Roadburn Adds New Bands To 2015 Lineup

Roadburn Festival is pleased to announce new additions to the 20th edition of the festival. The festival will take place April 9th - 12th in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Both day tickets and weekend tickets are currently on sale.

Roadburn 2015's curators - Wardruna's Einar “Kvitrafn” Selvik and Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson - have almost completed the lineup for their event on Friday April 10th. Loop main man, Robert Hampson and Swedish psych heroes, Agusa will both perform alongside Focus, Death Hawks, Sólstafir and others.

BardSpec - the ambient project/band from Enslaved composer/guitarist Ivar - will also perform at the event. Einar will present a workshop which will delve into his approach to music and the extensive creative concept behind Wardruna's ongoing "Runaljod" trilogy as well as his approach and study of the runes and other Norse esoteric arts. He will demonstrate a selection of the oldest Nordic instruments, play fully acoustic Wardruna music, and there will also be time for questions from the audience.

This year, "Roadburn Festival Introduces" will focus on Belgium. Over the years, Belgium has become a hotbed of musical creativity, ranging from indie to garage rock, and virtually everything in between. Whether it’s a dark, psychedelic slant, an insatiable need to worship thee riff, or even developing a cult of their own, only to lure us into their spiraling-netherworld… there’s something about these bands that embodies the spirit of Roadburn.

The mysterious and yet bizarre Belgian band, Briqueville, will connect with the Roadburn community at the 013 on Saturday, April 11th. In keeping with the Belgian theme, Brussels-based Moaning Cities, will bring fuzzed-out and sitar-driven psychedelia to Stage01 on Thursday, April 9th.

In collaboration with one of Belgium’s foremost bookings agencies, RuffStuffMusic, Roadburn also offers Your Highness, King Hiss, Tangled Horns, Ashtoreth, and Miava an outlet on Saturday, April 11th at Cul de Sac.

Other new bands confirmed for the festival include Gnaw Their Tongues, Izah, Hynpos, Verbum Verus, and Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. For the full lineup and ticket details, head over to the Roadburn Festival website here.