SLEEP, OM Confirmed For Holland's ROADBURN Festival

September 6, 2011

Roadburn festival organizers have announced that West Coast stoner metal legends SLEEP have been confirmed as the headliners at of next year's event. Also newly added to the festival's billing is OM, the band formed in 2003 by the rhythm section of SLEEP.

Commented the organizers: "SLEEP are irrefutably a seminal band of the stoner rock scene and to our elation they are coming to their spiritual home of Roadburn to anchor the 2012 festival. Featuring original members Al Cisneros and Matt Pike together with drummer Jason Roeder of NEUROSIS, SLEEP will be playing (a one-off show) on Saturday, 14 April 2012. Al Cisneros will also be appearing with OM together with Emil Amos and Robert A.A. Lowe, bringing their hypnotic vibrations to Roadburn's mainstage on Thursday, April 12.

"We at the Roadburn festival consider SLEEP to be among the most important bands influencing today's thriving stoner/sludge/metal scene. Their vision to combine the powerful riffs of BLACK SABBATH with the outsider ethics of punk rock turned into an unstoppable amalgamation, one that catapulted them to international attention within a very short time. Their rapid rise and unquestionable musical significance is a testimony to the fact that they tapped into something that resonates inside virtually every fan of stoner metal today. They truly embody the spirit and power of The Riff."

Roadburn festival 2012, including VOIVOD's special event, will run for four days from Thursday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15 (the traditional Afterburner) at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

For more information, visit www.roadburn.com.

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