News Posts

Belgian punk/post-hardcore outfit Adverse96 released a video for the track ‘Folded Paper’, a taste of the full-length album ‘Clear The Lane’ that will be out tomorrow!

Belgian modern thrash metal outfit Primal Creation unleashed some pent-up aggression with their latest single ‘Not In my Backyard’!

Belgian funeral doom project SLOW are set to release their 7th album ‘Abîmes I’ in December via code666 and share a first track with ‘Implode’!

Belgian melodic death/thrash/metalcore heroes Reject The Sickness shared the very special video for ‘Heaven Turns Black MMXXII’!

Belgian heavy metal outfit Hunter shared a new video for the single ‘Wicked’ from their recently released new album ‘Rebel Angels Rise’, recorded at our very own Asgaard venue!

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!

Belgian death/doom metallers My Lament shared a brand-new video for ‘My Mausoleum’, a track from their recently released album ‘The Season Came Undone’, out via Ardua Music!

Belgian black metal purveyors Serpent Oath are back with a vengeance, unleashing the single ‘Blood Covenant’ with a striking video, a track from their upcoming album ‘Revelation’ set for release later this year via Odium Records!

Belgian progressive rock band Transport Aerian shared a new music video for ‘Skywound’, the title track of their latest album released in 2022 via Melodic Revolution Records!

Brand-new Belgian black metal entity Herzog announced their debut album ‘Furnace’ to be released in November via Amor Fati Productions, and shared a first track with ‘Melted Tesseract’!

Photo Reports

In the beginning of the month, the streets of Brussels turned black and the sky was filled with smoke for 3 days in a row: Rammstein was in town, and they held nothing back!

No festivals in Belgium this summer for Iron Maiden, but instead they came for an evening to the Sportpaleis venue in Antwerp for their fans to witness the heavy metal heroes live, with support of The Raven Age.

An amazing evening of singing and screaming along to the Dutch songs of the metal Belgian sensation Fleddy Melculy at the VIERNULVIER venue in Ghent. Support came from their friends of Tusky.

Cottrell

Liège-based sludge metal outfit Cottrell’s first show in Flanders in our very own Asgaard venue showed a whole lot of potential!

The Scottish pirates of Alestorm docked their pirate ship in Torhout, Belgium. A sold out venue was ready to party with them, fantasy power metallers Gloryhammer, the dwarves of Windrose and fellow pirates Rumahoy.

Black and white photo of a concert shot from the right side of the stage. The left half of the image is darkened with the audience on the bottom left. Light streams in from the top right down to the middle center, illuminating the stage. The sihouette of a guitar player can be seen at the front of the stage, approaching the crowd.

After almost 30 years of rocking Flemish stages, the legendary Clement Peerens Explosition is calling it quits or as they would say “kuist zijn schup af”. A sad loss for Belgian music, but we were there to capture them going out with a blast at one of their farewell shows at De Roma in Antwerp.

Jennifer Batten

Jennifer Batten recently did a club tour in Europe. We went to see her at her stop in Zaal Goedleven in Ghent, Belgium and were pleasantly surprised by a night filled with pop and rock classics by a music legend.

After crushing all big stages in Belgium and abroad, this is the second to last show of Rhea before they take a break performing live for at least a year. They made one hell of a rock party with the biggest mosh pits VIERNULVIER has had since a long time and support from The RG’s!

Sum 41 came to set Vorst Nationaal in Belgium on fire. They brought Cassyette and Simple Plan to support them in giving everyone a great evening.

Album Reviews

The Belgian outfit Thurisaz releases their 5th full-length, pouring their hearts and souls into it after a tough period.

Belgian metal outfit Chalice brings an appetizer to what is to become most likely a full-length release. Check it out!

Hell on Earth in Antwerp? Dance along with Spankraght’s self-released debut album, ‘Thou Shalt Drown in the Blood Of Thy Children’ to learn the full story.

Putting the spotlight on one of the nation’s forlorn gems from long ago: ‘…And Darkness Drowned the Land Divine’, the debut record from local death doom legend, Insanity Reigns Supreme.

Belgian metal band Téras delivers a nasty thrash record interlaced with the right amount of black and death metal to kick in some teeth!

The Belgian maniacs from speed metal outfit Bütcher released their second album and it’s quite the blistering metal attack!

Sludge outfit Growing Horns delivers half an hour of dark, brooding and absolutely crushing metal music with their first EP!

Rock power trio RRRags delivers an album filled with vintage rockers that’ll get you going and dancing throughout the summer times. Good vibes on this one!

After their two demo’s and three EP’s, Slaughter Messiah brings their characteristic sophisticated, aggressive and black sound

Gig Reports

DOK Brewing Co.’s latest craft beer ‘Pro-Pale’is a tribute to Pro-Pain’s Gary Meskil. What better way to celebrate it with, than a set by the NYHC legends?

Godsmack is back! This time with support from Like A Storm. Despite a few sound issues everybody had a lovely rockin’ night.

Twenty years. Two decades. Almost an entire generation. That’s how long long the Beglian rockers of Triggerfinger have been around. That calls for a celebration, right?

A fun evening of brutality, slam and an exclusive fly-in headliner show of tech death outfit Archspire!

Satanic Surfers have a special kind of bond with Belgium, or rather with the Belgium punk rock family. Their very first gig in Belgium was in Ostend actually and they were more than happy to be back. Even while it was in a tiny basement, no fucks were given this evening.

From the groove djenty melodic metalcore of Jinjer to the more thrashy sound of Soilwork , Amorphis made this evening unforgettable

Kamelot’s last stop with The Shadow Tour Europe was at Het Entrepot in Bruges, Belgium. Find out how that turned out and how exclusive the set from special guests Leaves’ Eyes actually was.

On the 10th of October Lordi came to Belgium with their Sextourcism European Tour and two very unique support acts. Find out here how the experience was.

Blood Red Throne came, drank, and conquered. A great night with some solid local death metal bands supporting a fantastic headliner.

For the tenth edition of the Darken the Moon Festival, the organization came up with a lineup that no self-respecting fan of doom metal should want to pass up. Even on a lazy Sunday afternoon in autumn.