Roadburn 2025 Confirms Kylesa Reunion, Chat Pile & Altin Gün in First Lineup Announcement
Well would you look at the time. Europe’s busy Fall festival season hasn’t yet gotten underway — that’ll be later in September through October into November — but Roadburn has always kept its own calendar anyhow. And as the venerated Tilburg, Netherlands, festival unveils the first three acts for its 2025 lineup as a Kylesa reunion, Chat Pile and Altın Gün, their multi-pronged focus of underground futurism that honors past and present would seem to be embodied. Take your pick as to which is which there, I guess.
I’m stoked on the prospect of Kylesa coming back, of course. Laura Pleasants has had her post-punk project The Discussion, and that aspect was there in Kylesa as well, but in a pastiche that included sludge and noise too at its most vicious and went on to become more melodic and progressive by the time of their final-to-date LP, Exhausting Fire (discussed here), which — how about that — turns 10 next year. How many drummers do you think they’ll have?
Joining them are Chat Pile, whose new album Cool World is out Oct. 11 on The Flenser, and Altın Gün, who bring Turkish roots and Dutch progressive indie together and will play a set focused on their more psychedelic-leaning early material. Something special, something ultra cool and something I haven’t heard before. Behold Roadburn, roadburning.
More to come (duh). Here’s what I’ve got for today:
Chat Pile, Kylesa and Altın Gün announced for Roadburn 2025
Roadburn has announced the first three names for the 2025 edition of the festival, which will take place between April 17-20 next year. Noise rock champs Chat Pile will return to Tilburg, and be joined by reunited sludge heroes Kylesa. Altın Gün will bring their psychedelic folk to Roadburn for the first time. Weekend tickets for the festival are on sale now.
Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers, comments:
“With this announcement comes a first glimpse of what the Roadburn universe will be like in 2025. For this edition, we will look to the horizon of the underground and beyond, exploring the present and discovering the future along the way, while always honouring the past as well.
“The idea of redefining heaviness remains at the heart of Roadburn, and we will keep striving to galvanise our entire community, from artists to attendees, staff and everyone in between.”
Chat Pile have today announced a new single taken from their upcoming sophomore album, Cool World. Amidst continuously growing enthusiasm for the Oklahoma four piece, their return to Roadburn will mark their first show in Europe following the release of Cool World.
Nine years after announcing an indefinite hiatus, Georgia’s Kylesa will return to the live arena, and Roadburn will host their return to European soil. Led by Laura Pleasants and Phillip Cope, the influential sludge band will no doubt be welcomed with open arms by the Roadburn community.
Altın Gün are set to make their Roadburn debut with a tailor-made set that focuses on the darkest, most psychedelic seam of their work. The Grammy-nominated group have dazzled audiences around the world and now they’ll bring their contemporary Turkish folk to Roadburn.
More bands for the 2025 edition of Roadburn are due to be announced in the coming weeks.
Weekend tickets are on sale now, with further ticketing and accommodation options to follow.
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