The other day I posted about Roadburn adding Ufomammut, because, well, I saw it. Turns out that the Italian cosmic doom forebears were part of the story, not all of it. Fair enough. Lesson not at all learned, I assure you.

Below, in the poster you’ll see the complete Roadburn 2026 lineup as it stands now. The reason I put that there, instead of just the one for this round of adds — which has Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Boris doing Flood, Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean and more info on Otay: Onii‘s commissioned piece for this year (that’s a three-year residency, you’ll recall) — is so you can of course get the full picture of scope of the thing.

They’re not done, I think, though they probably could be if they wanted. Roadburn isn’t known for ‘scaling back,’ however, so I’d expect more to come. Plenty to dig in either way, and a ton of unfamiliar names, which is how they do. To wit, this full update has 23 names and came down the PR wire:

Roadburn has added more names to its 2026 festival line up, including a commissioned project from OTAY: ONII, a duo of special performances from Boris, and a festival debut from Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. In recent weeks a special set from Ufomammut and a collaboration between Wiegedood and The Blindman Collective were also announced. Roadburn 2026 will take place between April 16-19 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Roadburn’s Artistic Director, Walter Hoeijmakers comments:

“With this announcement, the picture of Roadburn 2026 comes sharply into focus: a near-complete map of artists, ideas, and energies that will define this year’s edition. You can see how the pieces connect; how our past, present, and future come together, capturing both the heartbeat of today’s underground and the quickening pulse of what’s still forming. A reminder, once again, that this world we share remains a fertile breeding ground for everything we hold dear: artistry, resistance, honesty, heart, and imagination.

“As the date draws closer, the energy intensifies. In April, we’ll gather in Tilburg to turn discovery into the shared experience we return for year after year – loud, intimate, challenging, and joyful. See you soon!”

The final piece of the visual art – a triptych by Douwe Dijkstra – was also unveiled this week.

All ticket and accommodation options for Roadburn are on sale. Tickets are on sale now and more information including the full line up can be found at roadburn.com

Today we’ve added another 23 new additions to the line-up:

📍Aho Ssan & Asia
📍Ameretat
📍Bad Breeding
📍Blawan (Live)
📍Boris performing PINK Days and flood
📍Bound by Endogamy
📍Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean
📍Dan Meyer
📍Dead Neanderthals
📍EYES
📍Industry
📍Iskandr
📍Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
📍Kollaps
📍Nothing presents a short history of decay & other stories
📍Commissioned: OTAY: ONII presents Moonstruck Old Tales
📍Parrish Smith
📍Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs performing Death Hilarious
📍Rich(ard) Dawson
📍Scattered Purgatory
📍Street Sects
📍Street Sex
📍These New Puritans
📍Traidora
📍Ufomammut: Aion – The Eternal Coil
📍Wiegedood x Bl!ndman

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Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean, Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On (2026)

I’ve been lucky enough to see Ufomammut here and there a few times over the years. Never a thing I’ve regretted, even once. And certainly they’ve done their traveling and touring since their outset at the dawn of the century, so I don’t think I’m in rarified air or anything. They’ve been a good band for a long time. I’m a fan, is all I’m saying.

The last time I have record of them playing Roadburn in the Netherlands, looking in the annals of news posts and reviews of yore, was 2011, where they did 2010’s landmark album, Eve (review here), in full. Is that why it’s a big deal they’re returning to Roadburn? Because it’s been 15 or so years since the last time? That’s part of it. The continued sonic expansion heralded in Roadburn‘s mission statement is another. I don’t think Ufomammut counter notions of ‘expanding heaviness,’ but neither is Roadburn always interested in engaging its own history in a way it seems to be doing here. Being relentlessly forward-looking is a tradeoff, I guess. With Ufomammut, the festival has it both ways.

