The Roadburn 2024 side programme with Khanate, Death Goals, Agriculture, clipping. and more

Roadburn’s side programme returns with a clutch of conversations to tickle curious minds! If you’re keen to dive into the inner workings of some of your favourite artists at Roadburn this year, then read on!

Both Khanate and Blood Incantation will be ‘in conversation’ – although not with each other! Heaviness as a concept will be explored through an experimental lens, with members of clipping and King Yosef contributing their tales of heavy music exploration. On a separate panel, members of Agriculture, Ragana and Death Goals will discuss the restorative power of heavy music, with a focus on queerness and healing.

Roadburn’s Artistic Director, Walter Hoeijmakers will sit down to spill the beans on everything to do with this year’s edition of the festival and beyond… And our resident vinyl guru, Andreas Kohl will lead a conversation about the sustainable future of vinyl.


Help Alkahest release their Live at Roadburn release

Roadburn is always looking to the future – we say it all the time. Last year we witnessed the future of heavy music in the form of the new young band, Alkahest.
In collaboration with the Metal Factory in Eindhoven, a group of students worked on a commissioned set for Roadburn under the artistic wing of Michel Nienhuis (Autarkh & Autarkh III, ex-Dodecahedron). The result was a packed Hall of Fame during their first ever show at Roadburn 2023. And you can relive that performance with them.
The band has started a crowdfunding campaign to release their Roadburn performance. If you want to support their release, Alkahest – Live at Roadburn 2023, be sure to check out their Voor De Kunst page.

Alkahest - Voor De Kunst page

Chelsea Wolfe releases ‘Tunnel Lights’

After the first singles “Whispers In The Echo Chamber” and “Dusk”, Chelsea Wolfe released the third single from her forthcoming album ‘She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She’ today. Check out the incredible video by George Gallardo Kattah for ‘Tunnel Lights’ below.

Read more about Chelsea Wolfe at Roadburn

The Jesus & Mary Chain share new single ‘jamcod’

The Jesus & Mary Chain have just shared their new single ‘jamcod’ from their upcoming album ‘Glasgow Eyes’.

JAMC are a band who have made such an impact on the world within which Roadburn operates, their legend feels outsized, too large to fully comprehend. It is with great pride – and more than a little disbelief – that we’re preparing to welcome The Jesus and Mary Chain to Roadburn 2024.


Ticketing FAQ

Ticketing FAQ

Tickets for Roadburn go on sale soon! If you have questions about tickets or accommodation, we’re here to help. We’ve put together a short FAQ – but if you need to know something else before Friday, get in touch.

Tickets will go on sale Friday, 3 November at 7pm CET,6pm GMT, 1pm EST, 10am PST via our ticket page.

Tickets will go on sale Friday, 4 November at 7pm CET,6pm GMT, 1pm EST, 10am PST via our ticket page.

All the ticket options are available to view on the ticket page right here on the Roadburn website. Your purchase will be made via ticketmaster.nl so if you’ve not ordered from them before, you may wish to set up an account ahead of tickets going on sale for a smoother check out.

Accommodation options are also listed here on the Roadburn website, and those transactions will also be processed via Ticketmaster.nl. You can book your accommodation at the same time as you book your tickets, or make separate purchases. If you are booking accommodation, do be sure to book your festival ticket as well (i.e accommodation packages do not include a ticket).

We are aware that everything is more expensive than it used to be – and we looked into ways that the cost of Roadburn could be spread out over multiple payments. Unfortunately, this is complicated to implement for international visitors due to Dutch regulations and restrictions.  For the time being, our best advice would be to spread the cost yourself – you could book your ticket one month, accommodation the next, then your travel after that. Our regular attendees have a wealth of experience and knowledge about this, so if you want some tips, our Roadburners facebook group will be sure to help you out.

If your questions can’t be answered here or elsewhere on the Roadburn website, then you can always ask us for what you need and we’ll do our best to help!


Roadburn UnLoc - an exclusive Roadburn pre-sale event with Supersonic Blues

Ahead of additional ticket options going on sale we’re holding a party at LOC brewery on November 2 from 8pm. The following day (November 3, 7pm CET) 3-day and single day tickets, plus various accommodation options will be on sale online.

Supersonic Blues will bring their heavy seventies vibes to the party to kick things off in style. For the uninitiated, this band is the embodiment of a lost treasure from the past transported to modern day – think Grand Funk, Josefus, and Blue Cheer reincarnated.

LOC Brewery has a great kitchen, so you can line your stomach, drink some fine craft brews and bang your head. Admission is free!
Day tickets and 3 day tickets will be exclusively on sale at LOC brewery – a full day before they’ll be online.


Roadburn announces first names for 2024 including The Jesus and Mary Chain, Chelsea Wolfe, Lankum and clipping.

Having already announced KHANATE for the 2024 edition of the festival, Roadburn has today made its first broader line up announcement, including THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, CHELSEA WOLFE, LANKUM, and CLIPPING. Roadburn 2024 will take place between 18-21 April in Tilburg, The Netherlands. 

Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers, comments:

“With this announcement, we are diving straight into the heart of what Roadburn 2024 is about. These artists that we are proud to unveil today are all of great significance for what the festival has become in recent times. We feel these artists represent the broad scope of Roadburn. With the first of the commissioned music projects also being revealed, we are as always, looking firmly into the future as well, presenting entirely new music. This is the start of many great things to come.”

