It was Doomed & Stoned's first official year at The Big Dance, though we've previously had team members attend Roadburn Festival, the now decades-long underground heavy music fest in The Netherlands. Famous for its collection of avant garde, doom, sludge, black, and death metal each year, I was pleasantly surprised when Sally Townsend told me she wanted to document it all for Doomed & Stoned this year. So for the 2019 edition of Roadburn Festival, Sally was dispatched to Tilburg, a city that traces its roots back to at least the Middle Ages, becoming a major producer or and trading post for wool.
"The challenge with Roadburn, as compared to say Psycho Las Vegas," Sally tells us, "is there is six stages so it's impossible to capture everything, you need to make some tough decisions! There's clashes and one venue is a 10 minute walk from the other, and the small rooms fill up quick so if there was someone I wanted to shoot on a smaller stage I'd need to line up about half hour before the set started to make sure I could be in the front to get shots. Only two stages have a photo pit. This is why I only got 4/5 bands a day. That being said, know that I know this it'll be easier to plan my days next year definitely hoping we can make this and annual thing!"
Following are the sights of Roadburn Festival 2019, as witnessed by Sally's always insightful lens.
All Bitches Die by LINGUA IGNOTA
 LET THE EVIL OF HIS OWN LIPS COVER HIM by LINGUA IGNOTA
Earth Air Spirit Water Fire by Selim Lemouchi And His Enemies (Ván Records)
 III: Tabula Rasa or Death and the Seven Pillars by The Devil´s Blood
Great Escape by Crippled Black Phoenix
 Horrific Honorifics by Crippled Black Phoenix
Cast of Static and Smoke by Vile Creature
 A Pessimistic Doomsayer by Vile Creature
Why Aren't You Laughing? by GOLD
Electric Guitar One by Emma Ruth Rundle
 On Dark Horses by Emma Ruth Rundle
Plus Une Main A Mordre by THROANE
 Derrière-Nous, La Lumière by THROANE
 What One Becomes by SUMAC
The slow dying of the Great Barrier Reef by Bismuth
Final Transmission by Cave In
 White Silence by Cave In
To the Night Unknown by MORNE
You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters
 Canada Songs by Daughters
Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism by Old Man Gloom
 Seminar III: Zozobra by Old Man Gloom
