CHANNEL ZERO

The biggest, most famous, most successful and influential Belgian metal band Channel Zero recently announced that they are calling it quits. This group, founded in 1990 around singer Franky De Smet-Van Damme and bassist Tino DeMartino, will be on stage for the last time in December 2026 at the AB in Brussels, the venue that the band sold out six times in a row during CZ’s comeback in 2010. In the Netherlands, this celebrated band will say goodbye to its fans at South Of Heaven with an NL exclusive concert: the very last chance to see them here! The band made their international breakthrough in 1995 with the album ‘Unsafe’ and their successor ‘Black Fuel’ from 1997 was also a bull’s eye. This allowed the group to tour the world with big names such as Megadeth, Danzig, Biohazard and Body Count. At the height of their success, in 1997, the band members announced their split. After that, Channel Zero disappeared from the stage for more than a decade. Until the band announced a reunion concert in the AB in 2010. In 2013, drummer Phil Baheux unexpectedly died of a ruptured artery. A farewell concert at the Brussels Summer Festival spontaneously led to more AB shows, and performances at festivals such as Graspop and Rock Werchter. Frontman Franky De Smet-Van Damme: “It has been a hell of a ride. Channel Zero has given me so much as a person and an artist. But you also have to dare to end things at their peak. And that is what we are going to do, together with the band, the entire crew and the fans.”