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2020 Roskilde Festival Preview
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Although the Roskilde Festival is not a “metal festival”, and is slowly moving away from being a rock festival, there is always just enough to keep people like me interested. The 2020 rendition will feature bands such as Faith No More, Deftones, Amenra, High On Fire, Nyredolk, Old Man Gloom, Elder, Youth Code, Gabestok, Eyes, Employed to Serve, Helms Alee, The Night Flight Orchestra, Oozing Wound, Bersærk, Heathe, Conjurer, Svalbard, and ORM (who has a new EP coming out tomorrow).
Bring along your daughter (as I did in 2018), and she can enjoy the likes of Taylor Swift, Anderson Paak, and Mura Masa. Just don’t ask me to name a single song from any of those artists as I can’t do it.
The stage lighting at Roskilde Festival is second to none. Unlike most metal festivals, that typically have two nearly identical stages right next to each other with similar lighting and vibe, the five main stages at Roskilde are very different, each with their own unique atmosphere.
Because it’s not a metal festival, there are opportunities to get more up close and personal with bands you love since there are probably about 100,000 people at the festival who will not be going to see the band you want to see.
Full festival tickets are still available here for about US$320, or single day tickets are about US$160. The tickets usually sell out. Last year Roskilde Festival sold out in early May.
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2019 Roskilde Festival lineup
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Six months ago, had you asked me, “who are the top three bands, still active, that you have yet to see live?” I would have answered:
Rammstein
Behemoth
Primordial
Less than five months from now, all three of those bands will no longer be on my list. Behemoth is coming to the Roskilde Festival, I’ll see Rammstein in Russia, and Primordial I’m going to see twice (in Sweden @ Gefle Metal Festival and in Czech @ Brutal Assault).
Who else should I see at the Roskilde Festival?
So far I’m planning on Ulver and Power Trip on Wednesday. For Thursday I’ll see Robert Plant, Testament, Full of Hell/The Body, and Parquet Courts (never listened to them before, but my son says I should check them out). Friday I’m teaching all day so I’ll rest up and not go to Roskilde. Saturday will be epic with Behemoth and The Cure. I’ll also check out Converge and Whores, although I’m unfamiliar with both at this point.
Favorite albums of 2018
Watain @ 2018 Roskilde Festival on the Trident Wolf Eclipse tour
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In no particular order…
Watain, Trident Wolf Eclipse
At The Gates, To Drink From The Night Itself
Black Oath, Behold the Abyss
Master’s Hammer, Fascinator
František Štorm of Master’s Hammer @ 2018 Metal Magic Festival
Tribulation, Down Below
YOB, Our Raw Heart
Mike Scheidt of YOB playing Our Raw Heart for the first time at the WOW Hall in Eugene, Oregon (February 2018)
High On Fire, Electric Messiah
A Perfect Circle, Eat The Elephant
Behemoth, I Loved You At Your Darkest
Slaegt, The Wheel
Dimmu Borgir, Eonian
Primordial, Exile Amongst the Ruins
Grusom, Grusom II
Steinar Gundersen of Satyricon @ 2018 Copenhell on the Deep Calleth Upon Deep Tour
And since I didn’t do one of these in 2017, a couple of favorites from late in 2017:
Pagan Altar, The Room of Shadows
Satyricon, Deep Calleth Upon Deep
For 2019 I’m really looking forward to new Tool and Rammstein (and seeing both bands too).