It’s simply not possible to capture the true essence of THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN within a few words. They are a band who have made such an impact on the world within which Roadburn operates, their legend feels outsized, too large to fully comprehend. The Jesus and Mary Chain offer up a heady blend of fuzz and melody as a transportation device; whisking us a way to a different time and place of rose-tinted romance, wistful existentialism and just the right dose of hedonism.

Alongside the announcement of a new CHELSEA WOLFE album, we’re thrilled to reveal plans for her return to mainland Europe  – at Roadburn 2024.  In the twelve years since her first Roadburn appearance, this already remarkable artist has blossomed into an unstoppable force. As a songwriter and consummate creative entity incorporating evocative songwriting and unparalleled artistic vision, Chelsea Wolfe wraps the entire package in an ethereal, shimmering bow.

To witness LANKUM live is an intimate experience – no matter the size of the room. The four Irish musicians on stage play a dizzying array of instruments between them and possess a deep understanding of traditional folk, an appreciation of heaviness and deft hand for putting a twist on what has gone before them in the folk genre.

Experimental hip hop trio CLIPPING will make their Roadburn debut in 2024. A force to be reckoned with in the live arena, their minimalist onstage aesthetic belies the sonic complexities that they effuse. Experimenting with confrontation and heaviness within hip hop is part of what makes Clipping so exciting, and to our ears, makes them a band that belongs at the heart of what we do at Roadburn. 

The first commissioned performance of 2024 to be announced will be crafted by the hand of MAT MCNERNEY. Music for Gloaming: A Nocturne by the Hexvessel Folk Assembly will be an entirely original composition, written and performed exclusively at Roadburn 2024. Evoking night-time mysticism, a realm where daylight bows to advancing darkness, unraveling both the external twilight tapestry and the internal landscapes of memory and thought, this commissioned work promises to be something truly special.
Additionally, HEXVESSEL will perform their latest album, Polar Veil in full at Roadburn 2024. On this striking release, a majestic shroud of black metal grandiosity is overlaid upon heaving doom and psychedelic flourishes that capture what is at the heart of Hexvessel. 

Los Angeles based ecstatic black metal group, AGRICULTURE, will make their European debut at Roadburn, flying in for an exclusive one-off performance.

Mysterious Dutch black metal band, FLUISTERAARS will play their second ever show – their first in mainland Europe – at Roadburn, showcasing what has made them such an integral part of the underground black metal scene for so many years. 

CLOAKROOM will bring their particular take on interplanetary exploration to Tilburg, playing tracks from their latest album, Dissolution Wave and more. 

With the promise of a new album on the horizon, melancholic black metallers DÖDSRIT will return to Roadburn this coming April.

Delivering a dose of bloodsoaked blasphemy, DEVIL MASTER will make their Roadburn debut, traveling from Philadelphia to bring their malevolent magick to the masses.

The artwork for Roadburn 2024 has been unveiled; a striking video created by French artist, David Fitt is available to view in full via the Roadburn website. This extraordinarily talented French artist has been on our radar for some time now, and we had the great honour of hosting an exhibition of his portraits at Roadburn 2023. From there our appreciation for his work blossomed into a creative relationship that has resulted in the work that we’re thrilled to present to represent the 2024 edition of the festival. Read more about David’s artwork for Roadburn HERE.

4-day tickets for Roadburn 2024 are now on sale. Other ticket options – including single day tickets and accommodation – will follow on November 3. More artists will be announced in the coming weeks. For all information including tickets, please visit www.roadburn.com


Introducing our brand-new podcast, Roadburn: Essential Stories.

Exciting news! We’re introducing our brand-new podcast, Roadburn: Essential Stories.
 
On the podcast you’ll hear exclusive interviews and musical insights with the minds behind the festival. You can listen to our first episode with none other than Khanate, where drummer, Tim Wyskida, talks about their upcoming Roadburn performance – their first show in 19 years.
 
Subscribe now and join us on this sonic adventure below or via Spotify
 
Interview by José Carlos Santos
Music by Matt McNerney


Roadburn 2024: underground futurism

For the first time ever, this year we started the ticket sales right after the festival, without any bands announced. So many of you have bought tickets already, and that continued support is really overwhelming. Once again, thank you dearly. The faith and trust you have put in us is truly heartwarming and encouraging, and it has been a constant inspiration for our work behind the scenes for next year’s edition.

We want Roadburn 2024 to reflect our very own “underground futurism” approach, to be a showcase for the current underground, inspired by the past but firmly looking into the future as well. We will be pushing boundaries of what heavy is and can be. We expect this to be a hallmark edition, a sonic adventure we’ll embark on together.

Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow, as we will have a special standalone announcement of a band that makes us very proud, and that will mark the actual starting point of Roadburn 2024.

As you all know, booking is more complicated post-pandemic than it used to be, so please bear with us for future announcements and know we are grateful for your patience. We can’t wait to see you all in Tilburg on April 18th-21st.

Walter, on behalf of Roadburn

Roadburn 2024 artwork courtesy of the incredibly talented David Fitt


Roadburn 2023: Audio streams for Cave In, Wolves In The Throne Room, Chat Pile and more

Re-live Roadburn 2023 with the new batch of audio streams recorded at last year’s festival – including Cave In, DeWolff, Chat Pile, Wolves In the Throne Room and more!

Once again we have teamed up with VPRO 3voor12Holland’s major cultural network, to bring you these streams in all their glory. As has become tradition, with the invaluable help of Marcel Van De Vondervoort (Torture Garden Studio) and his team, you are now able to relive or uncover some true highlights from the Roadburn vaults.