Roadburn 2022: First line-up announcement

Roadburn 2022: First line-up announcement

ULVER will be a special set to celebrate their 25 years as a band. Focussing on their most recent release, Flowers of Evil, the performance will mark their return to the live stage as well as their quarter century milestone.

Roadburn’s 2022 curators are Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone of the Dutch band GGGOLDDD; as well as hand-picking elements of the festival line up, they will join the rest of the band to perform the commissioned music they wrote for this year’s Roadburn Redux event – a piece entitled This Shame Should Not Be Mine.

As part of the curated element of Roadburn, LITURGY – the avant-garde black metal band – will be performing their 2019 album H.A.Q.Q in full, as well as bringing to life their 2020 album Origin of the Alimonies, performing it as an opera on the main stage in sync with a film created by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, accompanied by a chamber orchestra. Milena and Thomas will also present the European debut of BACKXWASH – the celebrated artist fuses rap and metal, and will perform two special sets at Roadburn – and performances from DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE, and MIDWIFE.

A limited number of tickets for Roadburn Festival 2022 will go on sale in a few hours (7pm CEST, 6pm BST, 1pm EDT, 10am PDT) via Ticketmaster.nl

COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
 
Further commissioned projects – originally planned for 2020 – will finally see the light of day as JAMES KENT (PERTURBATOR) joins forces with JOHANNES PERSSON (CULT OF LUNA) to perform Final Light. Cellist JO QUAIL will perform her commissioned piece, entitled The Cartographer, and VILE CREATURE and BISMUTH will unite to perform A Hymn of Loss and Hope.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE & MORE
 
FULL OF HELL will be Artists In Residence for the festival performing four times over the course of the event, including a collaboration with NOTHING entitled Full of Nothing. ALCEST will perform their groundbreaking album Écailles de Lune, whilst SÓLSTAFIR will perform their expansive album, Svartir Sandar.

Elsewhere on the bill Roadburn welcomes back some familiar faces such as RUSSIAN CIRCLES and PRIMITIVE MAN, whilst also inviting some new and mysterious members to the Roadburn family, such as underground black metal bands LAMP OF MURMUUR and KOLDOVSTVO.
For full details of what has been announced so far, please visit www.roadburn.com. Stay tuned for more line up announcements in the coming weeks.
 

The main poster artwork for Roadburn 2022 has been created by Valreza Collective, you can read more about them on our website.

Roadburn is grateful for the support of Fonds Podiumkunsten, provincie Noord-Brabant, the City of Tilburg, and Brabant C.