As has become tradition, Alcatraz Festival announced a healthy grab of confirmed names during this year’s edition, and the 21 bands they dropped are promising the 2026 edition to be hitting hard again!
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Belgian melodic rock/AOR outfit All I Know return with a bang with the 2-track single ‘Fire It Up’, a first taste of the upcoming second full-length album ‘Pick Your Poison’!
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Belgian psychedlic post-metal colelctive Psychonaut return with their latest single ‘Stargazer’, anoter track shared from their upcoming album ‘World Maker’, out in October via Pelagic Records!
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Belgian heavy metallers Speed queen have revealed another song from their upcoming album ‘…With a Bang!’ (out in September via High Roller Records) with the video for ‘The World Ends Tonight’!
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Slow Crush shared another hypnotizing new single with ‘Bloodmoon’, about a month before the release of their full-length album ‘Thirst’, out at the end of August via Pure Noise Records and just ahead of their show at Brutal Assault next week!
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Belgian combat metal powerhouse FireForce has returned with the new, furious single ‘Living On The Edge’, out via ROAR including a music video!
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Belgian modern metal outfit Mantah released first single ‘START’ as a taste of what you can expect from their upcoming album ‘ANTIDOTE’, set for release in October via Polderrecords!
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Belgian hard rock and metal festival Blast From The Past is back on December 6 with an amazing line-up of 8 acts like Adrian Vandenberg, Medieval Steel, Savage Grace, Highway Chile, ADX, Toxikull, Opium Heathen and Thorium! Get your tickets now!
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Belgian metal outfit Speed Queen hit you with a speed metal ‘Showdown’, a single from their upcoming album ‘…With a Bang!’, set for release on High Roller Records in September!
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Belgian shoegaze outfit Slow Crush shared the single ‘While You Dream Vividly’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Thirst’, set for release in August with Pure Noise Records! Catch them this summer at select festivals like Lokerse Feesten, Brutal Assault and Pukkelpop before they embark on a tour through a chunk of the world!
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Gig Reports
“Hey dude, how are you doing?”
– “WHAT?!”
“Err… HOW YOU DOIN’?!”
– ” CAN’T HEAR A THING MAN, I WENT TO SEE CONAN TWO WEEKS AGO AND IT WAS AWESOME!”
An arena filled with fans shouting out the lyrics and you’ve got yourself a party
An arena filled with fans shouting out the lyrics and you’ve got yourself a party
Esben And The Witch provided us with a first absolute highlight this year!
Esben And The Witch provided us with a first absolute highlight this year!
Devin Townsend Project did it again, it’s more than music, it’s an experience, read the review of the kick-off of their European tour
Oathbreaker played post black-metal with a twist to it and they didn’t dissapoint.
Photo Reports
On the first day of Alcatraz 2023, we got some serious death metal trip with Serial Butcher, Vomitory, Unleashed, Immolation, Possessed, and I Am Morbid at the Swamp Stage!
On the first day of Alcatraz 2023, we caught Eleine, Wind Rose, Rise of the Northstar, Bury Tomorrow, Powerwolf and Michael Schenker Group taking over the Prison Stage (mainstage)!
Every year, one day of the 10-day long Lokerse Feesten is dedicated to metal. A day full of headbanging, mosh-pits and heavy guitars with this year Hammok, Biohazard, Doodseskader, Bullet For My Valentine, Psychonaut, Megadeth, Slift, Within Temptation, Stake and Amenra.
In the beginning of the month, the streets of Brussels turned black and the sky was filled with smoke for 3 days in a row: Rammstein was in town, and they held nothing back!
No festivals in Belgium this summer for Iron Maiden, but instead they came for an evening to the Sportpaleis venue in Antwerp for their fans to witness the heavy metal heroes live, with support of The Raven Age.
Belgian radio channel Studio Brussel threw a big party in VIERNULVIER for their 40th birthday with only headliners: Psychonaut, STAKE and Brutus!
An amazing evening of singing and screaming along to the Dutch songs of the metal Belgian sensation Fleddy Melculy at the VIERNULVIER venue in Ghent. Support came from their friends of Tusky.
Liège-based sludge metal outfit Cottrell’s first show in Flanders in our very own Asgaard venue showed a whole lot of potential!
The Scottish pirates of Alestorm docked their pirate ship in Torhout, Belgium. A sold out venue was ready to party with them, fantasy power metallers Gloryhammer, the dwarves of Windrose and fellow pirates Rumahoy.
After almost 30 years of rocking Flemish stages, the legendary Clement Peerens Explosition is calling it quits or as they would say “kuist zijn schup af”. A sad loss for Belgian music, but we were there to capture them going out with a blast at one of their farewell shows at De Roma in Antwerp.
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