For those who thought we were finished with the announcement of Nightwish, we still have an encore. Also FOZZY will appear on August 10th in Kortrijk.
The roots of Fozzy are in Atlanta where the band was founded by guitarist Rich Ward (Stuck Mojo). Initially Fozzy is a cover band where Ward can play his favourite heavy metal songs. Alongside musician, Ward is also a big fan of wrestling and to everyone’s surprise he is able to pick up his idol , pro-wrestler Chris Jericho, as a singer. As a result they make two really nice cd’s full of NWOBHM and other classics with Jericho in a starring role. After two cd’s with covers, Ward and Jericho start to compose their own songs and the cd’s ‘All That Remains’, ‘Chasing The Grail’ and ‘Sin And Bones’ are pure heavy metal albums with a modern sound. Fozzy is a live-sensation because, as in the wrestling ring, Chris Jericho is a pure metal beast on stage. Come and see them @ AMF!
AMF – OPEN AIR
Open air? Alcatraz Metal Festival? Yes indeed, OPEN AIR! After several discussions and a lot of negotiations by night we finally made up our minds. We are taking this leap forward as a festival and leave the indoor happening for what it’s worth. Alcatraz Metal Festival has conquered its place with determination in the summer festival list. Because we are true metal heads! So we’ll take the hard way and are ready to grow.
The city of Kortrijk came up with an amazing location that suited our needs and metal spirit. We have a great location, easily accessible, a well-known city…and also a city council that has no problem with receiving some burly metal heads. Even more: our ambitions match perfectly with Kortrijk’s cultural and music ambitions!
AMF – WITH NIGHTWISH AS HEADLINER
You already knew about Doro, Anthrax and Channel Zero, and now we can proudly confirm Nightwish as our headliner. This band from Finland is a welcome guest in our region. With their crushing combination of theatrical heavy metal with a strong female voice, they were catapulted in no time to the top of the metal world. After the departure from Tarja Turunen it rumbled in the band. Anette Olzon failed to replace her. Who does, is the fantastic Floor Jansen. The Dutch (ex-After Forever, ReVamp) with her powerful voice delivers a nice variation into the band. Many Belgians and Dutch people have not seen Nightwish performing with Floor. Alcatraz Metal Festival will be one of the few opportunities this summer. Nightwish is planning just a handful of festivals and we are in! Proud? Of course! We are absolutely convinced they will not disappoint you or us. Alcatraz Metal Festival 2013: strong line-up, new location and open air. Your tickets are already ordered, right?
Alcatraz Metal Festival will take place on August 10 at the festival area KATHO in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Line-up: NIGHTWISH, ANTRHAX, DORO, CHANNEL ZERO, EXODUS, DEATH ANGEL, VICIOUS RUMORS, SATAN, FOZZY
Regular tickets and VIP + VIP XL tickets are available through the Alcatraz website.
4000 TICKETS = SOLD OUT!
Regular tickets and also VIP & VIP XL tickets are obtainable through the Alcatraz website. Meanwhile, half of the VIP tickets allowed are sold. So be quick if you choose for this formula.
Alcatraz Metal Festival stands for atmosphere and fun from day one and that principle won’t change despite of the new location. On the contrary! We have decided to invest even more in the total experience of the festival, details, and everything needed to achieve a successful metal day. Besides growing we have not the ambition to become the biggest, but especially the most conceptual and cosy Hard Rock & Metal Fest in Belgium. Equally to our identity, roots and DNA we will organise a day where the experience for the guests and artists are centred.
Regular tickets are also available from now on at: Fnac, Ticketscript, Free Record Shop and Popcenter Kortrijk
Fozzy added to the line-up
Officer Nice spotted in Kortrijk
Attentive people of Kortrijk already noticed him last week when he made his appearance in the city. Oh yes, our Officer is in the country. As being a control freak mister nice guy himself would like to speak to the people who convinced the organisation from AMF to move to Kortrijk. And you know what, our Officer is not accepting a no go. Next to the competent people from the City Hall, also Mayor Van Quickenborne and KATHO director Lieven Vandebuerie (far left) our Officer was in the right company for a collective horns up.
Through insiders we know he got tattooed by the artist Cindy Frey after his flying visit. Also here there are some pictures…which we are currently tracking. We haven’t heard from the Officer since, but rumours are saying he is retaining at the Popcenter metal store in Kortrijk where he is resisting his eviction. As long as he is not doing anything stupid…
VIP & VIP XL Tickets: Last Days!
Regular tickets as well as VIP and VIP XL tickets are still available through the Alcatraz website.
ATTENTION: last days for VIP & VIP XL tickets!!
DEATH ANGEL – EXODUS & SATAN confirmed!
We are pleased to announce Bay Area thrashers DEATH ANGEL & EXODUS + NWOBHM band SATAN are confirmed for AMF 2013.
The line-up is complete now, except for the headliner which we will announce soon: So far we will welcome:
ANTHRAX – DORO – CHANNEL ZERO – EXODUS – DEATH ANGEL – VICIOUS RUMORS – SATAN
CHANNEL ZERO & Bay Area Thrashers VICIOUS RUMORS
Belgian giants CHANNEL ZERO & Bay Area Thrashers VICIOUS RUMORS confirmed for ALCATRAZ METAL FEST 2013...
Which brings the line up on VICIOUS RUMORS – CHANNEL ZERO - DORO - ANTHRAX
More names and headliner will be announced soon!
Hell Yeah!! \m/
AMF 2013 co-headliner: Big 4 band: ANTHRAX
TV has soap operas, literature has Shakespeare, and metal – well, metal has Anthrax, that fire-breathing, thrash-spitting, multi-headed beast of a band that – 30 years since the day Scott Ian and then-bassist Danny Lilker searched a biology textbook for the disease that would become their moniker – smiles back at you with a monstrous, upturned middle finger and refuses to fucking die. But then, if you have an inkling about heavy metal, you'll have heard of their meteoric rise in the 80s alongside the likes of Slayer, Megadeth, and a little band that once crashed on Anthrax’s studio floor known as Metallica. You'll know all about their game-changing, crossover hit with Public Enemy on ‘Bring The Noise’ in 1991. You'll have listened to generations of bands that owe everything to their signature stomp and crushing riffs. And in more recent times, you'll have witnessed an almost irrational will to survive in defiance of monumental odds. And that, true believers, is the story of one of the most doggedly heroic bands in metaldom.
Doro
It was this very sophomore release ‘Hellbound’ of 1985 (being the follow-up to previous year’s debut ‘Burning The Witches’) that showcased Doro Pesch and her band mates achieving something only very few rockers and heavy metallers in Germany had accomplished back then: drawing the focus from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal to “Teutonic Metal”. It was not for nothing that the German newcomers offhandedly performed as special guests for legends such as Judas Priest, Dio and W.A.S.P. and got the chance to compete with bands like Metallica, Venom and the Pretty Maids at “Metal Hammer Festival” in 1986. At the legendary “Monsters of Rock” festival in 1986, Doro Pesch even entered the stage of this British mega-event as the first woman ever to play to 120.000 fans.
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2012
