Cowboys & Aliens Concert History

from the city of Bruges. C&A was formed back in 1996 by John Pollentier (guitar), whose actual purpose was to create alternative music. That path drastically changed when Kris Vandekerckhove joined on bass. Inspiration was taken from the ultra heavy riffs of Black Sabbath, and those were completed by ultra swinging rhythm guitars. Henk Vanhee added the final touch with his voice so powerful and strong that it can be compared to the voices of John Garcia.

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Cowboys & Aliens Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 07, 2026
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2026 Day 2 (Friday)
Slaughter To Prevail / Savatage / Body Count / Armored Saint / Udo Dirkschneider / Combichrist / Crimson Glory / Vended / Masterplan / Amenra / Igorrr / HEALTH / Soen / Celeste / Monolord / Coven / Insanity Alert / Dead Serious / Bleed From Within / Thy Art Is Murder / Alien Ant Farm / Merauder / 200 Stab Wounds / Bleedskin / Temptations for the weak / VURT / Hope Erodes / Cowboys & Aliens / Chained Saint / Witch Club Satan / Graceless / Modder / A thousand sufferings / Sons Of Lioth / Hope as a weapon / DJ Dikke Dennis / DJ Nathachelet / DJ Metalandy / Andries Beckers / DJ Eric Hutchinson / Vanstjinberge & Vanstjinberge / DJ Kingfisher / DJ Tône / DJ Skullz Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Show Duplicates for Aug 07, 2026
Aug 07, 2026 –
Aug 09, 2026
Alcatraz Open Air 2026 August 7 Day 2
Masterplan / Vended / Crimson Glory / Combichrist / Udo Dirkschneider / Armored Saint / Body Count / Savatage / Slaughter To Prevail / Dead Serious / Insanity Alert / Coven / Monolord / Celeste / Soen / HEALTH / Igorrr / Amenra / Hope Erodes / VURT / Temptations for the weak / Bleedskin / 200 Stab Wounds / Merauder / Alien Ant Farm / Thy Art Is Murder / Bleed From Within / Hope as a weapon / Sons Of Lioth / A thousand sufferings / Modder / Graceless / Witch Club Satan / Chained Saint / Cowboys & Aliens / Warrior Soul / DJ Skullz / DJ Tone / DJ Kingfisher / VanStjinberg&vanstjinberge / Eric Huchtence / Andries Beckers / MetalAndy / Dj Natachalet / DJ Dikke Dennis Show all bands
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Alcatraz Open Air 2026 Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 06, 2026 –
Aug 09, 2026
Alcatraz Open Air 2026
200 Stab Wounds / Alcest / Amenra / Alestorm / Alien Ant Farm / Animals as Leaders / Amorphis / Anaal Nathrakh / Arch Enemy / Armored Saint / Aura Noir / Biohazard / Blackbraid / Bleed From Within / Bloodbound / Body Count / Breakout / Brutal Sphincter / Carach Angren / Castle Rat / Channel Zero / Chelsea Grin / Combichrist / Coroner / Crimson Glory / Deceased / Deicide / Der Weg Einer Freiheit / Enthroned / Firespawn / Fit For An Autopsy / Graceless / Gutalax / Hate / Hatebreed / Heidevolk / Igorrr / Imminence / Immolation / Internal Bleeding / Kittie / Kylesa / Lamb Of God / Luna Kills / Mantah / Merauder / Metal Church / Midnight / Mikkey Dee / Miracle of Sound / Monolord / Mortal Scepter / Municipal Waste / Mushroomhead / Nevermore / Northlane / Of Mice & Men / Orbit Culture / Paleface Swiss / Powerwolf / Psychonaut / Ratos De Porao / Revocation / Rise of the Northstar / Rose Tattoo / Sacred Reich / Sanguisugabogg / Satyricon / Savatage / Saxon / Slaughter To Prevail / Soen / Soulfly / Terror / Testament / The Ghost Inside / Thy Art Is Murder / Udo Dirkschneider / Vacuous / Vended / Voivod / Warkings / Warrior Soul / A thousand sufferings / Aeveris / Cowboys & Aliens / Coven / Cyclone / Divided / Encounters / Firewind / Funeral Dress / Graphic Nature / HEALTH / Hemelbestormer / Hope Erodes / Insanity Alert / Izegrim / Jungle Rot / Left To Die / Masterplan / Misbyrming & Nergal / Modder / Mortal Sin / Nefarious / Poseydon / Primus / Ronker / Sons Of Lioth / Steengruis / Tailgunner (UK) / The Troops of Doom (BR) / Turpentine Valley / Wings of Steel / Witch Club Satan / Your Highness / Dead Serious / Temptations for the weak / Duskling / Death Angel / Celeste Band / VURT / Hope as a weapon Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Jun 26, 2026 –
Jun 27, 2026
Grensrock 2026
Jasper Steverlinck / Admiral Freebee / Daan / Tourist LeMC / Cowboys & aliens / OPROER / Alice Mae / Wijf / Triple A / Captain Kaiser / Boskat / Huracan / Bonnes Muziekcarrousel / Dirk Stoops
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Park Ter Walle Menen, Flanders, Belgium
Mar 12, 2026 –
Mar 14, 2026
Rulder / Radiophone / Bunch of Maniacs / Cowboys & aliens

