Though it will be not even be remotely possible that I will be an attendee at the 2018 Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands, I’d like to begin sharing some of the announcements that we get to our mailbox. At the end of the day this is good content and something that might spark the more adventures types in our readership. It never hurts to expand the horizons with the stuff that is happening outside of our little Metal kingdom. Take a look down below with this recent email from their side of the media fence.

COMISSIONED PROJECT: WASTE OF SPACE ORCHESTRA
Artistic Director, Walter Hoeijmakers commented:
“Roadburn has always been about bringing people together, creating a network where the line between friend, fan, performer and artist is blurred. The very foundation of Roadburn is the community that it is built upon, around, and within. Alongside this, Roadburn has always sought to push the boundaries of creativity and expression.

These two defining facets of Roadburn have been brought together for a brand new project – or rather, two brand new projects – for 2018. For the first time, we have commissioned a two groups of entirely separate musicians to create music to be performed specifically at Roadburn. Today we’re thrilled to announce the first of those groups of musicians.”

Familiar to most Roadburners, Dark Buddha Rising and Oranssi Pazuzu are combining their forces to write and perform a new concept piece especially for Roadburn 2018. The collaboration will be titled the Waste of Space Orchestra
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