In about half an hour, the gates of Tuska 2026 are opening and in less than an hour the first riffs will take over the area. Besides the obvious big names, we picked out 6 shows we highly recommend you go see from festival openers Gatecreeper, to reggae infused Aurorawave and Skindred, the funky hardcore of Slope, alt-metallers Awake Again and party of the day drum n bass princess Nenerchy! See you there!
Dutch groove hardcore youngsters Inherited have announced their new EP ‘ALL 4 ONE’ to be out in October via Mascot Records and unveiled the video for the track ‘Inherited’!
Canadian hardcore heavyweights Get The Shot unleash pure hardcore fury on new single ‘Feed Me To The Pigs’, out with Arising Empire!
Iconic hardcore outfit Hatebreed signed to BLKIIBLK for the release of their upcoming new album and are gearing up to invade both Europe and the USA by doing what they do best, bringing venues and festivals like Hellfest, Tolminator and Alcatraz to their knees by a crushing show!
8 summer events that are reason enough to visit Belgium in 2026
Alternative, Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Death Metal, Deathcore, Doom Metal, Electronic Music, Extreme metal, Folk Punk, Hard Rock, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Industrial, Metalcore, Modern Metal, New Wave, Pop, Post-Punk, Power Metal, Punk, Punk Rock, Symphonic Metal, Thrash MetalBelgium may be small, but when it comes to summer festivals, it punches well above its weight. From heavy and alt fests Graspop and Alcatraz to the more commercial Pukkelpop and Rock Werchter, the concert series of Lokerse Feesten and Live Is Live to the small and cosy Rock Zottegem and Parkpop Oostkamp, we’ve selected eight Belgian summer events that are reason enough to visit our home country in 2026. Which one is already on your calendar?
Dutch heavy hardcore outfit Trenchwar has signed with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut full-length!
Employed To Serve is back with their bludgeoning new single ‘Dead Reckoning’, out via Church Road Records just in time for their summer tour where they’ll appear at several Europe festivals like Tolminator and Wacken and play shows with In Flames, Unearth and Of Mice and Men!
UK outfit Burner announced their album ‘No One Is Coming To Save Us’ to be released in September with Church Road Records and unveiled single and music video ‘Sunrise, Parabellum’ featuring Matthew K. Heavy of Trivium!
NYHC kings Madball announced their new album ‘Not Your Kingdom’ to be out in July via Nuclear Blast and shared the first new single ‘Rebel Kids’!
Hardcore heroes Pro-Pain are about to unleash their new album ‘Stone Cold Anger’ with Napalm Records tomorrow, May 15th and unveiled the title track with a lyric video in anticipation!
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