Opening Friday was a roaring success last year so we’re more than happy to kick off our 2018 edition on Friday 10 August. We’ll be announcing a batch of new names tomorrow but today we are proud to present a major headliner for opening Friday. Status Quo, the band of co-founder and guitarist/vocalist Francis Rossi, have long since earned their place as one of the biggest icons in rock history....
The TENTH edition promises to be special in which the organization has a lot in store for her visitors. A total of 35 bands will descend to the holy grounds in Courtrai where the festival will take place for the fifth time in 2017.
The event will kick off on Friday with a real Heavy Metal Night. Five bands will perform on day 1 and turn the evening into a...
It should be no surprise the organization is announcing Within Temptation today as one of the headliners, the band with its roots deeply embedded in the metal scene has grown into a huge popular act. The band approaches to a younger and also older audience, and invariably they always ensure a spectacular show. Alcatraz refers to Nightwish, the symphonic metal band that already closed the festival twice and together with...
After their critically acclaimed number 1-CHART-album „Preachers of the night“ POWERWOLF are back with their the new masterpiece „Blessed & Possessed“. The density of hits and anthems on their sixth epic record is nearly unchristianly - firing hit after hit. The Mystic and bombastic title track “Blessed & Possessed” enthralls the listener from the beginning and leads to a top-flight direction, by presenting metal hymns with emotiveness and pure magic....
What W.A.S.P. means exactly, nobody can say with certainty. Even the extraordinaire frontman Blackie Lawless cannot tell us. Or that’s what he lets us understand. So we guess. In addition to suggestions like ‘White Anglo-Saxon Protestants’ or the more bizarre ‘We Ate Savoury Pancakes’, most votes are going for ‘We Are Sexual Perverts’, a slogan that also graced their first record. Which dates back to 1984 and then hit the...
Venom is one of those rare bands that still capture the imagination anno 2015. In the early eighties this British gang from Newcastle made a series of albums – ‘Welcome To Hell’ (1981), ‘Black Metal’ (1982) and ‘At War With Satan’ (1984) – which really shocked and changed the whole metal scene. There are probably no black metal bands who has not been influenced by Venom. Venom used to have...
Drum rolls, trumpets and a real military parade should march up now, because Alcatraz is pleased to announce SABATON as a headliner for Sunday, August 9th. Herewith we are welcoming the sympathetic Swedish power metal band since ‘The Art Of War’ made a glorious march in 2008. Belgium has always been a pioneer in recognizing the talents of Joakim Brodén, Pär Sundström and their enthusiastic gang. Who does not remember...
On Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of August, 19 bands will perform at the festival that after two successful editions and despite the good cooperation with the management of the Vives University moved to De Lange Munte. The grass field where Alcatraz came to life has now become a car park. 11 bands have already confirmed their presence to Courtrai, including Nightwish who will perform as one of the headliners....
Whether we could still add a nice thrash band to the line-up? It’s a question we received several times in the past weeks. With Sacred Reich and Toxik we actually have already two top thrash bands on the bill, but with our core audience in mind, which have been faithfully for years, we are happy to give them some extra. And the last band for this edition from AMF will...
It took blood, sweat and tears to put the upcoming Alcatraz festival together, where we had some bands in mind to program. In conjunction with the sensational and differentiated program we have made so far, CRADLE OF FILTH should not be missed. The controversial British band – revered by many as idols, torpedoed by others to the damnation of hell, a hell where they are unabated flirting and showing their...
