Afterburner

We are extremely excited to announce that Coroner will be bringing their amazingly tight brand of technical thrash metal to the 2012 Afterburner, set for Sunday, April 15th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Swiss legends Coroner picked up the thrash metal mantle in 1987 when Metallica went in a more pop direction and Megadeth began to succumb to their vices. They advanced the genre through amazing musicianship and by adding complex progressive / jazz musical elements like odd time changes and unusual modes, but always stayed true to the metal.

So advanced were the musical concepts that Coroner brought into their world of thrash metal, that their five records not only stand the test of time, but they transcend and expand the boundaries of the genre. Listening to them today is just as exhilarating and relevant as they were 20 years ago.

Not too bad for three guys that started out as the road crew for Celtic Frost, a band that got so good that they eventually had Tom G. Warrior do vocals on their Death Cult demo in 1986. By the time they switched to Ron Royce (bassist) handling the vocals, they were ready to unleash their first full-length R.I.P. onto the eagerly awaiting metal world. They followed that up with the classics Punishment for Decadence, No More Color, Mental Vortex and finally Grin.

Their sound evolved as they went along, eventually (on Grin) approaching Industrial metal territory, and they helped prolong the relevance of thrash metal in a world quickly turning its attention to grunge, grindcore, Swedish death metal and black metal. Coroner pushed the musical boundaries and kept their sound fresh and evolving, always displaying their amazing technical abilities and their memorable songwriting.

There is no doubt at all that Coroner will bring supreme metal chops as well as arsenal of amazing songs to their Roadburn show. For those that never got to to see them, this will be an education. For those that did, this should bring near-delirious anticipation of hearing some amazing metal.

With two critically acclaimed albums, Carpe Omnium and Mistress Of Ghosts, and their intense live shows, Atlantis has quickly become a respected name in the post-metal / rock scene. While all music is written by Gilson Heitinga, Atlantis live is a full blown band. By creating a deafening wall of sound with their mixture of noise, doom, ambient, industrial and metal, Atlantis tears down the walls between these genres, leaving their audiences in a state of awe.

A two man band featuring members of two of the unsung stars of the punk / doom / sludge scene, Cavity and 16. To be certain, these men are devotees of punishing dirges. For those familiar with their past bands, Black Cobra brings the expected blistering energy and hoarse, shouted vokills packaged in a no-frils rock and roll juggernaut. This is good, honest music designed to get your body moving and your head banging – blue collar sensibilities all the way. Just the way rock and roll should be.

Bong, England’s mystical masters of raga-inspired drone metal, will be returning to the Roadburn Festival.

Despite their stoner-simple moniker, Bong bring surprising depth and weight to their musical excursions, probing far beneath the superficial aspects of  Black Sabbath-worship into the molten core of the essence of metal.

Bong‘s deep-delving yields a motherlode of subtle psychedelic riches  amidst veins of pure drone which they excavate and manipulate into  alloys of startling beauty and massive durability. We are very excited to have them back to Roadburn, unearthing more musical riches to strike us with awe.

Bongripper is a four-piece instrumental doom metal band from Chicago. Since 2005, they have self-released six recordings. Known for a deafening and intense live performance, the band thrives on an unrelenting sound that can compete with any of the heaviest metal bands of their genre. Bongripper will perform its 2010 album, Satan Worshipping Doom in its entirety for a special Afterburner set. Satan Worshipping Doom ranked among the best albums of 2010, as voted by the Roadburn staff and readers alike. Hail Satan. Worship Doom!

Battering your aural nerve endings with the blackest sludge mainlined from the depths of hell, Dragged Into Sunlight evokes pure horror in a manner making Dennis Nilsen seem sane. With Billy Anderson at the helm of their debut album, Hatred for Mankind, is a masterpiece devoid of everything, descending into relentless sonic hell. Dragged Into Sunlight is NOT a band for the weak – this is thick, sweeping riffage by the ounce, hellish vocals and thundering, redlined tom-heavy drums that ripsaw their way into your guts, causing blunt force trauma that only the select few could ever endure. Only the most downright Roadburners will be able to handle such a soundscape of total negativity aesthetic. We’re up for it! Are you?

