Still about 10 months to go, Alcatraz has announced the first 50 confirmed acts for the 2024 edition of one of Belgium’s greatest rock and metal fests!

The celebration of the BlackJazz album by the Norwegians of SHINING at the Kafka in Antwerp was an intense orgasmic experience for your ears. Support came from local metal heroes Powerstroke.

Kvelertak unleashed a visual spectacle with the short film for the track ‘Morild’ from their latest album ‘Endling’, released last month via Rise Records/Petroleum Records! Catch them raging all over Europe on tour starting this weekend!

Drowning Pool, Salive, Adelitas Way and Any Given Sin are touring the US with “The SNAFU tour” and we got to enjoy a great night of American metal/rock in Fort Wayne, Indiana!

Finnish doom-laden heavy metal project Graven Sin unleashed the 2nd single ‘Cult of Nergal’, from their upcoming debut album ‘Veil of The Gods’, set for release next month via Svart Records!

Irish pagan metal legends Primordial released their new album ‘How It Ends’ via Metal Blade Records, and shared a music video for the title track to celebrate. Also, catch them at the Vltima Ratio Fest 2023 that is going around Europe right now with the company of Paradise Lost, Omnium Gatherum and Harakiri For The Sky!

Bad Wolves delivered a heavy banger of a track with the title track of their upcoming new album ‘Die About It’, set for release in November via Better Noise Music!

Australian heavy metal power straight up your earholes from Elm Street with their new single ‘The Price Of War’, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Great Tribulation’, out next month via Massacre Records!

Wind Rose is taking over Europe with their very first headlining tour “European Warfront 2023”, with support from the German heavy metallers of All For Metal and US metal outfit Seven Kingdoms, a recipe for a proper celebration of all that is classic heavy/power metal! We caught up with them at the Backstage venue in Munich and saw it was good!

The ladies of Cobra Spell are making a throw at the hottest music video of the year with their new single ‘S.E.X.’, a track from their upcoming debut full-length ‘666’, set for release in December via Napalm Records!