have them back. Over the years their music got a heavier and heavier so their performances were never the same and won't be this time. They just released their latest album Divino Afflante Spiritu on Pelagic Records. This is perfect study material to prepare for their Main Stage set.


Statue (BE) received a lot of wonderful reviews for their latest album Kasper which they released at Paradiso in Amsterdam. They bring instrumental experimental noise (think Battles) with 4 guitar players and deliver songs with a keen eye for detail without losing the focus to keep those feet dancing. Maybe we will see some dancing in the audience!

MANTIS (BE) recently added a new band member, wrote some new stuff and reworked some old songs so we're looking forward to see this upgraded version of an already interesting band! 'Live, MANTIS bring their self-proclaimed 'pogojazz' to the people, which always results in an explosion of overdriven guitars, singalong riffs and a lot of intense faces.'

Celestial Wolves (BE) is known to the festival. As a band (2013, 2015) and as part of the organization of this festival. They released their latest album Call Of The Void (on dunk!records) in Fall last year and would be happy to bring their new instrumental, melodic, dynamic and powerful sound to the dunk!audience. Always performed with intensity as if it is their last show. They will hit the Forest Stage on Saturday June 1st.


PILLARS (US) is an instrumental post-rock band from Indianapolis and released one full album so far. And with just that we feel there's a lot to discover in this band. They take listeners on a aural voyage full of thoughtfully crafted peaks and plunges. We are sure we will hear more from these guys very soon!

Staghorn (US) was on our shortlist for a while and after meeting them in person and experiencing their show on their last EU tour we knew we had to book them for our next edition. This is post-rock with a strong story. Staghorn is as much an intellectual, cultural and philosophical statement as it as an artistic expression. [...] Staghorn's recordings offer a narrated sonic journey through our self-induced downfall, the animal kingdom's terrifying yet triumphant return to power, and more.

Her Name Is Calla (live at #dnk16)

Summit live @ Kinky Star (2018)

Wrekmeister Harmonies on Audiotree Live (Full Session)

LABIRINTO - Divino Afflante Spiritu (Official Video)

Statue - The Perfect Storm

MANTIS - WELP (Music Video)

Celestial Wolves - Call Of The Void [Full Album]

PILLARS - Of Salt and Sea (Live) - In Store Recordings

Staghorn - Wormwood III - Daytrotter Session - 6/20/2018

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Op maandag 1 maart 2021 14:07 schreef pipster het volgende:
Ja dat zie je niet meteen aankomen, prima album overigens, al verwacht ik verder niet dat ik hem grijs zal draaien..

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Op maandag 1 maart 2021 14:15 schreef pipster het volgende:
Die bij Revenants was wel een toffe plaat (al helpt de hele sfeer van die serie). Daarna nog Atomic gekocht bij een optreden (met mooi visueel spektakel) , maar die zet ik eigenlijk nooit op.

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Op maandag 1 maart 2021 15:40 schreef Faxie het volgende:
Vluchtig geluisterd, maar mij doet die niet heel veel eigenlijk. Ik vind vooral hun oude werk goed.

Er is trouwens een Nederlandse webwinkel bijgekomen die zich puur richt op postrock. https://demistrecords.nl.