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Preview: Roadburn Festival

Jake Longhurst

The Mic's Managing Director, Jake Longhurst, writes their thoughts on the upcoming metal festival this year, Roadburn.


Metal has its fair share of big festivals, with the likes of Download, Hellfest, Wacken and many more being sure fire ways to see plenty of your favourite well-known alternative bands. Roadburn is not one of those festivals. With a penchant for getting firebrands who are ready to start that climb out of the undergrowth and into the forefront of extreme music, they may not have the Iron Maidens and Slipknots of the world on the line-up, but what they do have is one of the greatest collections of live sets out of any festival on the planet.



This year they have the magnificent Deafheaven headlining twice, playing their genre-bending masterpiece Sunbather on almost exactly its 10th anniversary, and then their most recent album Infinite Granite - confirming just how good they are. As well as them, the festival has finally managed to coerce Chat Pile over from the US (off the back of their near-perfect noise metal album God’s Country) for their first-ever European show! Filling out some more of the line-up are British band Pupil Slicer who have written some of the most exciting and powerful music out of the UK in years. Similarly, we are expecting Giles Corey of Have A Nice Life fame, and Zambian/Canadian artist Backxwash, who’ll be performing twice with two themed sets to bring her industrial rap/metal blend to Tilburg. There is no doubt that this festival will be a meeting of some of the next musical generation’s great artists, and I for one cannot wait to be there and see so many phenomenal acts in one weekend.


Jake Longhurst

 

Edited by Roxann Yus


Cover image courtesy of Roadburn Festival via Facebook.

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