Over the years, Electric Orange have been channeling the essence of krautrock on great albums including Abgelaufen!, Platte, Morbus and Netto while simultaneously expanding on the genre and improving their craft.

The band can lay down tribal drums, kaleidoscopic synthesizer effects and six-string freak-outs with the best of them, and send you into the outermost psychedelic realms of the musical galaxy. This is an amazing live group that loves to stretch out the jams, just like in the good old days of Germany’s experimental scene of the late 60s and 70s. Electric Orange honors the legacy of Can, Amon Duul II, Neu!, Harmonia and Birth Control while managing to deliver a sound that is fresh and inspiring

Indomitable sludge / doom behemoths Fleshpress will be playing a one-off  show at Roadburn 2012′s Afterburner. Combining massive riffs, searing vocals and tense atmospheric interludes, Finland’s Fleshpress is a  must-see for the misanthropically inclined. Fitting for a band named after a song on a Grief record, Fleshpress make malevolent, crushing music punctuated by snarling screams of pure hatred. Interspersing noise-riddled, forbidding ambience between bouts of neck-snapping riff assaults, they provide no solace for the timid   and spasms of delirium for fans of filthy sludge and doom. We look forward to seeing the smoking crater they leave behind…

Internal Void formed in the summer of 1987. After quickly solidifying themselves as front runners in the burgeoning Maryland Doom scene IV released their Voyage demo in 1991. Germany’s Hellhound Records soon signed IV and their first full length offering Standing on the Sun was released in 1993. On the heels of the release of Standing Internal Void embarked on a tour of the southeast United States with Hellhound label mates and doom pioneers Saint Vitus.

Following a contract dispute Internal Void decided to part ways with Hellhound Records. With the departure of original drummer Eric Little, Internal Void settled in with well known Maryland Doom scene and long time friend, former Aylum/Unorthodox drummer Ronnie Kalimon.

After signing with Southern Lord Recordings in 1999 IV released the acclaimed Unearthed on the doom loving masses. As IV continued to gig locally in the mid-Atlantic USA region they soon signed with Dogstreet Records to release their next full length release, Matricide. Following Kelly Carmichael and Adam Heinzmann’s involvement with Pentagram and a few years of down time due to numerous family and personal health issues along with pursuing other musical avenues Internal Void are back with a vengeance!

Using organic improvisational techniques, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation are an improv sideline of members of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (who were among the absolute highlights of this years festival). Coming at their improvised ambient jazz from a more drone/doom-informed angle than that of their parental unit, TMFDJC revolves around the plaintive, occasionally eerie and often surprising subtle trombone of Hilary Jeffery as a lead instrument for the group’s cinematic soundscapes.

Squelchy, spaced-out and jittery, the echoing looped soundbed, spectral violin, humming guitar and dense, piercing electronics add a deep hypnotic feel to the colossal drone created by all the musicians as they break loose from whatever space, time or dimension they may find themselves. After the seductive and slightly erotic Succubus soundtrack, and Anthropomorphic, a tryptich of improv recordings made during 2010, we can only guess what kind the sound and atmosphere, as well as movie, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation will conceive at the Roadburn Festival Afterburner

Dutch outsider black metal / doom experimenters Urfaust will be  appearing at Roadburn‘s 2012 Afterburner on Sunday, April 15th in Tilburg, Holland. As long time fans of the band, we are ecstatic that they will be playing a rare live show and bringing their totally unique musical vision to the festival. Last year’s Der Freiwillige Bettler was the strongest album of the bands career and a truly groundbreaking album that ripped up any neat and tidy genre classifications by blurring the lines of black metal, doom and ambient into a potent, highly original style of metal.

YOB are in the vanguard of contemporary doom because of the quality and originality of their psych-tinged doom metal music. Led by Mike Scheidt‘s crushing riffage and relentless stomp, the band has claimed their rightful place on the cosmic doom throne while generating new fans and momentum over the last couple of years. Yob will be playing Catharsis in full at the Afterburner event.