Currently fronted by Jamie Myers (ex-Hammers of Misfortune and Wolves in the Throne Room), Sabbath Assembly continues creating your darkest liturgical nightmare by combining the nether regions of apocalyptic doom with the twisted world of spiritually-delusional obsessions. Specifically, Sabbath Assembly is performing the hymns of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a 60?s cult eerily linked to the Manson murders and the widespread dispersal of Satanic Underground culture in the US and UK.
Their new album, Ye Are Gods, offers the first-ever glimpse into the highest and holiest mass of the Process Church, and features Genesis Breyer P-Orridge in the role of High Priest(ess). Exclusively for this Roadburn engagement, Sabbath Assembly will be joined by Genesis in the EU premiere of this Processian “Sabbath Assembly” ritual.
Be forewarned — Satan and Lucifer will be summoned!
Roadburn very pleased to announce that Finland’s Tombstoned will bring their 70?s influenced psychedelic doom-metal to Jus Oborn‘s The Electric Acid Orgy on Friday, April 19th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.
Tombstoned deliver a tube-driven Sabbath meets Blue Cheer meets St. Vitus vintage doom assault featuring insanely catchy riffs and Witchcraft-like vocals, and this power trio’s very heavy yet very hypnotic wall of sound is capable of transporting you from your local pub’s friday-night energy to the vast cosmos.
It was that September-released follow-up album, No Holier Temple, which fuses the acoustic 70s folk vibe of its predecessor into a more psychedelic, doom-folk sound, juxtaposed with deep ecology, like the thinking man’s acid-rock, that has caused a real stir and gave rise to the idea that we just might need to invite them back to Roadburn 2013.
Reaching what Metal Hammer Magazine describes as “portals” of “spirit-trafficking menace” and “moments of transcendent beauty,” About.com calls their new album “a cult-born liturgy for all who appreciate nature’s splendor.” With Rock-A-Rolla Magazine dubbing it “an ever-shifting beast, floating between unhurried bliss and fevered rapture.”
Prog Magazine identifies it containing nods towards “the Beatles, HP Lovecraft and King Crimson,” whilst reminding that they have created “their own world, both whimsical yet also biting.” Soundi Magazine, from their Finnish homeland, even calls the band “the Black Sabbath of this decade.”
Walter & Co are all extremely happy to welcome back, as Ondarock from Italy puts it, “the rising stars of psychedelic folk in Europe,” as their European tour with fellow label cohorts Sabbath Assembly, reaches it’s climax at Roadburn Festival 2013 on Friday, April 19th at Het Patronaat in Tilburg, Holland.
Portland, OR’s Witch Mountain will bring their crushing doom to Roadburn Festival 2013 on Friday, April 19th at Het Patronaat in Tilburg, Holland.
Founded by guitarist Rob Wrong and drummer Nate Carson in 1997, this was not yet the Witch Mountain that would come to fruition. In 2009, the addition of vocalist Uta Plotkin transformed the band into something extraordinary with her bluesy, sensual and commanding voice as captured on both South of Salem (2011) and Cauldron of the Wild (2012).
Plotkin’s powerful and soulful pipes sound almost out of place, but this is exactly what makes Witch Mountain so special. She belts out the band’s massive, doomy, bluesy tunes like a metallized Janis Joplin or the lost sister of Heart‘s Ann and Nancy Wilson who chose the left-hand path.
Distilled from thick churning down-tuned guitars and dense drumming infused with Plotkin’s sad and sweet vocals, Witch Mountain lumbers without plodding and soars without drifting off. The epic sound and unique take on doom metal has earned them both a highly acclaimed reputation and a rightful place among the current crop of wickedly talented female-fronted bands. We are super stoked to welcome Witch Mountain to the Roadburn Festival during their first-ever European tour.
“2012 has been the biggest and best of Witch Mountain’s 15 year history”, says Nate Carson, “Two successful headlining American tours, two albums on Profound Lore, a new single, Scion Rock Fest (with Sleep and Saint Vitus), and now this.”
“It is truly an honor to end this year with the official announcement that we will finally tour Europe. Many thanks go out from us to Roadburn for this fantastic invitation. My only concern is that Cauldron of the Wild LP pre-orders are coming in so quickly that we may run out of vinyl before we get over there! Cheers!”
Roadburn are very pleased to announce that C R O W N will bring their massive slab of industrial-doom-noise to Roadburn Festival 2013 on Thursday, April 18th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.
Hailing from France, C R O W N, are two men and a machine who tune their neutron guitars to the Richter scale, and deliver the sound of a molten universe collapsing. Touching on early Isis, Godflesh, Floor and even Killing Joke, C R O W N explore the depths of slow tempos on their debut album, The One, and their split EP with St Valley through sheer exuberant heaviness.
The duo’s depth-charging guitars and buried melodic tendencies snake around hissing electronics, a tribal / military percussive thwack, and the splashing cymbals of a minimal-yet-completely-effective drum-machine. Their sound is further emboldened by a massive bestial roar, heavy and oppressive, leading to an abyss of nothingness…. Welcome to the dark, spiraling, and obscure experiments of C R O W N.
Roadburn Festival 2013 will run for four days from Thursday, April 18th to Sunday, April 21st, 2013 (the traditional Afterburner event) at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Ticketsfor the Afterburner are still available!
Source: THE SLEEPING SHAMAN