Brugotta Metal Weekend

Magdalenazaal Bruges, Flanders, Belgium
Dec 06, 2025
Weedeater / Hemelbestormer / Cowboys & Aliens / Modder / Spaceslug / Von Thoma Tapes

Empire of Groove II

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muziekclub N9 Eeklo, Flanders, Belgium
Nov 15, 2025
Cowboys & aliens
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DVG Club Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
May 22, 2025
Cowboys & Aliens Het Manuscript Ostend, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 17, 2024
Bizkit Park / Stake / Subliminal Verses / Korn Again / Cowboys & Aliens

Parkpop

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Oostkamp, Flanders, Belgium
Dec 10, 2022
Cowboys & Aliens

EP release

De Snuffel Bruges, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 12, 2022
Cowboys & Aliens
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium
Aug 12, 2022 –
Aug 14, 2022
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2022
The Darkness / As I Lay Dying / Arch Enemy / Lacuna Coil / Static-X / Testament / Accept / Dope / Hatebreed / Cannibal Corpse / The Black Dahlia Murder / Exodus / Katatonia / Amaranthe / Napalm Death / TesseracT / Stratovarius / Korpiklaani / Unearth / Sick of It All / Satyricon / Death Angel / Electric Callboy / Enslaved / Insomnium / D.R.I. / Pentagram / Suffocation / Madball / Dark Funeral / Eyehategod / Butcher Babies / Watain / Pallbearer / Life Of Agony / Ignite / Sólstafir / Igorrr / Gotthard / Aborted / Monolord / Dozer / Rivers of Nihil / Krisiun / Misery Index / VOLA / My SLeeping Karma / Loudness / King Buffalo / Abbath / Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals / Wo Fat / Bloodywood / Satan / The Night Flight Orchestra / Uli Jon Roth / Benediction / Necrophobic / Exhorder / Heathen / Vandenberg / Uada / Parasite Inc. / The 1914 / Tallah / Hangman’s Chair / Cyclone / Panzerfaust / Enforced / Thanatos / Bark / Warhead / Saille / BillyBio / Wolvennest / Angel Crew / Hemelbestormer / Your Highness / Hippotraktor / URNE / My Diligence / Vio-Lence / Marche Funebre / 1914 (UA) / Fractured Insanity / Speed Queen / STÖNER (USA) / Darqo / Lethal injury / Motsus / Turbowarrior of Steel / Temptations for the weak / Von Detta / Liar H8000 / Grotto (BE) / Woyote / Bear (BE) / WildHeart (BE) / Warkings / Funeral Dress / April Art / Vended / Mgła / Cowboys & Aliens / Behemoth / Diamond Head Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
May 21, 2022
Cowboys & aliens

Fuzz25

HAL25 Alkmaar, North Holland, Netherlands
Aug 14, 2021
Cowboys & aliens

Alcatraz Metal Festival

Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 13, 2021 –
Aug 15, 2021
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2021
Epica / At The Gates / Tarja / Kissin' Dyamite / Unleash the archers / King Hiss / Thundermother / Channel Zero / Mayhem / Moonspell / Suicidal Angels / Brutus / The Vintage Caravan / Black Mirrors / Killer / Cyclone / Ostrogoth / White heat / Thorium / Fireforce / Drakkar / Eternal Breath / Heilung / Orden Ogan / Destruction / Seven Witches / Fleddy Melculy / Burning Witches / Spoil Engine / Discordia / Emperor / Hypocrisy / Dark Tranquillity / Bizkit Park / Omnium Gatherum / Funeral Dress / Rykers / Necrotted / Monkey3 / Cowboys & aliens / Alkerdeel / Rawdriguez / Feed / Powerstroke / Atomic Vulture / Psychonaut / Carneia / Kreator / Eluveitie / Doro / Jinjer / Eclipse / Raven / Evil Invaders / After All / Ruskaja / Amenra / Stake / Vio-Lence / Marduk / Asphyx / Artillery / Sloper / Loudblast / Wiegedood / Bark / Thurisaz / Lalma / Huracan / Growing Horns / Haester / Tim's Favourite / The Grave Brothers / Udo Dirkschneider Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 12, 2021 –
Aug 15, 2021
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2021
The Darkness / As I Lay Dying / Lacuna Coil / Static-X / Testament / Cradle of Filth / Katatonia / Eluveitie / Dark Tranquillity / Sick of It All / Satyricon / Death Angel / Emperor / Enslaved / D.R.I. / Tarja / Darkest Hour / Pentagram / Moonspell / Madball / Butcher Babies / Life Of Agony / Marduk / Wolves in the Throne Room / Destruction / Heilung / Havok / Gloryhammer / Dozer / Monolord / The Iron Maidens (Tribute to Iron Maiden) / Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals / Uli Jon Roth / Monkey3 / Necrophobic / Benediction / The Vintage Caravan / Exhorder / Vandenberg / Suicidal Angels / The Night Flight Orchestra / Uada / Thundermother / Bloodywood / Wiegedood / Killer / Burning Witches / Funeral Dress / Black Mirrors / The 1914 / Ryker’s / Cyclone / Evil Invaders / Loudblast / Udo Dirkschneider / Seven Witches / Hatriot / Ostrogoth / Saille / Grotto / King Hiss / Stake / Atomic Vulture / Your Highness / Dyscordia / My Diligence / Bizkit Park / Huracan / Sunpower / Carneia / 1914 (UA) / Haester / Motsus / Darqo / Growing Horns / Von Detta / Rawdriguez / Channel Zero / Brutus / Mayhem / Fleddy Melculy / Hypocrisy / Psychonaut / Powerstroke / Cowboys & Aliens / Ruskaja / Jinjer / Sloper / Amenra / Thurisaz / Bark Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 09, 2019
Cowboys & aliens

