Organizers of the 2012 edition of Holland's Roadburn Festival have issued the following update:

"We’re very pleased to report that occult rockers DEVIL have been confirmed for the Saturday Roadburn date, Saturday, April 14th, 2012 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Founded in 2009, Norway’s Devil are a return to the heyday of proto-metal. With a stripped down, vintage, melodic sound that recalls the likes of BLACK SABBATH, PENTAGRAM and a more typical NWOBHM vibe of WITCHFINDER GENERAL, Devil‘s debut full-length,Time To Repent, offers up tales of sorcery, evil women, open graves and all manner of good clean family fun with an utter and complete lack of pretense. On stage, Devil don’t attempt any overblown grandeur either, as the band relies instead on their swaggering doom, chuggy guitar riffs and their honest to god, pure garage-metal approach. All hail Devil!"

Legendary doom pioneers THE OBSESSED will reunite to play the Roadburn Festival on Saturday, April 14th. The band will be featuring the lineup from The Church Within; Scott “Wino” Weinrich on guitar/vocals, Greg Rogers (GOATSNAKE, SONIC MEDUSA) on drums and Guy Pinhas (ACID KING, Goatsnake, BEAVER) on bass.

There is no debating the impact that Wino has had (and continues to have) on the stoner scene, and The Obsessed is the band with which he developed his signature doom songwriting and guitar sound. Formed in Maryland in 1976 as WARHORSE, they soon changed their name to The Obsessed. The original four man lineup was pared down to a power trio and they spent several years playing shows and honing their sound, culminating in the release of the Sodden Jackal 7? in1983.

The band then went on hiatus as Wino joined SAINT VITUS for a few years in the late ’80s. They reformed in 1990 with Wino joined by a rhythm section of Greg Rogers and Scott Reeder. The new lineup released Lunar Womb before Reeder left to join KYUSS. At that point Guy Pinhas joined as the bass player and the band was signed to Columbia Records and went on to release The Church Within.

The Church Within was Wino’s most critically hailed album. Despite being co-released by Hellhound Records and the major label Columbia Records, the music-buying masses were not ready to embrace doom in 1994 and instead fixated on buying records by rehashed pop-punk bands. Several factors led to The Church Within becoming The Obsessed‘s last full-length album. Despite not becoming a top-seller, the album remains hugely influential.

Wino has appeared at Roadburn in a number of guises, including: Saint Vitus, SHRINEBUILDER, SPIRIT CARAVAN, THE HIDDEN HAND, and his eponymous band, WINO. His distinctive style of guitar playing and his seemingly endless supply of great riffs has earned him a place on the Mount Rushmore of stoner rock, and now we at Roadburn are thrilled to give you the opportunity to experience the band that started the legend.

Roadburn previously announced their first-ever European performance of d.USK, the final embodiment of diSEMBOWELMENT, who will play an exclusive set of their legendary funeral doom opus, Transcendence Into The Peripheral.

Commented guitarist Matthew Skarajew: “We feel that presenting Trancendence Into The Peripheral in its entirety is a very unique opportunity and that Roadburn will be the perfect vehicle to realize it. I expect it will be the one and only time that it will ever happen!”

Says drummer Paul Mazziotta: “Although we cannot give the fans 100% of the original lineup, Matt and I have put together a band we are very proud of, and is committed to delivering the classic material with pure integrity, energy, passion.”

Timeless, classic, and immeasurably influential, Transcendence Into The Peripheral remains a groundbreaking work that typifies the Roadburn Festival’s love of the powerful and ambitious. d.USK is pleased to present this celebrated body of work to Roadburn’s mainstage on Thusday, 12 April, 2012 at the 013 venue, Tilburg, Holland.

Roadburn announced the curator for the 17th edition of the festival: VOIVOD. Other confirmed acts include: OM, SAVIOURS, SLEEP.

Roadburn Festival 2012 will run for four days from Thursday, April 12th to Sunday, April 15th (the traditional Afterburner) at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Pre-sales will start Saturday, November 26th, 2011.

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