The Scene
It's not common to run across a boutique heavy music festival, but then again, nothing about the two decade old Roadburn Festival is run-of-the-mill. Held in the Dutch city of Tilburg, Roadburn's genre boundary pushing lineup ask festies to redefine their definition of heavy. Taking place in the early spring, 4000 attendees a day come to bang heads, with three quarters of the crowd from outside the Netherlands.
Festival Poster
2015 Artist Lineup
- Acid Witch
- Anathema
- Anthroprophh
- Argus
- Bast
- Bell Witch
- Black Anvil
- Bongripper
- Botanist
- Brimstone
- Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin
- Coltsblood
- Coma Wall
- Cortez
- Darkher
- Death Hawks
- Der Weg Einer Freiheit
- Domo
- Downfall of Gaia
- Eagle Twin
- Electric Citizen
- Enslaved
- Eyehategod
- Fields of the Nephilim
- Fister
- Fistula
- Floor
- Focus
- Goatwhore
- Helms Alee
- Junius
- Kandodo
- Kayo Dot
- Ken Mode
- King Dude
- Lazer/Wulf
- Lo-Pan
- Majeure
- Messenger
- Minsk
- Moloch
- Monolord
- Mortals
- Mount Salem
- Mugstar
- Oozing Wound
- Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L
- Primitive Man
- Profetus
- Russian Circles
- Salem’s Pot
- Sammal
- Scott H. Biram
- Skeletonwitch
- Skuggsjá
- Sólstafir
- Sólstafir
- Spidergawd
- Steve Moore
- SubRosa
- Sun Worship
- Svartidaudi
- Terminal Cheesecake
- The Golden Grass
- The Heads
- The Osiris Club
- The Picturebooks
- The Tower
- Thou
- Tombs
- Tombstones
- Undersmile
- Uzala
- Virus
- Wardruna – Einar Kvitrafn Selvik (curator)
- White Hills
- Worm Ouroboros
- Wovenhand
- Zoltan
- Zombi