Death metal unit Crypta revealed a 2nd furious single ‘Trial of Traitors’, getting us all excited about their upcoming new album ‘Shades of Sorrow’, set for release in August via Napalm Records!
Swedish melodic power metal act Metalite announced their upcoming new, gigantic sci-fi album ‘Expedition One’, set for release via AFM Records next year and share some background with a trailer and first single!
Day 2 of Tuhdimmat Tahdit was just as hot. Carnival Academy, Heavy Metal Perse, Antony Parviainen Trio, Turmion Kätilöt, Metalite, Wolfheart, Shereign, Before the Dawn, Brymir, Mokoma, Swallow the Sun and lastly Battle Beast. Master Events gave us a festival that is certainly worth coming back to.
Tuhdimmat Tahdit and Master Events brought one very hot festival to Tampere’s Ratinanniemi. It started with Verikalpa and ended with Beast in Black, but we also can’t forget about all the bands in between: Transworld Identity, Prestige, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Dynazty, Lordi, Mors Subita, Dead by April and Diablo.
Blasphemous black metal legion Profanatica are back with a brand-new album ‘Crux Simple’ set for release in September via Season of Mist, and share a first single with ‘Take Up the Cross’!
Hexvessel’s 2nd single ‘Ring’ from the upcoming album ‘Polar Veil’, set for release in September via Svart Records, harks back to Mat “Kvohst” McNerney’s past in black metal bands with an eerie and mesmerizing soundscape!
NIXIL unleash yet another intense black metal track with ‘In Thrall’, from the upcoming album ‘From the Wound Spilled Forth Fire’, set for release in August via Prosthetic Records!
Finnish melodeath collective Bloodred Hourglass prove yet again why their name has become more and more important in the scene with their new single ‘The End We Start From’, out via Out of Line Music!
French avant-garde black metallists Celeste released the new video and single ‘Il Se Vide Lentement’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘Epilogue(s)’, set for release in November via Nuclear Blast!
Preview Alcatraz 2023
Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Black Metal, Crossover, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Extreme metal, Folk Metal, Groove Metal, Hard Rock, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Metal, Metalcore, Modern Metal, Post-metal, Power Metal, Punk, Sludge Metal, Symphonic Metal, Thrash MetalOne of Belgium’s biggest and nicest metal festivals is celebrating its 15th anniversary and we hope to see you there! For those who haven’t been there yet, we gathered some quick information about what is going to be another awesome edition!
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