What makes it even better is that it’s not just Pentagram, meaning Bobby Liebling and whoever he could hand a guitar to that week, it’s Pentagram with Victor Griffin riffing out, which is pretty much as good as Pentagram gets.

Also announced for the festival of festivals are Soilent Green, French post-black metal enigmas Alcest, Blood Ceremony, Ghost (not the Japanese experimental outfit, but a Swedish black metal band on Rise Above), and In Solitude. Of course, there’s plenty more to come, but here’s the Penta-news from the PR wire:

Long-running D.C. doom legends Pentagram, with riff-meister Victor Griffin back in the fold, have been confirmed for the Thursday Roadburn date, Thursday, April 14th, 2011.

Pentagram had an inestimable impact on today’s burgeoning doom metal and stoner rock scene. Indeed, we at Roadburn Festival feel that Pentagram is on par with more widely-recognized pioneers such as Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer!

Come celebrate over three decades of primordial American doom with Pentagram at Roadburn Festival 2011.

Sponsored by Terrorizer and Germany’s Rock Hard, Roadburn Festival 2011, including SunnO)))’s special event, will run for three days from Thursday April 14 to Saturday April 16 at the 013 venue and Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland. There will be an additional afterburner event on Sunday April 17, 2011.

Tags: Gods, Maryland doom, Pentagram, Roadburn, The Netherlands, Tilburg

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