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!
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News Posts
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!
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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!
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Belgian metal festival Alcatraz confirmed 8 new names for the upcoming 2022 Summer edition!
Alcatraz Festival surprises us with a third stage this year and the full line-up for that stage. Find out here what you can expect.
Another band announcement for Alcatraz 2019! Time for some Atmospheric Black Metal from Denmark: Myrkur!
Saxon will be coming to Alcatraz 2019, with their “40th Anniversary Castles and Eagles” show! Also, 7 more bands have just been added to the lineup!
Not one, but two Japanese Metal bands will be coming to Alcatraz 2019! Crossfaith from Osaka, and Crystal Lake from Tokyo!
Thrash Metal band Flotsam and Jetsam, as well as Heavy/Power Metal band Firewind have just been announced to play at Alcatraz 2019!
Two more bands have been added to the lineup of Alcatraz 2019! Progressive Metal band TesseracT and Metalcore band Of Mice & Man.
Interviews
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.
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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…
Photo Reports
Of course, we were present again at Alcatraz Festival, trying to see as many of the awesome bands as possible. But seeing so many people having the times of their lives pulled our cameras away from the bands regularly, capturing the great community and atmosphere you could find all over the place!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with some of the most extreme music around on the Swamp Stage from Serpents Oath, Archspire, Kataklysm and Bloodbath!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere brought some of the best of the sludge, post-metal and psychedelic rock scene with Psychonaut, Gaupa, Stake, Brutus and Cult of Luna!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with on the main stage shows from Sacred Reich, Bleed From Within, Blind Guardian, Killswitch Engage and of course, the party that was Electric Callboy!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we went to get a bit of a taste of the old school heavy metal that was playing the whole day at La Morgue with EvilDead and Vicious Rumors!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we had a very black metal heavy one with Gaerea, Taake and Belphegor, old school punk with The Exploited, gloomy industrial from Godflesh and one of Finland’s favorite bands Amorphis!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with Predatory Void, Shadow Of Intent, Decapitated, and Sodom on the Swamp Stage ripping it up!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with H.E.A.T., Sepultura and Biohazard on the main stage!
On the first day of Alcatraz 2023, La Morgue had a fine collection of Belgian bands, sludge, stoner and even psychobilly with A Goat As Our Shepherd, Gnome and Mad Sin!
