The 1993 full-length from Australian death/doomers diSEMBOWELMENT, Transcendence into the Peripheral, is considered one of the high points of the genre and then some. Fitting then, that the semi-reactivated lineup of d.USK have been invited to perform the album in its entirety at Roadburn 2012. One more thing to look forward to in a stellar lineup that already includes Sleep and Voivod twice over.

News came down via Roadburn‘s site:

Roadburn is honored and proud to welcome for their first ever European performance, d.USK, the final embodiment of diSEMBOWELMENT, whom will play an exclusive set of diSEMBOWELMENT’s legendary funeral doom opus, Transcendence into the Peripheral.

Commented guitarist Matthew Skarajew, “We feel that presenting Transcendence into the Peripheral in its entirety is a very unique opportunity and that Roadburn will be the perfect vehicle to realize it. I expect it will be the one and only time that it will ever happen!” 

Says drummer Paul Mazziotta, “Although we cannot give the fans 100 percent of the original lineup, Matt and I have put together a band we are very proud of, and is committed to delivering the classic material with pure integrity, energy, passion.”

Timeless, classic, and immeasurably influential, Transcendence into the Peripheral remains a groundbreaking work that typifies the Roadburn Festival’s love of the powerful and ambitious. d.USK is pleased to present this celebrated body of work to Roadburn’s mainstage on Thursday, 12 April, 2012 at the 013 venue, Tilburg, Holland.

Roadburn Festival 2012, including Sleep and Voivod‘s special event, will run for four days from Thursday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15 (the traditional Afterburner) at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Pre-sales will start Saturday, November 26, 2011.

With a subject like that, I don’t even need to post any news, but here it is anyway: Sleep will headline the 2012 Roadburn festival. Life doesn’t get much better, but I’ll save my ranting for later. Om are reportedly playing too (full on Cisernos fix!), and hopefully they’ll have a new album out by then. Here’s the news from Roadburn‘s site:

Roadburn headquarters are in a euphoric state as we report that West Coast stoner metal legends Sleep have been confirmed as the headliner at Roadburn Festival 2012. Sleep are irrefutably a seminal band of the stoner rock scene and to our elation they are coming to their spiritual home of Roadburn to anchor the 2012 festival.

Featuring original members Al Cisneros and Matt Pike together with drummer Jason Roeder of Neurosis, Sleep will be playing (a one-off show) on Saturday, 14 April 2012. Al Cisneros will also be appearing with OM together with Emil Amos and Robert A.A. Lowe, bringing their hypnotic vibrations to Roadburn‘s mainstage on Thursday, 12 April.

We at the Roadburn Festival consider Sleep to be among the most important bands influencing today’s thriving stoner/sludge/metal scene. Their vision to combine the powerful riffs of Black Sabbath with the outsider ethics of punk rock turned into an unstoppable amalgamation, one that catapulted them to international attention within a very short time. Their rapid rise and unquestionable musical significance is a testimony to the fact that they tapped into something that resonates inside virtually every fan of stoner metal today. They truly embody the spirit and power of The Riff.

This is unexpected and fascinating news. Canadian progressive metal LEGENDS Voivod have been selected to curate the 2012 installment of the Roadburn festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands. I think it’ll be really interesting to see who they select over the next couple months, and either way, with the chance to see them perform not one, but two times over the course of the 2012 fest, it’s automatically worth the trip. If you haven’t yet, no time like today to book that flight.

Here’s the news, direct from Roadburn‘s site:

Roadburn is elated to announce the curator for the 17th edition of the festival: Voivod. After the band’s widely acclaimed and artistically inspiring performances at the 2011 festival, Voivod has agreed to curate our festival on Friday, April 13, 2012.

As curator, Voivod will personally select the bands that will play during their special event at Roadburn and perform a special headline show. We had a revelation this year: namely, that Voivod and Roadburn are not only kindred spirits musically and artistically, but also on the same wavelength in other ways, too. Voivod personifies the laidback Roadburn vibe.

Respected by fans and bands that span the festival’s sonic spectrum, Voivod is the ideal pick as Roadburn’s fifth curator. The band will carry on a tradition that began in 2008 with David Tibet, followed by Neurosis in 2009, Triptykon’s Tom Gabriel Warrior in 2010 and SunnO))) at this year’s festival. After Voivod agreed to curate the Friday, we could not resist asking them to stay for a second show. It’s on! The band will appear on Saturday, April 14, 2012, too.

Away comments: “We are truly honored to curate the Roadburn Voivod day on April 13, 2012. We will make sure that the whole spectrum of experimental music influential to Voivod is represented. Thanks to the Roadburn folks for inviting us, we’re already counting the days in anticipation of the event!!”

We are truly looking forward to the new ideas and visions that Voivod will bring to the festival next year. If asked to sum up Roadburn in one word, “progressive” would be a fitting choice. Evolution is a big part of this. The festival is a tribute to the open-mindedness of its bands, curators and audience. The joy comes from expanding musical horizons and looking at familiar territory from new angles. We will definitely be in for some artistic surprises with the always-intrepid Voivod as our curator. We are excited to find out what they have in store for us!

Roadburn Festival 2012, including Voivod’s special event, will run for four days from Thursday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15 (the traditional Afterburner) at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Pre-sales will start Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011.

