Trivium released their new EP ‘Struck Dead’ last Friday via Roadrunner Records and unveiled a video for the title track to celebrate! Catch them live right now in North America with Jinjer and Heriot or in Europe next summer at festivals like the already confirmed Tuska!
News Posts
The Browning has started their next chapter with their intense brutal new single ‘EVOLVE’ out now with FiXT! Catch them live next summer at several European festivals, including Tuska!
Rob Zombie announced his 8th studio album ‘The Great Satan’ to be released in February next year with Nuclear Blast and shared a first single with ‘Punks And Demons’!
Tuska is bringing Megadeth to its 2026 line-up as the headliner for the Friday and adds 13 more bands to the line-up with Trivium, P.O.D., Stam1na, Lost Society, Paleface Swiss, Return To Dust, The Browning, Dogma, Slope, 802, Allt, Atlas and Kneel Before The Death! All ticket classes are available right now!
Lamb of God return with their new single ‘Sepsis’ and announce to have signed to Century Media Records! Catch them live in the summer of 2026 on the European festival circuit with already confirmed events like Wacken, Alcatraz and Dynamo just to name a few!
Avatar unleashed the new single and video ‘Death and Glitz’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Don’t Go in the Forest’, set for release by the end of this month!
Alcatraz Festival drops over 60 new names for 2026 edition
Alternative Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Crossover, Death Metal, Deathcore, Doom Metal, Folk Metal, Groove Metal, Hardcore, Heavy Metal, Industrial Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Metallic Hardcore, Modern Metal, Post-metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal, Thrash MetalThe 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!
Greek heavy groove juggernaut Full House Brew Crew announced the release of their new album ‘Glasgow Grin’ in February 2026 via ROAR and shared a first single with ‘No Gods, No Chains’! Catch them live right now in Europe on tour with Wolfheart, with this Tuesday a stop in Belgium hosted by our friends of DVG Club!
Moder nmetal powerhouse Dymytry Paradox released their new single and video ‘Red Sky Remains’ last week, out via Reaper Entertainment, marking the start of a new era for the band!
Orbit Culture unveiled another single and video with ‘Nerve’, coming from the upcoming album ‘Death Above Life’ set for release early next month with Century Media Records! Catch them on tour in Europe this fall with Gaerea and Atlas, or next festival season with already confirmed appearances at for instance Alcatraz Festival 2026!
Interviews
An interview with Alien Weaponry a band of young lions straight from New Zealand playing their first show ever at Wacken!
We talked with John Baizley about his music, new guitarist and dealing with constant pain in the rock ‘n’ roll life.
Zero Hour is on its way. Alex Agnew tells you about the album, line-up changes, comedy in relation to lyrics and more!
A talk with Dez about their European tour, “Outlaw Music”, being open for music and living as a geek!
Gig Reports
Life Of Agony still rocks the stages, this time supported by their big friend Billy with his new band Billy Bio and the dudes from Hollywood, All Hail The Yeti. Check out how hot the evening was.
Alien Weaponry definitely killed it on their very first gig in Belgium at Le Cercle, on 09/08/2018. The New-Zealander trio knows how to rule a stage, be it through the sheer power of their performance, or their interaction with the crowd.
Florida based modern metallers Trivium brought some heavy hitters with them under the form of Power Trip and Venom Prison on one of the tours of the year!
Florida based modern metallers Trivium brought some heavy hitters with them under the form of Power Trip and Venom Prison on one of the tours of the year!
Celebrating the release off their latest album, Will to Power (released with Century Media Records), Arch Enemy went out on tour selling out venues by the hand full. This can be expected when a band like Arch Enemy takes the stage with Jinjer, Tribulation and Wintersun.
In Flames & Five Finger Death Punch embark on a massive double headliner European tour and we were there at the very first stop at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki!
Photo Reports
Best of 2023: Helder’s favorite captures of the year
Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Folk Metal, Folk Rock, Gothic Metal, Gothic Rock, Groove Metal, Grunge, Hardcore, Heavy Metal, Industrial, Industrial Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Metal, Metalcore, Metallic Hardcore, Modern Metal, Nu Metal, Post-metal, Power Metal, Punk, Punk Rock, Symphonic MetalA selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
The second night of John Smith Rock Frozen 2023 was pretty epic with some of the best of the Finnish scene with Red Eleven, Kiuas, Finntroll, Turmion Kätilöt and headliners Amorphis! Throw on top of that the Swedish up-and-comers of Orbit Culture, and you know it was good!
Close to the end of the year 2023 there was an event that has left headbangers around the world in ecstatic anticipation—the Fear Factory ‘DisrupTour 2023’. This monumental tour brings together a powerhouse line-up featuring the ferocious Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis. As these bands join forces, they promise to deliver an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse range of styles within the genre.
A hot and sweaty night in the Halle room of the Backstage club in Munich. Fear Factory are back in a big way, and they were joined by Butcher Babies, Ignea and Ghosts of Atlantis, bringing quite the package with the “Disruptour” all over Europe!
Cavalera re-recorded the first two albums of Sepultura (‘Bestial Devastation’ and ‘Morbid Visions’) and are touring the world with them on the “Morbid Devastation” tour! We caught up with them at L’Aéronef in Lille, France, and we saw it was good… Support came from Max’s stepson’s band Incite…
Drowning Pool, Salive, Adelitas Way and Any Given Sin are touring the US with “The SNAFU tour” and we got to enjoy a great night of American metal/rock in Fort Wayne, Indiana!
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!
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!
Every year, one day of the 10-day long Lokerse Feesten is dedicated to metal. A day full of headbanging, mosh-pits and heavy guitars with this year Hammok, Biohazard, Doodseskader, Bullet For My Valentine, Psychonaut, Megadeth, Slift, Within Temptation, Stake and Amenra.
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