Alcatraz Metal Festival

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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 09, 2019 –
Aug 11, 2019
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2019
Of Mice & Men / Opeth / Meshuggah / Soulfly / Uriah Heep / Saxon / Thy Art Is Murder / Soilwork / Napalm Death / TesseracT / Powerwolf / Avatar / Bury Tomorrow / Deicide / Avantasia / Decapitated / Sodom / Prong / Rotting Christ / Myrkur / Metal Church / Hypocrisy / Anvil / Crossfaith / Voivod / Amenra / Firewind / Sacred Reich / Flotsam and Jetsam / Alien Weaponry / Crobot / Unleashed / Sanctuary / Nervosa / Demolition Hammer / Glowsun / Wayward Sons / Helstar / Black Mirrors / Psychonaut / Cowboys & Aliens / Deserted Fear / Carnation / Miava / Fifth Angel / Wolvennest / Crystal Lake - Official / Fire Down Below / Hemelbestormer / Maudlin / Alkerdeel / Vio-Lence / Tangled Horns / Speedözer / An Evening With Knives / The Spirit (DE) Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Jul 27, 2019
La Muerte / Cowboys & Aliens / For I Am King / Carneia / Tangled Horns / Dead Letter Box Rockelingen Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Jun 15, 2018
Cowboys & Aliens Charlatan Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
Sep 24, 2016
Dopelord / Weedpecker / Cowboys & Aliens / Gomer Pyle / Pendejo
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Baroeg Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Oct 11, 2014
Cowboys & Aliens

Desertfest Belgium

Trix Zaal Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
Jul 26, 2014
Cowboys & Aliens

Rock Im Wald

Waldstadion Neuensee Michelau, Germany

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Alcatraz Open Air 2026 on Aug 6, 2026 [566-small]

Alcatraz Open Air 2026
Aug 6 - 9, 2026
 Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Alcatraz Open Air 2026
Aug 6 - 9, 2026
 Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 6 - 9, 2026
 Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Grensrock 2026 on Jun 26, 2026 [881-small]

Grensrock 2026
Jun 26 - 27, 2026
 Menen, Flanders, Belgium
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Alcatraz Metal Festival 2021
Aug 13 - 15, 2021
 Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Alcatraz Metal Festival 2021
Aug 13 - 15, 2021
 Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Genres:

Rock
Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Psychedelic
Stoner Rock
Sludge Metal
Doom Metal
Stoner Metal
Space Rock
Stoner
Psychedelic Doom
Alternative Roots Rock
Retro Metal
Belgian Stoner Rock
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Latest Setlist (08/07/2026):

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  1. Life Tree
  2. Rabbit Hole
  3. Find You Soon
  4. Boy in the Middle
  5. Let Me Walk You Home
  6. Sheep Bloody Sheep
  7. Icy Grip
  8. Ghost in My Speaker
  9. Blow Your Past (to Smithereens)
  10. Simple Things
  11. Gardenia

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 4 concerts
2025 3 concerts
2024 1 concert
2022 3 concerts
2021 3 concerts
2019 2 concerts
2018 1 concert
2016 1 concert
2014 4 concerts
2013 2 concerts
2012 2 concerts
2011 2 concerts
2006 3 concerts
2005 3 concerts
2004 2 concerts
2002 2 concerts
2001 2 concerts
2000 3 concerts
1999 1 concert
1997 2 concerts

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