>Ah, the amazing Roadburn Festival 2009 in Tilburg, Holland. This is by far the very best festival I’ve ever been to: amazing bands, amazing venue with an amazing sound system, amazing people, hotel amazingly located a two minute walk from the amazing venue, amazing city, amazing smokes, amazing döner kebab… What more could you wish for? The line-up this year is fantastic, and hopefully we don’t get to see as much cancellations as last year.

This is a gathering of like minded bands and fans from around the world, joined together by a love of music. This is a celebration of tube-driven distortion and crackling electric guitars, a raising of musical consciousness and brotherly and sisterly love, a communion with THEE MIGHTY RIFF, a time and place to get high en mass and bask in the heaviness.

Check this out and worship eternally (names in bold (about 30 of them) are bands I really want to see, the rest I either don’t care or know that much about):

• Neurosis
• Amebix (not official yet, but highly probable)
• Motorpsycho
• Amon Düül II
• Saint Vitus
• Bohren und Der Club of Gore
• Om
• U.S. Christmas
• Skullflower
• Six Organs of Admittance
• The Young Gods
• Mono
• Angel Witch
• Baroness
• Ufomammut
• Church of Misery
• Cathedral
• Minsk
• Rose Kemp
• Orange Goblin
• Scott Kelly
• Steve von Till
• White Hills
• A Storm of Light
• Burial Hex
• Black Sun
• The Devil’s Blood
• Wolves In the Throne Room
• Gomer Pyle
• Negura Bunget
• Farflung
• Radio Moscow
• Asva
• The Outskirts of Infinity
• Wino
• Firebird
• Akimbo
• Guapo
• Alexander Tucker
• Aderlating
• Colour Haze
• Shora
• The Atomic Bitchwax
• Roadsaw
• Saviours
• Dragontears
• Omega Massif
• The Winchester Club
• Seven That Spells
• Dead Man
• Solace
• Dyse

And there are still more bands to be added to that list! I’m still hoping that Earth and Jex Thoth will be announced soon. Neurosis, who are curating Saturday, still have seven bands to announce, so anything could happen.