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!
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Fourth chapter, “The Enduring Spirit” of Toronto-based death metal outfit Tomb Mold offers a spectacular mix of technical/progressive elements in such a visceral and unforgotten performance. Out now digitally via 20 Buck Spin and physically next month!
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NYC based progressive death metal act Solemn Vision unleashed the single ‘Bane And Benumbed’ in anticipation of their album ‘Despite The Rise Of The Sun’ to be released next month via Black Lion Records!
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Dååth is back with the original track ‘The Silent Foray’, featuring Per Nilsson of Scar Symmetry, and have announced that they’re well on their way with their Metal Blade Records debut album and Rafael Trujillo has officially joined the lineup as lead guitarist!
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Tuska unleashed the first batch of bands for the 2024 line-up and it seems they put their chips strongly on modern metal/metalcore with Bring Me The Horizon, Bloodred Hourglass, Bury Tomorrow, Make Them Suffer, Infected Rain and Fixation, proggy music with Opeth, Vola, Voyager and Riverside, and power metal with Alestorm, Angus McSix and Brothers Of Metal. And of course, festival regulars Amorphis and Stam1na belong to the party as well!
What do you think of the line-up already? Who do you hope to be added still?
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Fifth album “Ontological Mysterium” from the US metal four-piece Horrendous is a sonic feast for fans of technical/progressive death metal. The album shines with its intricate guitar work with a superb level of technicality. Released a couple of weeks ago via Season of Mist.
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After a decade of silence from these legends, Job For A Cowboy are back with the single ‘The Agony Seeping Storm’, a first track from their upcoming new full-length to be released via Metal Blade Records!
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NYC progressive death metallers Solemn Vision announced their upcoming new album ‘Despite The Rise Of The Sun’ to be released in October via Black Lion Records and unleashed a first single with ‘Gates’!
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The last stop on the European mainland before heading towards the UK: Spiritbox with special guest Invisions, and openers Unprocessed at the Effenaar in Eindhoven, the Netherlands!
Phlebotomized’s fourth album ‘Clouds of Confusion’ is balanced between the classic nineties style of atmospheric and melodic death metal which generates a gloomy, nostalgic mood. Their music might have changed over the years, but the band still sounds fresh and unique. Out via Hammerheart Records.
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