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.
2018 Artist Lineup
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Zola Jesus
- Aerial Ruin
- Alda
- All Pigs Must Die
- Årabrot
- Arctic
- Bell Witch
- Big Brave
- Bison
- Black Decades
- Boris with Stephen O’Malley
- Comet Control
- Concatenatus
- Converge
- Crowbar
- Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas
- Damo Suzuki
- Dawn Ray’d
- Départe
- Dhidalah
- Dystopia
- Earthless
- Ex Eye
- Forgotten Tomb
- Fuoco Fatuo
- Furia
- Galg
- Gallops
- Godflesh
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- GosT
- Grave Pleasures
- Greenmachine
- Hail Spirit Noir
- Hair of the Dog
- Hällas
- Harsh Toke
- Hell
- Hexis
- Hidden Trails
- Hooded Menace
- Horte
- Hugsjá
- Igorrr
- Insect Ark
- Jacob Bannon
- Jarboe ft Father Murphy
- Jonathan Hultén
- JOY
- Kælan Mikla
- Kairon; IRSE!
- Khemmis
- Kikagaku Moyo
- LLNN
- Maggot Heart
- Mania
- Minami Deutsch
- Mirror Queen
- Mizmor
- Motorpsycho
- Mutoid Man
- Occvlta
- Old Tower
- Panopticon
- Petyr
- Phantom Winter
- Pharlee
- Planning For Burial
- Project Nefast
- Red Octopus
- RRRags
- Sacri Monti
- Sangre De Muerdago
- Sannhet
- Scatterwound
- Spotlights
- Stomach Earth
- Sum of R
- Supersonic Blues
- Syk
- Thaw
- The Heads
- The Ruins Of Beverast
- Thou x The Body
- Toby Driver
- Ulsect
- Une Misère
- Uniform
- Vampillia
- Vánagandr: Sól án varma
- VMO
- Volcano
- Waste Of Space Orchestra
- Watter
- Wear Your Wounds
- Weedeater
- Wiegedood
- Wolfbrigade
- Worship
- Wreck and Reference
- Wrekmeister Harmonies
- Yellow Eyes
- Zola Jesus