After a hiatus year, Rockfest is back! New location, but also a rather action packed first batch of confirmed names for the 2025 edition with names like Muse, Judas Priest and Till Lindemann topping the bill!
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News Posts
Alcatraz Festival is a strong and outspoken supporter of the local, Belgian music scene and shared over the weekend their “Under One Flag” selection of amazing Belgian bands for the 2025 edition of the event!
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German thrash metal legends Destruction are set to release their 16th album ‘Birth of Malice’ in 2025 via Napalm Records and unleashed an eponymous battle hymn with the new track ‘Destruction’!
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Beyond the Gates announced the first wave of bands for the 2025 edition with the return of King Diamond for the first time in almost 2 decades, special sets from Abbath, Triptykon and Destruction, and on top of that I Am Morbid, Hellbutcher, Hellripper and Dark Sonority!
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Swedish blackened thrash metal force Sarcator unleashed their latest single ‘Swarming Angels & Flies’, the title track of their upcoming album, set for release early 2025 via Century Media Records!
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A speed metal bombardment has been unleashed upon the world through the first single and video ‘The Blitz’ from the upcoming Steel Inferno album ‘Rush Of Power’, to be released via From The Vaults!
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Virginia thrash titans Enforced are back with a vengeance with their upcoming EP ‘A Leap Into The Dark’, set for release next month via Century Media Records and unleashed the title track!
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Death metal outfit Rise Of Kronos teased their upcoming new album ‘Imperium’, set for release in October via MDD Records, with the single ‘Separate The Sheep From The Goats’, including a captivating video!
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Last year, at Steelfest we were blown away by the performance of Columbian power-trio Witchtrap. We loved the old school blackened thrash and speed metal, and now we get to look forward to more of it through their upcoming album ‘Hungry as the Beast’, set for release at the end of September via Hells Headbangers Records!
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East Bay thrash metal legends Sadus revealed a new lyric video for ‘The Devil In Me’ in anticipation for their upcoming shows in Europe like an appearance at Alcatraz Metal Festival. Don’t miss out!
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Photo Reports
Abbath and company came to Munich to show how black metal is done at the highest level. In their luggage came the American Toxic Holocaust and the Scottish Hellripper, who opened the night like two big explosions.
A selection of Jonna’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands Butcher Babies, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Glenn Hughes, Gojira, In Flames, Lorna Shore, The Hu, Ville Valo, Chamber of Unlight, Asagraum, Monuments, Sodom, Batushka, Blind Guardian, and Apocalyptica!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
On the 10th anniversary edition of the Belgian hard rock and metal festival Blast From The Past, they did what they do best yet again: bringing the old school to a stage near you with an impressive line-up of Angel Witch, Onslaught, Exumer, Vengeance, Witchfynde, Hitten, Existance, Steelover, and Toledo Steel!
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…
Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!
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!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with on the main stage shows from Sacred Reich, Bleed From Within, Blind Guardian, Killswitch Engage and of course, the party that was Electric Callboy!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we went to get a bit of a taste of the old school heavy metal that was playing the whole day at La Morgue with EvilDead and Vicious Rumors!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz with Predatory Void, Shadow Of Intent, Decapitated, and Sodom on the Swamp Stage ripping it up!
Album Reviews
Nocturnal Graves fourth album “An Outlaw’s Stand” is full of raptures and grits where the Aussies deliver the outright rampage of blackened thrash/death metal.
Angelus Apatrida stands for solid thrash releases hailing from Spain. For fans of Megadeth and Testament.
The second album of Belgium’s modern thrashers Primal Creation, sees them venturing into a slightly different sound than just straight up thrashing!
Nekromantheon’s latest release “The Visions of Trismegistos” is a tour de force in eighties extreme metal.
Morbid Breath releases their debut EP, In the Hand of the Reaper, an homage to the old thrash days and a promise of more great music to come.
When thinking about Texas, you’re likely to picture cowboys and country music, but it’s also the birthplace of thrash band AGGRAVATOR.After their self-titled 2019 EP which honoured the last works of their original lead guitarist late Jesse Lopez, the thrashers are back with their next EP ‘Unseen Repulsions’. It’s their first release on Empire Records […]
3 songs which gives a sense of what has been and what could have been with Bodom After Midnight. A worthy addition to Alexi Laiho’s repertoire and career. May the Wildchild rest/shred in peace.
The fourth album from thrash veterans Heathen was long overdue, but definitely worth the wait!
Thrash/death powerhouse Nervosa is back with a vengeance. With a brand new lineup and a blistering new album.
With the newest album, Sodom rides the maelstrom of violence, “Genesis XIX” is yet another worthy album added to the band’s extending catalog.
