More bands are being confirmed for
Roadburn 2012, and this time our favourites
Agalloch are among them. Our wish list seems to be the festival organizers check list for the 2012 festival. Also confirmed are Iceland's
Sólstafir and UK's own
40 Watt Sun. All three are bands you don't want to miss out on.
From
Roadburn.com
Portland, Oregon’s
Agalloch will bring their sweeping sonic landscapes conjuring desolate forests, icy waters and fire emerging from fog to
Roadburn‘s main stage on Thursday, 12 April. The band’s highly atmospheric touchstones, which are equal parts dark ambient, drone, Nordic folk-infused black metal and dark wave, are as much a cinematic experience as a musical one.
Agalloch‘s releases – four full-length albums and several EPs over the last 15 years – are a feast for the ears in the same way that
Werner Herzog’s and
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s visual imagery is a feast for the eyes. Marrow of the Spirit (2010) is a healing, spiritual journey through the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and one of last year’s most stunning statements in metal.
Iceland’s very own
Sólstafir will appear on Friday, 13 April as part of the
Roadburn Festival. Having emerged with a sound as dark as the volcanic ash spewed by their homeland’s volcanoes, the band has evolved to excel at blending atmospheric, angst-fueled post rock with their blackened heritage, underpinned by psychedelic phrasing and an eerily, hypnotic groove for a truly mind-expanding experience. Iceland’s endless white landscapes, glowering peaks, empty valleys and shrieking winds can be heard and felt through the band’s moving, sonic elements, too.
Sólstafir have come a long way much in the same way that
Enslaved has progressed, albeit somewhat differently, as showcased on Köld (hailed as a true masterpiece) and the forthcoming Svartir Sandar, the emotional equivalent of the stormy North Atlantic.
After calling it quits in 2009,
Warning’s
Patrick Walker returns with his new band
40 Watt Sun and we are really pleased to welcome the band for a one-off show on Saturday, 14 April.
40 Watt Sun‘s stunning debut album, The Inside Room, ranks among the very best
Roadburn-related albums of 2011, and offers Walker’s distinctive melancholic voice a more prominent role. His soaring and somber pipes bless the album’s burning tracks.
40 Watt Sun‘s emotionally charged, slowcore hybrid of
Jesu meets a harder edged
Red House Painters put the band in a class of its own.
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