“It’s perhaps fitting that Tilburg is the boyhood home of Vincent Van Gogh, since I can only imagine what his missing ear would make of the amps-on-stun overload that characterizes the Roadburn Festival. I am here courtesy of artistic director Walter / Roadburn, and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth, who is curating the Friday of this four-day indoor festival. The emphasis is on harder rock, presented to an ubiquitous sea of black t-shirt logos and long hair, but Mikael’s chosen artisans cover a broad range of styles, from the delicate acoustic-femme harmonies of Promise and the Monster to the prog-jazz of Magma to the doom-metal of Candlemass: kind of like Opeth’s stylistic outreach itself” -- Lenny Kaye.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:27:15 +0000
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