Mad About Rock

  Headliners for Sunday 23 June 2024. With Scorpions and Machine Head we are adding the headliners for Sunday to the line-up of #GMM24. Together with Tool, Five Finger Death Punch, Judas Priest, Bring Me the Horizon and Avenged Sevenfold they will lay siege to Dessel in June 2024. Scorpions will close out the South Stage on Sunday 23 June and that same evening Machine Head will headline the North Stage. More confirmations for Graspop Metal Meeting 2024 will follow soon! Scorpions are making their fifth GMM appearance this year. With their previous stop at GMM22 the German hard rock icons proved that 60 years of rocking out haven’t dulled their edge and they still deliver a hit-laden set including ’Rock You Like a Hurricane’, ‘The Zoo’ and ‘Wind of Change’ to name but a few. Their 19th album, ‘Rock Believer’, dropped in 2022. Last summer Machine Head returned to Dessel for the first time in over a decade to headline our South Stage on Friday. Next year Robb Flynn & Co will be ba...

  Another successful edition with 220,000 fans and over 150 acts Hollywood Vampires, Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard on the main stages, Kreator in the Marquee, Billy Talent on the Jupiler Stage and Monster Magnet in the Metal Dome to name but a few - the organisation can look back on yet another memorable and sold-out edition. The festival grounds in Dessel welcomed 220,000 visitors for four full days of metal mayhem. True to form, the 2023 edition billed a varied selection of international top acts and homegrown talent. Over 150 bands gave it their all this year on two main stages (North and South), the enlarged Jupiler Stage and in the Marquee, the Metal Dome and the Classic Rock Café. The Graspop faithful ate it up and the atmosphere was exuberant in spite of the sweltering heat. No fewer than 63 of the 150 bands this year were GMM first-timers. Graspop places a strong emphasis on up-and-coming bands of the new generation, giving them ample opportunities to ply their trade in front...

Belgium’s Extreme Metallers EVIL INVADERS have recently released the details of their upcoming album entitled Feed Me Violence. This brutal attack of an album will be released worldwide on September 29th via Napalm Records and has so much to offer. If you weren’t excited already, the band has another special treat! They have unleashed their first video from Feed Me Violence for the song “Mental Penitentiary”.  Check out the video below: Vocalist/guitarist Joe commented on the first track: “One of the faster songs on the record and definitely one of the coolest tracks we've written so far! Pretty intense lyrics, which are definitely worth checking out! The mid tempo part in the middle gives a nice contrast with the fast shit that's happening before and after. Making this video was compulsive endless lunacy! Fortunately only the camera guy got injured...” Feed Me Violence will be available in a regular Jewel Case edition, 1LP Gatefold Edition and a digital edit...