After unveiling all the headliners for the 2024 edition, Graspop Metal Meeting confirmed 84 more names for next year’s massive event! Tickets available from this Saturday on!
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Brutal Assault adds more names to the line-up, focusing on bands that deserve your attention! Check it out!
Benighted’s new track is brutal as hell! We can’t wait for the new record. How about you?
Photo Reports
Frederik’s 2023 has been a whirlwind of incredible concerts, from the electrifying performances of Rammstein to the awe-inspiring shows of Iron Maiden and Within Temptation. He’s had the privilege of capturing these unforgettable moments with his camera, creating a visual diary of his musical adventures. Also find pictures in his selection from bands like Megadeth, Against The Current, Biohazard, Alestorm, Bullet For My Valentine, The Raven Age, and LØLØ, but also a well-represented Belgian music scene with captures of Amenra, Brutus, Channel Zero, Fleddy Melculy, Psychonaut, STAKE, Slift, and Temptations for the Weak!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
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!
Belgian radio channel Studio Brussel threw a big party in VIERNULVIER for their 40th birthday with only headliners: Psychonaut, STAKE and Brutus!
Pictures of the recent Brutus concert in Trix, Antwerp with support band Junior.
The third day of Boomtown is all about heavy guitars with Wallace Vanborn, Psychonaut and Brutus.
Finally! The Belgian lock down period is over and little by little we’re able to attend gigs again. be it small ones, but it’s something… My first show sure was something though!
Brutus visited Ghent and they invited Whorses to warm up the crowd in a sold out ‘Vooruit’!
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For the third and last day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 10 more bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Serpents Oath, Archspire, Psychonaut, Mantah, Gaupa, Stake, Blind Guardian, Brutus, Killswitch Engage, and Holy Moses! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
2017 seems to be the year one-man projects had the biggest impact on C’kes listening habits!
Festival Reports
Alcatraz was a blast! A covid-proof, restrictionless, metal-laden blast! Here’s the report of the first of three days of good ol’ festival fun.
Lokerse feesten is a relatively small festival of about 15.000 people that offers big bands. Long story short, it’s a nice, cheaper festival that takes place only in the evening.
Gig Reports
Our first live outdoor festival post corona craze. Would this be the first small step towards normalcy? Join us with local heroes, Psychonaut and Brutus.
Brutus is really the sum of all of its components and although the songs are often loud and a bit dirty, they seem to be built up in a rather fragile way.
When talking about Brutus we’re talking about a band that delivers the same atmosphere and energy live as they produced it on their albums.