The following was hoisted from socials:

There’s not many bands that can claim that their relationship with Roadburn pre-dates the festival actually existing, and yet here’s Ufomammut who can do exactly that. When Roadburn only existed in the digital realm, as a fledgling website dedicated to highlighting new and exciting music, one of the very first bands to reach out the hand of collaboration was an up and coming trio from Italy. To say that our histories have been entwined over the years is something of an understatement; their first trip to Planet Roadburn was back in 2006, but it’s been the best part of 15 years since they last graced our stages.

At Roadburn 2026 they’ll weave together their years of experience and forward thinking vision to create a special show just for us. They describe it as a “circular sonic journey through the band’s history in search of the unfolding future and the next dimension.”

Roadburn is proud to have grown alongside Ufomammut and to have watched the band grow, explore and develop in the years since we were last in unison. To reconnect with them in this way further down the line and to host this show is an honour and a joy, a true full circle moment.

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Ufomammut, Hidden (2024)

Because it’s the future, the poster with the new round of lineup additions for Roadburn Festival 2026, in always-accommodating Tilburg, the Netherlands, is a video. And Roadburn is one of few places on the planet where ‘the future’ is a hopeful prospect. While you and I live in dystopic hellscapes of various shapes and oppressive, overwhelming, strip-you-of-your-rights-on-our-way-to-passively-if-not-actively-murdering-you realities, Roadburn unrepentantly brings a sense of optimism. The future isn’t that boot on your neck. It’s whatever you want it to be.

This is a message I appreciate as much as I appreciate being obliterated by bands on stage, and surely the likes of Inter Arma, Primitive Man and Slift meet that need here, among others. Look at Warning becoming a Roadburn house band. And a full-album performance from Blackwater Holylight for a record that isn’t out until Jan. 30 — the band will be back in Europe in May for more touring and more fests, and has a US tour slated for February/March, as I think went up yesterday. I have trouble keeping up sometimes with when things are actually getting posted these days. See horrors above.

A beacon amid perennial awfulness and distraction:

Maruja, billy woods, Inter Arma, aya and many more announced for Roadburn 2026

Roadburn festival has today announced a second wave of bands for the 2026 edition which will take place between April 16-19 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Among the names announced today are festival favourites Inter Arma performing their epic 2014 release The Cavern for the first (and last) time, American rapper billy woods, and Manchester’s genre-bending four-piece Maruja.

Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers comments:

“As the path toward Roadburn 2026 unfolds, the energy around us is rising. Every connection, every sound, every spark of creativity is drawing us closer together as the festival comes into view. This second announcement marks another step on that journey, an open invitation to feel the pulse of what’s ahead.

“The artists at the heart of this year’s edition are each shaping worlds of their own, their past, present, and future intertwining in bold new ways. At Roadburn 2026, you’ll hear echoes of where we’ve been, glimpses of where we’re going, and the raw emotion of right now. Each performance will remind us that art can move us, heal us, and bring us together – that through music, we find our shared humanity.

“We’re letting optimism light the way. Let’s meet in Tilburg next April – alive, open, and ready to share this amazing energy, face to face.”

All ticket and accommodation options for Roadburn are on sale now and more information including the full line up can be found at roadburn.com

The latest additions to Roadburn 2026 are as follows:

Additions to Roadburn 2026:

Ak’Chamel
aya
Backengrillen
Blackwater Holylight performing Not Here Not Gone
billy woods
Haress
Inter Arma performing The Cavern
Kowloon Walled City
Mandy, Indiana
Maruja
Milkweed
Orcutt Shelley Miller
Pain Magazine
Primitive Man performing Observance and a set of early years’ material titled Remembrance
Prostitute
RÓIS
Saetia
SLIFT
Slow Crush performing Aurora and premiering a special audio-visual presentation of Thirst
Slowhole
Truck Violence
Unsane performing Occupational Hazard
Warning

These artists will join a slew of previously announced artists including Oathbreaker, Krallice, Agriculture, Habak and many more. The full line up can be found at roadburn.com

Artwork by Douwe Dijkstra

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Blackwater Holylight, If You Only Knew (2025)

Slift, Ilion (2024)