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Church of Misery, Ancestors and Horisont To Return To Roadburn Festival

Posted on Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Making their fourth appearance in 5 years at the festival, it looks like Japan’s serial-killer-obsessed seekers of the almighty riff Church of Misery are poised to become the offficial Roadburn house band. All joking aside, Church of Misery were among THE highlights of the previous Roadburn festivals (even the main stage almost proved way to small for them), and Roadburn 2012 will mark their triumphant return, on the main stage again (of course!), together with Sleep and The Obsessed on Saturday, April 14th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Los Angeles based psychedelic rock quintet Ancestors will be making a highly anticipated return to Roadburn for the 2012 Festival. On their latest EP, Invisible White, Ancestors tamped down their surging stoner rock leanings in favour of a more cinematic approach with long moog / modular synth workouts very much reminiscent of Pink Floyd circa Meddle and Live at Pompeii. Charting a new course for the band’s progressive, colourful sounds, Ancestors will get the chance to reprise their stunning 2010 Roadburn performance, this time supporting the release of a new, much anticipated album. Ancestors will play on Thursday, April 14th at the Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland.

Sweden’s Horisont will return to Roadburn after their highly acclaimed 2010 performance. Unfortunately, they ended up going on at the same time as Witchcraft due to last-minute timetable changes (don’t mention the volcano!) and many people missed it. This time, Horisont will play the Green Room instead of the Bat Cave on Thursday, April 12th at the 013 venue.

If you are an avid heavy 70s aficionado you will definitely dig Sweden’s Horisont. They excel at crafting old school bluesy hard rock influenced by the likes of Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath and November. The fact that the lyrics are sung in Swedish and English adds to band’s appeal. Horisont’s debut album Tva Sidor av Horisonten (“Two Sides of Horisont”) easily ranks among the very best stoner rock albums of 2009 and earned them lots of new fans and a deal with Rise Above Records, which will be releasing their new album.