Metal
The heavier end. Belgian death, doom and black metal, Graspop Metal Meeting, the labels and the small venues, and a scene with more international reach than its size suggests.
Part of The Belgian Sound
50 moments in this segment.
- - Acid - Belgian speed-metal pioneers. Acid, the Wallonian speed/heavy-metal act, one of Belgium's first international metal exports.
- - Ostrogoth - "Full Moon's Eyes". Ostrogoth, Ghent's NWOBHM-styled heavy-metal band.
- - Cyclone - "Brutal Destruction". Cyclone, early Belgian thrash metal (1986).
- - Target - Belgian technical thrash. Target, an ambitious Belgian tech-thrash band.
- - Channel Zero - "Suck My Energy". Channel Zero, Belgium's crossover-thrash flagship.
- - Agathocles - the mincecore legends. Agathocles, Belgium's grindcore institution and the 'mincecore' originators.
- - Channel Zero - "Help!". Channel Zero's thrash cover of the Beatles.
- - Channel Zero - Suck My Energy. Channel Zero, Belgium's foremost metal band.
- - Ancient Rites - "Blasfemia Eternal". Ancient Rites, pioneers of Belgian black/epic metal.
- - Enthroned - "XES Haereticum". Enthroned, veterans of the Belgian black-metal underground.
- - Aborted - "The Saw and the Carnage Done". Aborted's brutal Belgian death metal at its peak.
- - Leng Tch'e - Belgian grindcore. Leng Tch'e, a Belgian grind institution.
- - Length of Time - Belgian metalcore. Length of Time, a Belgian metalcore/hardcore band (2007).
- - Enthroned - “Vortex of Confusion”. Enthroned, a pillar of the Belgian black-metal scene, “Vortex of Confusion”.
- - Emeth - Belgian death metal. Emeth, a Belgian death-metal act.
- - Channel Zero - "Black Fire" (reunion era). Channel Zero's comeback, headlining Graspop.
- - Amenra - "Mass V" era. Amenra's monumental 'Mass V', the Church of Ra at its heaviest.
- - Steak Number Eight - "The Sea Is Dying". Steak Number Eight (later Stake), the young Belgian post-metal breakout.
- - Evil Invaders - speed metal revival. Evil Invaders, the Belgian speed-metal revivalists.
- - Oathbreaker - "Being Able to Feel Nothing". Oathbreaker's blackgaze masterpiece from Rheia.
- - The Setup - Belgian hardcore. The Setup, part of the Belgian hardcore scene.
- - Aborted - Belgian death metal. Aborted, the long-running Belgian death-metal machine.
- - Oathbreaker - "Second Son of R.". Oathbreaker, Church of Ra's blackgaze force.
- - Graspop Metal Meeting - the home of Belgian metal. Graspop, Dessel's giant metal festival (2016).
- - Amenra - A Solitary Reign. Amenra's crushing post-metal from Kortrijk.
- - Amenra - "Children of the Eye". Amenra's crushing post-metal.
- - Brutus - "Sugar Dragon". Brutus's soaring post-metal.
- - Emptiness - avant-garde metal. Emptiness, the experimental Belgian metal band.
- - Hemelbestormer - atmospheric post-metal. Hemelbestormer, Belgian atmospheric sludge/post-metal.
- - Briqueville - masked post-metal. Briqueville, the enigmatic masked Belgian post-metal collective.
- - Amenra - "A Solitary Reign". Amenra, the Kortrijk post-metal collective and Church of Ra.
- - Bathsheba - "Ain Soph". Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Ain Soph · Bathsheba
- - Wiegedood - Belgian black metal. Wiegedood, part of the Church of Ra black-metal wing.
- - Aborted - "Bit by Bit". Aborted's modern technical death metal.
- - King Hiss - Belgian sludge. King Hiss, a heavy Belgian sludge/stoner band.
- - Enthroned - "Cold Black Suns". Enthroned, veterans of Belgian black metal.
- - Amenra - "De Evenmens". Amenra singing in Dutch, a rare and intense record.
- - Killer - Belgian heavy metal. Killer, a foundational Belgian heavy-metal band from the early 80s (2019).
- - Brutus - "War". Brutus, the Leuven trio with drummer-vocalist Stefanie Mannaerts.
- - Stake - "Critical Method". Stake, the evolution of Steak Number Eight.
- - Brutus - "Fire" (live). Brutus, one of Belgium's biggest modern heavy exports, live.
- - Cobra the Impaler - Belgian metal. Cobra the Impaler, a newer Belgian metal export.
- - Brutus - "Cemetery". Brutus's soaring post-rock single.
- - Psychonaut - "Great Realm of the Endless". Psychonaut, Belgian progressive post-metal.
- - Amenra - "De Dood in Bloei". Amenra's Dutch-language crushing post-metal.
- - Hippotraktor - "A Different Now". Hippotraktor, a rising Belgian progressive-metal band.
- - Brutus - "Dust". Brutus's acclaimed 2022 single.
- - Amenra - live intensity. Amenra's cathartic live ritual, world-renowned (2023).
- - Graspop Metal Meeting 2023 aftermovie. The festival that anchors the Belgian metal calendar.
- - Graspop - a Belgian metal institution. Graspop Metal Meeting, the Dessel festival that anchors Belgian metal (2024).

