While the first edition was still going strong last Saturday, Ankea Festival was already looking ahead and announced the first 7 names for next year’s edition with Igorrr, Alcest, Kalandra, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Long Distance Calling, Vulkan and Karmanjakah! Limited early bird tickets available now!
While we’re still trying to digest how crazy this year’s edition of Brutal Assault was, we’re already getting hyped up about 2026 with a first 14 names confirmed and they’re good ones!
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!
Popular French shoegaze act Alcest released a brand-new live video for ‘Améthyste’, a track from their latest album ‘Les Chants De L’Aurore’, released via Nuclear Blast! Catch them live the coming months in North America and Asia, or this summer in Europe at festivals like Tuska!
Blackgaze pioneers Alcest announced their new album ‘Les Chants De L’Aurore’ to be released in June via Nuclear Blast and shared a first mesmerizing track with ‘L’Envol’!
Alcest took one of the hits of their latest album and turned it into an acoustic alternative pop version for all of us to enjoy.
Out of nowhere, Graspop just dropped 74 new names for their 25th edition.
French blackgaze pioneers Alcest is touring throughout Europe in 2020, in the wake of their upcoming release “Spiritual Instinct”!
Alcest joins the Nuclear Blast family to release their next album!
Belgium 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?
Again, 2019 was an incredible year for music. Check out what we think were the albums of the year!
2017 seems to be the year one-man projects had the biggest impact on C’kes listening habits!
It’s the ‘Age of Aquarius’ with Perturbator’s sixth album. James Kent brings a much more balanced first record for Nuclear Blast with a bunch of interesting guest contributions!
The founders of blackgaze, Alcest, are back with yet another opus!
Pictures of a magical night with Alcest, a powerbomb by the name of Bird In Row and the mystical synth music from Kælan Mikla!
The godfathers of blackgaze, Alcest, are back on the road, with a brand new record under the arm and we were at their stop in Helsinki!
