Finnish festival Tuhdimmat Tahdit recently announced some more names for their 2026 line-up with HOKKA, Stam1na and Danko Jones joining an already diverse and exciting roster!
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The 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!
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Beer and Metal: a perfect match now combined into a metalfest baptized “Das Oktober Metalfest”!
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!
After a quite strong month with many releases by big names, it seems like February is more dedicated to the underground!
Follow us live at one of the up-and-coming metal and hard rock festivals in Belgium! Prisoners and swamp people unite to rock!
Photo Reports
In Tom VM’s favorite pictures of the year shows off his captures of bands like Amorphis, Beyond the Black, Bury Tomorrow, Dimmu Borgir, Infected Rain, Lost Society, Opeth, Tarot, Vola, Zeal and Ardor, Amaranthe, Ankor, Beast in Black, Charlotte Wessels, Dark Tranquillity, Dear Mother, Draconian, Dragonforce, Epica, Europe, Feuerschwanz, Gene Simmons Band, Jinjer, Marco Mendoza, Moonspell, Saxon, Testament, Vandenberg and Luna Kills, of which some pictures have never before seen on our site!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Dyscordia, Orden Ogan, Beast In Black, Feuerschwanz, Channel Zero, Saxon and Amon Amarth!
Festival Reports
The report of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, filled with a quite heavy serving of hardcore music!
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Report of our 4th and last day at the legendary Wacken festival with massive shows of bands like Saxon and Parkway Drive!
Time to kick off day one of the 12th edition of the coziest metal festival ever, Alcatraz. Who has never been there doesn’t know what he is missing, great vibe, not too much side animation, a party bar El Presidio and some Alcatraz side characters and they added this year a third stage, La Morgue, with […]
Once again a great party with all our fellow inmates at Alcatraz Festival 2017!
Album Reviews
The British heavy metal juggernaut Saxon deliver an outstanding performance on the newest album “Hell, Fire and Damnation”. Musically, the veterans embrace their classic NWOBHM roots and show great ability to write mid-crushing songs. Out tomorrow, January 19th via Silver Lining Music!
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While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
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