Alcatraz Festival just gave us an early christmas present by adding 32 more bands to the 2026 lineup, making it almost complete with another nice selection of metal icons, underground greats, up-and-coming bands and artists from its own Belgian soil!
The 18th edition of Alcatraz is shaping up to be historic with headliners Arch Enemy and Alestorm, legends like Soulfly, Saxon, Body Count, Rose Tattoo, extreme assaults from Immolation, Internal Bleeding, 200 Stab Wounds, Sanguisugabogg, and modern favorites like Kittie, Northlane, Animals As Leaders, The Ghost Inside.
We’re especially thrilled to see the Belgian flag flying high again with Channel Zero, Amenra, Enthroned, Psychonaut and Mantah on the bill. And let’s not forget our longtime Finnish favorites Luna Kills, making a big step onto the Alcatraz stage!
On top of that, the Prison Stage opens already on the Thursday for the first time ever, and day ticket prices are lower than 2025 right now!
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!
Alcatraz Festival is a strong and outspoken supporter of the local, Belgian music scene and shared over the weekend their “Under One Flag” selection of amazing Belgian bands for the 2025 edition of the event!
Armored Saint is set to reissue their ‘Revelation’ and ‘La Raza’ albums on vinyl next month via Metal Blade Records and are starting their European summer tour today at Headbangers Open Air, taking them also to festivals like Wacken and Alcatraz Festival!
East Bay thrash metal legends Sadus revealed a new lyric video for ‘The Devil In Me’ in anticipation for their upcoming shows in Europe like an appearance at Alcatraz Metal Festival. Don’t miss out!
Swedish rockers Eclipse unveiled their new single and video ‘Falling To My Knees’, out via Frontiers Music, in anticipation of their upcoming summer tour that’ll take them to festivals all over Europe, including one of our favorites: Alcatraz in Belgium!
American death metal legends Massacre have signed a record deal with Agonia Records for their upcoming 5th album!
Catch them live in 2024 at festivals like Alcatraz and Hellsinki Metal Festival!
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!
Eleine announced an extensive European tour as support for the “I Am On Tour 2023” Pain tour with special guests Ensiferum and fellow support Ryujin! And don’t forget to catch their new album ‘We Shall Remain’ next week, released via Atomic Fire Records!
We met up with Motörhead legend Phil Campbell at Alcatraz Festival this past Summer to talk about the “50 years of Motörhead” tour (that continues this November with one last run in Europe, don’t miss out), rocking out with his sons in Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, and a bunch more things seasoned by his usual mix of humor, honesty and no-nonsense attitude!
We sat down with Svalbard at Alcatraz 2023 to have a chat about their new album ‘The Weight of the Mask’ (out October 6th via Nuclear Blast) and the importance of the mental illness topic on it, talking about what they would say to someone who struggles and what they hope the music could mean to their listeners.
Read the chat we had with Kissin’ Dynamite’s lead guitarist Jim Müller about the new album ‘Not the End of the Road’!
Watch the chat we had with Markus Vanhala about the new Insomnium EP ‘Argent Moon’, the upcoming new work of Omnium Gatherum and his new black metal project I Am The Night!
With Crossfaith visiting Alcatraz Festival, An opportunity presented itself to ask Kenta and Hiroki some questions. Read about their bad and good tour experiences and more!
With Crossfaith visiting Alcatraz Festival, An opportunity presented itself to ask Kenta and Hiroki some questions. Read about their bad and good tour experiences and more!
After their excellent performance on the Swamp Stage at the Alcatraz festival, we had a nice little chat with Bjorn, Sylvain and Sebastian.
After their excellent performance on the Swamp Stage at the Alcatraz festival, we had a nice little chat with Bjorn, Sylvain and Sebastian.
Moonspell is bringing a new album soon and if we may believe them, it’s going to be a rumbling one… More about that and other things from Pedro!
We talked with Aaron and Walt about their upcoming album “Medusa” and their music while having a ton of laughs…
On the last day of Alcatraz 2025, we get 10 more fantastic Belgian bands served up, going from mesmerizing atmosphere makers like Briqueville and Alkerdeel, to absolute mayhem from bands like Bark, Devastatiön, Slaughter Messiah and Cobracide, hardcore legends Congress and Whatever It Takes, rockers Promise Down or goth-tinged heavy metallers Cult of Scarecrow! Something for everyone and again proof how rich the Belgian heavy music scene is…
This weekend is the highlight for us and many among us in Belgium with the 2025 edition of Alcatraz Festival, but if you still haven’t decided to go, here are 10 reasons why we believe you should just go ahead and go get you some tickets still… What are you looking forward to the most for this year’s edition?
The second day of Alcatraz 2025 delivers yet another trio of Belgian stage openers with the power metallers of Magic Kingdom on the Prison Stage, metalcore outfit Signs of Algorithm blowing the roof off the Swamp Stage and modern thrash wrecking crew Primal Creation causing mayhem on La Morgue!
On the first full day of Alcatraz 2025, 3 out of 4 stages will be opened by some Belgian gems, some banging heavy metal from Room13, atmospheric and melancholic doom with Splendidula and brutal death with a wink and a grin from Coffin Feeder!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, our homecountry of Belgium has some great events to offer, so here are 7 festivals that might make it a great place to go for you this year with the very last Wildfest this weekend, dunk!festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, Litha Fest, Lokerse Feesten, Rock Werchter and Alcatraz!
In 10 days, Kortrijk in Belgium, will turn the heavy up again with Hell’s Balls Belgium, just like they do every summer with Alcatraz festival. In case you weren’t sure yet why you should go, here are what we think are valid reasons for you to be there…
What are you the most excited about of this year’s editions of the festival? Let us know in the comments!
With about a week to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2024 and join in with the fun! With a stellar line-up, including some of the best the Belgian scene has to offer and a great organization trying to improve your festival experience year after year, it’s promising to be one hell of a weekend again!
With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
