Ancestors is the shit. I was just thinking to myself that it would be cool if they played Roadburn and, Holy-Shit, They ARE!

As you all may have noticed, the line-up for Roadburn Festival 2010 has been shaping up nicely.  In addition to the bands previously announced, we are very happy to announce the following acts:

JEX THOTH, with siren Jex at the helm, play a distinctive kind of psychedelic doom that encompasses Black Widow, Pentagram, and Amon Duul II. Thriving on occultism and alchemy as well, they’ll take the Roadburn attendees on an extremely interesting doom-odyssey.

“Rural as fuck, and Heathen as a Cunt and thrice as mysterious, Jex Thoth’s is a strange ministry. I imagine this quintet’s audience dwelling in scattered & out-of-the-way homesteads, rarely coming together as a community, and so obliging this itinerant quintet to spread their barbarian information out to their congregation by any means necessary; for their music contains few highs or lows of the Urban variety, and replaces obvious hooks with insidious melodies that emerge then take over our melting plastic minds.  Not for Jex Thoth the Metallic K.O. Instead, their Very Rudimentary but extremely evocative and primal sound is circular, beating-the-bounds, ever-returning to earlier themes, pummelling their audience not with a single punch to the head but through a series of muffled and hazy blows to the lower torso… a war of attrition.”

“It’s as though the music of Jex Thoth is designed to be heard only in brief snatches as though the musicians had been expected to hawk it from farm to farm, day after day, month after month, their hoary themes gradually… ever so gradually intoxicating their recipients for want of any other tunes to be had in the neighbourhood. But, while it’s good work for the Trolls when they can get it, it’s damned peculiar that such a divine chanteuse should have chosen – of her own free will – to hook up with such a gang of ne’er-do-wells” – Julian Cope, Head Heritage.

Norway’s SHINING is indisputably one of the most hard-hitting and  progressive bands from that kingdom. They are constantly pushing musical boundaries, whether avant-garde metal, jazz, prog-rock or  psychedelia. The band excels at melding these disparate musical elements into a unique genre of their own, called Black-Jazz. Over the  top and sophisticated at the very same time, Shining (NO) create energetically original and thrilling music.

There’s nothing common about the music of Los Angeles quintet ANCESTORS. To peg or try to pigeon hole the art they create would be missing the point.  Ancestors weave an unorthodox mixture of sonic textures, down-tempo riffs and rhythms, accented with well-crafted melodies and at times full-throttle assaults.  Their music is a journey through the past into the future; a signpost for a quickly emerging force of musical power and creativity.

Ancestors is the shit. I was just thinking to myself that it would be cool if they played Roadburn and, Holy-Shit, They ARE!

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Ancestors have announced they will release the follow up their critically acclaimed debut album “Neptune With Fire” on October 6th. The brand new album will be titled “Of Sound Mind”.

via Tee Pee Records - Ancestors Announce New Album, “Of Sound Mind”, Out October 6th!.