Roadburn 2014: Bong and Noothgrush Added to Lineup
So you’re telling me that if I’m fortunate enough to be able to get my ass to Roadburn 2014, I can see Graves at Sea and Noothgrush? Well Jeebus, Roadburn, why don’t you just fulfill all of my West Coast sludge wishes? The already-badass continues to get more and more badass, and as somebody who’s caught Bong at Roadburn before, I’m happy to say that once you get indoctrinated into that cult there’s really no getting out.
Here’s the latest, courtesy of the Roadburn website:
Shamanic Leaders of Psychotropic Doom Excursions Bong To Return To Roadburn Festival 2014
Shamanic leaders of psychotropic doom excursions to the farthest reaches of lysergic space and time, Bong return to Roadburn in 2014!
Exploring the outer reaches of raga-like doom /psychedelia, Bong are meant to be experienced in a live setting and we are ecstatic to have them back to Roadburn, playing on Thursday, April 10th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Strap into the cockpit of your own private space ship and prepare to experience the inexorable journey to the darkest corners of the doomiverse.
Electric Wizard gave us doom-mantia, and Bong stretch that concept out into doom-mantra… a sound where space and time are suspended, and drone, doom and sitars wash over you while you depart this space-time continuum to become suspended in distortion, propelled by slowly mutating drum patterns toward doom enlightenment.
Join us as we turn Roadburn over to Bong‘s mystic vision quest to the molten center of doom.
Roadburn Festival 2014 will run for four days from Thursday, April 10th to Sunday, April 13th 2014 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Bay Area’s Noothgrush To Rumble The Foundations of Roadburn Festival 2014
Utilizing Iommi guitar tone, huge drums awash in wide open cymbals, and sludge / hardcore vokills with heavy political / social lyrical content, Noothgrush are the crushing essence of modern doom, the Bay Area’s answer to Corrupted and early Boris.
They are masters of dynamics, not afraid to get quiet and minimal to create space and contrast for the enormous riffing that follows. Roadburn is extremely happy to to welcome them to the 2014 festival where they will be rumbling the foundations of the 013 venue on Saturday, April 12th in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Noothgrush stretch back almost 20 years, but took a 10 year hiatus and reformed in 2011. They have a guitar sound that is firmly rooted in classic doom, but the drumming and vocals put them stylistically in the modern doom camp. Contemporaries of Eyehategod, Grief and Cavity, Noothgrush did their fair share to drive the sound of U.S. doom lower and slower.
Their vengeful, harrowing doom also incorporates some psychedelic elements as well — evidenced by them covering tracks from Pink Floyd‘s Ummagumma — along with lots of space to give the vocals and guitar maximum impact.
Roadburn Festival 2014 will run for four days from Thursday, April 10th to Sunday, April 13th 2014 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
