The day is finally here! The best underground heavy music festival in the world begins today as Roadburn takes flight for its 2018 edition in Tilburg, NL. The lineup is so good, naturally, you would want to see every band, but it’s of course, impossible. Follow our sensible day by day guide to the can’t miss bands each day below.
Thursday:
Yellow Eyes, Sanhet, Zvi, Khemmis, Uniform, Waste Of Space Orchestra (Dark Buddha Rising and Oranssi Pazuzu), Earthless (1st of three sets), Arabrot, Wreck and Reference, Insect Ark, Converge (playing all of The Dusk In Us), Ex Eye, Cult Of Luna And Julie Christmas, Hooded Menace, and Weedeater.
Friday:
Mutoid Man, Crowbar, Panopticon, The Ruins Of Beverast, Solveg Matthildur, Comet Control, Panopticon, Planning For A Burial, Furia, Converge (playing all of You Fail Me), Godflesh, Jarboe ft Father Murphy, Une Misere, Igorr, Grave Pleasures, Red Octopus, and Joy,
Saturday:
Hugsjá (Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik), Bell Witch, Wear Your Wounds, Verwowed, Mania, Mizmor, Boris & Stephen O’Malley, NyiP and Wormlust, Aerial Ruin, Kjeld, Thou and The Body, Earthless and Kikagaku Moyo, Sacri Monti, All Pigs Must Die, and Old Tower.
Sunday:
Vánagandr: Sól Án Varma, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Bell Witch, Syk, Wiegedood, Spotlights, Big Brave, Project Nefast, LLNN, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Zonal ft Moor Mother, Gost, Bison, and Zuriaake