The march continues! I guess that’s what happens when you have something like 35,000 bands playing on three stages over the course of four days — you come out of it with a motherload of audio. This time around, new sets surface from Black Math Horseman, Aluk Todolo, Incredible Hog and Dutch natives Beaver, who were actually the only one of these four that I saw at the fest. Plenty to dig into, as always. Here are the links:

Aluk Todolo
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44948646#ondemand.44948646

Beaver
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44948782#ondemand.44948782

Black Math Horseman
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44948803#ondemand.44948803

Incredible Hog
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44948794#ondemand.44948794

Perpetual gratitude to Walter and Roadburn for allowing me to host these links. Roadburn‘s audio streams are recorded and mixed by Marcel van de Vandervoort and his team at Spacejam. Roadburn 2011 took place April 14-17, at the 013 Popcentrum in Tilburg, Netherlands.

The sixth handful of audio captures from this year’s Roadburn festival might be the most eclectic yet. Sure, past installments had the likes of Black Pyramid or Spindrift, but how many times in your life are you going to see Wovenhand next to Voivod?

That’s all part of the experience of the fest, and as always, it’s presented gorgeously on these streams by Marcel van de Vondervoort and his team at Spacejam. Dig it:

Wovenhand
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44901054#ondemand.44901054

Voivod (Midi Theatre)
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44901050#ondemand.44901050

Sabbath Assembly
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44901025#ondemand.44901025

Year of No Light (Vampyr soundtrack)
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44901058#ondemand.44901058

Circle
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44901008#ondemand.44901008

Blood Farmers (Afterburner)
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44900998#ondemand.44900998

Special thanks once again to Walter and Roadburn for granting me permission to host these links. Roadburn 2011 took place April 14-17, at the 013 Popcentrum in Tilburg, Netherlands.

Not to steal thunder from this month’s just-posted podcast, but it just wouldn’t be a series if you missed an episode. Accordingly, here is the next batch of streams recorded live at this year’s Roadburn festival at the 013 Popcentrum in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Some cool stuff here from Voivod, Soilent Green, Blood Farmers and Black Mountain and a couple I didn’t get to see from The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Jesse Sykes, plus Quest for Fire, who packed out the Bat Cave, a second set from Dragontears (if you missed the first, it’s here), and a few more, so there’s lots to check out.

Black Mountain
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44797866#ondemand.44797866

Blood Farmers (Green Room)
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44797874#ondemand.44797874

Dragontears (Midi Theatre)
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44797879#ondemand.44797879

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44797886#ondemand.44797886

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44797890#ondemand.44797890

Quest for Fire
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44800056#ondemand.44800056

Soilent Green
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44800060#ondemand.44800060

Void of Voices
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44800064#ondemand.44800064

Voivod
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44800071#ondemand.44800071

Year of No Light
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44800075#ondemand.44800075

As always, these links come at the generosity of Walter and the Roadburn crew and were captured/mixed by Marcel van de Vondervoort and his team at Spacejam. Heartfelt gratitude to all parties involved.

As ever, I thank Walter and the Roadburn crew for their generosity in allowing me to host the links to the official streams from Roadburn 2011. As we Americans get ready to celebrate Memorial Day, I can think of few better complements for a barbecue than The Machine‘s Hendrixian take on heavy jamming, or, as the evening wears on, drinks are imbibed and fists are raised in triumph, Black Pyramid‘s doomy gallop. And, of course, just in case the universe comes to a crashing end (as my work email account just did), there’s Ufomammut playing Eve in its entirety for sonic complement. You can’t ask for more than that. From life. But there’s more anyway, so enjoy the aural hubris:

Black Pyramid
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772202#ondemand.44772202

Dragontears
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772206#ondemand.44772206

The Gates of Slumber
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772216#ondemand.44772216

Place of Skulls
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772220#ondemand.44772220

Sourvein
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772226#ondemand.44772226

Spindrift
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772231#ondemand.44772231

The Machine
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772239#ondemand.44772239

Ufomammut
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44772244#ondemand.44772244

These and all Roadburn audio streams were recorded by the vigilant Spacejam team headed by Marcel van de Vondervoort (also of ass-kicking rockers Astrosoniq), so if you see him, please say thanks for all the hard work. Roadburn 2011 took place April 14-17 at the 013 Popcentrum in Tilburg, The Netherlands. If you’d like to read more than you could ever possibly want to read about it, click here.

The third batch of audio streams from Roadburn 2011 might be the best one yet. I don’t think I’ve stopped raving about how good Ramesses (above) and Sungrazer were since I got back from the fest, and with the chance to hear some bands I missed over there — my head hangs in New Jerseyan shame for not catching The Atomic Bitchwax — it’s good to at least hear what I didn’t see. You know the drill by now — here are the links:

The Atomic Bitchwax
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747228#ondemand.44747228

Carlton Melton
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747232#ondemand.44747232

Pharaoh Overlord
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747236#ondemand.44747236

Ramesses
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747240#ondemand.44747240

Sungrazer
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747252#ondemand.44747252

Yakuza
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747256#ondemand.44747256

Zoroaster
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747263#ondemand.44747263

Scorn
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/44747248#ondemand.44747248

As always, these streams were captured live at Roadburn at the 013 Popcentrum in Tilburg, Netherlands, by Marcel van de Vondervoort and his Spacejam Recording team. Special thanks to Walter and Roadburn for letting me host the links on this site.